Paul Verrall's Blog

Why the need for another 'Installing Moodle' guide? Two reasons, Systemd and SELinux. The steps are presented as a Bash script, which may be run on a virgin system, installing a complete working Moodle stack in one go, including enforcing SELinux. In addition to the absolute basics it also includes adding ClamAV virus for file uploads and Memcached for sessions and 'MUC'. It does not cover any extras you will need to get your site up to production, e.g. securing your database  or updating your virus definitions automatically. Neither does it do any extra PHP configuration (upload limits, execution time etc.) or any extra complexities that might be desirable. For all of this you should goto  docs.moodle.org .

I've occasionally wondered if it was at all practical to run a small functional Moodle site using just a Raspberry Pi and whenever I've been half tempted to try I've came to the swift conclusion that the answer was most likely 'No'; and I think this is still probably the case today. We are now however in the brave new era of the Raspberry Pi 2 where we have more cpus and RAM to play with, and after my friend Moodle Fairy asked if it was at all possible or indeed worthwhile to do such a thing I decided it was time to give it a real shot and put to task my experience in optimising Moodle at work hosting a Moodle site on the decidedly lightweight Pi 2. So what is the answer? Can you run a useful Moodle on a raspberry Pi 2? Well, yes you can! And not only that I have been rather impressed with the sites overall performance which has exceed all reasonable expectations. Your average page load time is well under a second. Rather than go into more details her...