Moodling: First steps: (L)AMP

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. These are the software you need to install in your system before you can run moodle. For Windows users like me (not by choice, mind you), we drop the Linux and we have AMP.

Actually, there is a download at www.moodle.org called EasyPHP Version 1.7. which takes care of installing AMP, as well as the setup instructions.

I got around to installing AMP with Easy PHP 1.7 easily. One beef I had though was that the buttons were not in English. This is a small detail that I could easily go around to. Besides, the instructions are pretty clear, up to this point.

When I got to around the setup, I got stumped when I was setting up the config.php file. I followed the instructions but had a message saying that i had an error in line 57. It was a bit frustrating. i got friend to look at it and at first, he was stumped. He made some changes and apparently, it was my folder name for EasyPHP. It was supposed to be EasyPHP 1.7, not just EasyPHP.

Did I find it easy installing. Yes it was easy.

Now the hard part comes. Preparing a course in moodle.