How to Install Chamilo LMS 1.11.8v on CentOS 7.6

Installation Of Chamilo LMS 1.11.8 On CentOS 7.6

Features:

**It has course management, user and authentication, and enrollment, allowing students to easily post to site, use hashtags, view and edit posts from any device. It also supports WYSIWYG with strong privacy settings to create space for individuals to share personal thoughts with groups or other users.**

Pre-requisites:

LAMP Stack

PHP Modules :

php-session,php-mysql,php-mbstring,php-zlib,php-pcre,php-xml php-json php-mcrypt php-iconv php-gd php-intl php-ctype,php-ldap php-xapian php-curl php-xsl

Download Link :

https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/releases/download/v1.11.8/chamilo-1.11.8-php7.zip

Installation

Before you begin, configure MariaDB for Chamilo LMS using root password.

[root@linuxhelp ~]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MariaDB monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MariaDB connection id is 168
Server version: 5.5.60-MariaDB MariaDB Server

Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others.
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

MariaDB [(none)]> create database chamilo character set utf8mb4;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [(none)]> use chamilo;
Database changed

MariaDB [chamilo]> create user chamilouser@localhost identified by 'linuxc';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)

MariaDB [chamilo]> grant all on chamilo.* to chamilouser@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [chamilo]> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [chamilo]> exit
Bye

And then, change the directory to Apache’s Document root directory.

**[root@linuxhelp ~]# cd /var/www**

List the contents with the following command.

[root@linuxhelp www]# ll
total 351060
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root         6 Nov  5 07:17 cgi-bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 359484067 Aug 15  2018 chamilo-1.11.8-php7.zip
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root        22 Apr 15 11:10 html

After that, check the disk usage of Chamilo LMS.

[root@linuxhelp www]# du -h -s chamilo-1.11.8-php7.zip
343M	chamilo-1.11.8-php7.zip

Create a directory for Chamilo LMS.

[root@linuxhelp www]# mkdir chamilo

Extract the zip file of Chamilo LMS.

[root@linuxhelp www]# unzip chamilo-1.11.8-php7.zip -d chamilo
Archive:  chamilo-1.11.8-php7.zip
   creating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/
  inflating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/news_list.php  
  inflating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/composer.lock  
  inflating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/.travis.yml  
  inflating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/whoisonlinesession.php  
  inflating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/whoisonline.php  
  inflating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/favicon.ico  
  inflating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/user.php  
.
.
.
.
inflating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/license.txt  
 extracting: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/main/img/icons/22/statistics_na.png  
  inflating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/main/img/icons/48/statistics_na.png  
  inflating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/main/img/icons/32/statistics_na.png  
  inflating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/main/img/icons/64/statistics_na.png  
  inflating: chamilo/chamilo-1.11.8-php7/main/img/icons/128/statistics_na.png

Change the directory to Chamilo Directory.

[root@linuxhelp www]# cd chamilo

List the Contents.

[root@linuxhelp chamilo]# ll
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Aug 15  2018 chamilo-1.11.8-php7

Rename the directory to final.

[root@linuxhelp chamilo]# mv chamilo-1.11.8-php7/ final

Change the directory to final.

[root@linuxhelp chamilo]# cd final/

Set ownership permissions to final directory.

[root@linuxhelp final]# chown -R apache. ./

Set Writable permissions to the final directory.

[root@linuxhelp final]# chmod -R 775 ./

List the contents in the final directory to check the permissions assigned.

[root@linuxhelp final]# ll
total 520
drwxrwxr-x 11 apache apache    295 Aug 15  2018 app
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   5799 Aug 15  2018 apple-touch-icon.png
drwxrwxr-x  2 apache apache     26 Aug 15  2018 bin
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   1062 Aug 15  2018 bower.json
drwxrwxr-x  2 apache apache     23 Aug 15  2018 certificates
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   1146 Aug 15  2018 cli-config.php
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   1715 Aug 15  2018 codesize.xml
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   4931 Aug 15  2018 composer.json
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache 375041 Aug 15  2018 composer.lock
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   5487 Aug 15  2018 CONTRIBUTING.md
drwxrwxr-x  4 apache apache    309 Aug 15  2018 custompages
drwxrwxr-x  2 apache apache   4096 Aug 15  2018 documentation
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   2462 Aug 15  2018 favicon.ico
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   7210 Aug 15  2018 index.php
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache  35147 Aug 15  2018 LICENSE
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   1614 Aug 15  2018 license.txt
drwxrwxr-x 56 apache apache   4096 Aug 15  2018 main
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache    893 Aug 15  2018 news_list.php
drwxrwxr-x 49 apache apache   4096 Aug 15  2018 plugin
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   7643 Aug 15  2018 README.md
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache    748 Aug 15  2018 robots.txt
drwxrwxr-x  3 apache apache     21 Aug 15  2018 src
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   1151 Aug 15  2018 user.php
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache  11499 Aug 15  2018 user_portal.php
drwxrwxr-x 66 apache apache   4096 Aug 15  2018 vendor
drwxrwxr-x  4 apache apache     31 Aug 15  2018 web
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   4745 Aug 15  2018 web.config
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   2004 Aug 15  2018 whoisonline.php
-rwxrwxr-x  1 apache apache   4037 Aug 15  2018 whoisonlinesession.php

Configure the following settings inside the php.ini file.

[root@linuxhelp final]# vim /etc/php.ini
max_execution_time=300
max_input_time=600
memory_limit=256M
post_max_size=100M
upload_max_filesize=100
short_open_tag=off
safe_mode=off
magic_quotes_gpc=Off
magic_quotes_runtime=off
data.timezone=”Your-timezone”

Configure virtual hosting for Chamilo LMS as follows:

[root@linuxhelp final]# vim /etc/httpd/conf.d/chamilo.conf
<virtualhost *:80>
servername www.linuxhelp1.com
documentroot /var/www/chamilo/final/

<directory /var/www/chamilo/final/>
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</virtualhost>

Once all the above procedure is completed, restart the service of Apache.

[root@linuxhelp final]# systemctl restart httpd

Open the Browser and enter the servername to access the Chamilo LMS.

In the welcome page of Chamilo 1.11.8, Click on Install Chamilo. Choose the language and click Next. After Checking the requirements, click New Installation. Accept the license terms of Chamilo LMS. Enroll the Company information and Click Next to proceed further. Enter the database details that had Configured inside the MariaDB. Enroll the admin credentials and information. Enroll the portal information and click Next Click Install Chamilo after finishing the last check. Installation Of Chamilo LMS was successful. Enter the login credentials of Chamilo LMS and click login to view the dashboard of Admin's account. Go to HomePage, click Edit Profile to Change the password and save settings. Therefore, the installation of Chamilo LMS on CentOS 7.6 Comes to end.