Building your first e-Learning Platform for free

DAY 20 - Building your first e-Learning Platform for free - Day Twenty

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Every content creator is a teacher.

Why e-learning?

E-Learning provides scalability which helps in providing training. All students can receive the same type of syllabus, study materials and train through E-Learning. Through E-Learning, you can save time, money and reduced transportation cost. so, E-Learning is cost-effective compared to traditional learning.

Why Moodle?

The world’s most customisable and trusted open source learning management system.

• It is reliable and secure
• Open Source allows organisations to control their own data
• Flexible and customisable

Lets build your first e-Learning site

Pre-requisite

You can use any public cloud provider or On-Premises to run this code. But as we mention FREE , we will be using AWS Cloud Free Tier option.

• Launch a ubuntu EC2 (t2.micro if you want to use free version). This Script is tested successfully on Ubuntu 20.04
• Open ports 80(HTTP), 443(HTTPS), 22(SSH)
• A Database [RDS recommended],Get your DB Credentials. , if you don't know how to create RDS , Follow this Tutorial
• git installed on server

Setup Infrastucture

• Launch EC2 from AWS console

If you are familiar with Terraform here is IAAC for launching this instance

terraform {
  required_providers {
    aws = {
      source = "hashicorp/aws"
      version = "4.5.0"
    }
  }
}

provider "aws" {
 region = "enter-your-desired-region"
}

resource "aws_security_group" "moodlesg" {
  name        = "moodlesg"
  description = "Allow  inbound traffic for Moodle server"


  ingress {
    description      = "HTTPS"
    from_port        = 443
    to_port          = 443
    protocol         = "tcp"
    cidr_blocks      = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
    ipv6_cidr_blocks = ["::/0"]
  }
  ingress {
    description      = "HTTP"
    from_port        = 80
    to_port          = 80
    protocol         = "tcp"
    cidr_blocks      = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
    ipv6_cidr_blocks = ["::/0"]
  }
    ingress {
    description      = "SSH"
    from_port        = 22
    to_port          = 22
    protocol         = "tcp"
    cidr_blocks      = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
    ipv6_cidr_blocks = ["::/0"]
  }
  egress {
    from_port        = 0
    to_port          = 0
    protocol         = "-1"
    cidr_blocks      = ["0.0.0.0/0"]
    ipv6_cidr_blocks = ["::/0"]
  }

  tags = {
    Name = "Moodle-SecurityGroup"
  }
}

resource "aws_instance" "MoodleEc2" {
  depends_on = [
      aws_security_group.moodlesg
      ]
  ami           = "ami-0b7dcd6e6fd797935"
  instance_type = "t2.micro"
  security_groups = [ "moodlesg" ]
  key_name = "your-key-name"
  tags = {
    Name = "Moodle-APP-Server"
  }

}

• SSH into server
  • Use putty , here is an awesome tutorial by Mukesh from dev community

Basic Installation

• Get sudo privilages

sudo su -

• Get the code

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anuvindhs/GFS-Moo/main/install.sh 

• Change permission to install

chmod u+x install.sh 

• Install

./install.sh

• Type 3 and press enter

Now sit back and relax, the script will automatically install Apache Server, MYSQL DB, PHP and Moodle 3.11 from git.

Now if you go to the public ip of your server (which will show once the script complete), you will be able to see the Moodle installed on a lamp server.

You can either setup Moodle using the RDS or you can setup a local SQL server as its a LAMP.

🎉Congratulations🎉 on your e-learning platform , build a better future with a smile.

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