Installing Moodle on AWS LightSail

InstallingMoodleonAWSLightSail.md

Installing Moodle on AWS LightSail

Start with a new LightSail Instance running Ubuntu 20.04

• Update

sudo apt update

• Install Apache

sudo apt-get install apache2

• Install PHP and required extensions

sudo apt-get install php7.4
sudo apt-get install php-mysql
sudo apt-get install php-xml
sudo apt-get install php-iconv
sudo apt-get install php-mbstring
sudo apt-get install php-curl
sudo apt-get install php-xmlrpc
sudo apt-get install php-soap
sudo apt-get install php-ctype
sudo apt-get install php-zip
sudo apt-get install php-gd
sudo apt-get install php-simplexml
sudo apt-get install php-spl
sudo apt-get install php-pcre
sudo apt-get install php-dom
sudo apt-get install php-fpm
sudo a2enmod proxy_fcgi setenvif
sudo a2enconf php7.4-fpm
sudo apt-get install php7.4-intl
sudo apt-get install php-json
sudo systemctl reload apache2

• Create data directory

cd /var/www/
sudo mkdir data
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data data
sudo chmod a+w data

• Download Moodle and extract

cd /tmp
wget https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable310/moodle-3.10.tgz
cd /var/www/
sudo mv html html-orig
sudo tar xfvz /tmp/moodle-3.10.tgz 
sudo mv moodle html
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data html

Setup certbot and get new SSL certificate

• How To Secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu
• Check your SSL cert at SSLLabs

wget https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable403/moodle-latest-403.tgz for latest release