What you need for this book

For Moodle, you must have the following components up and running on your server:

  • Database: MySQL (version 5.0.25 or later, with InnoDB storage engine acvivated), PostgreSQL (version 8.3 or later), Microsoft SQL Server (version 2005 or later), or Oracle (version 10.2 or later)
  • Web server: Apache is the preferred web server
  • PHP: PHP 5.3.3 is required to run Moodle
  • PHP extensions: Moodle makes use of a number of PHP extensions, most of which are compiled into PHP, by default

Depending on your specific setup, additional software and hardware might be required.

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