
Hosting services vary quite a lot in the way they work. Here you can find steps for an IIS: Windows installation for XAMPP or Windows 2003.
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Go here for a Step-by-step Guide for Installing Moodle on Mac OS X 10.4 Client (not server). Both of the pages below come with good instructions that we won't duplicate here: It is possible to use the Apache server that Apple provides, and add PHP and MySQL using Marc Liyanage's packages. EasyPHP may be a good option again once its version 2.0 is released. Also many menus for EasyPHP are still in French. Note that the EasyPHP 1.8 uses older versions of the software that are too old for Moodle 1.6.
#MAMP TO AMP INSTALL#
Instead of using a Complete install package you can also install XAMPP and Moodle separately as explained on the page Windows_installation_using_XAMPP.

and type the command "c:/moodle/server/service.exe -install" into Open box. In order to make starting Moodle more convenient in the future you could install the web and database servers as Windows services that are started automatically. But first a web server has to be started. Most Moodlers will have one or more "localhost" links on their computer installed in "Favorites" or even as a browser's default opening screen. There are lots of ways to start a Moodle after an install. The complete install package page has detailed instructions for a Windows installation using XAMPP.
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This will download a 50-70 meg zip file that contains everything you need. Click on the download link in the rightmost column. On the Windows packages download page, choose the version you would like. Installing Moodle for the first time on a Localhost (a stand alone computer) is easy and can be a very useful tool even if a web based production Moodle Server is available for use. Once these are installed the standard Installation guide should be fairly straightforward.Ī more detailed walkthrough is here: RedHat Linux installation Windows - XAMPP One package that people frequently forget is the php-mysql package which is necessary for PHP to talk to MySQL. You should install all available RPM packages for Apache, PHP and MySQL. See also Step-by-step Guide for Installing Moodle on Mac OS X 10.4 Client. This will use the web server that comes preinstalled with every Mac Computer. See below if you want a secure, public server with OS X. Please use the correct version for your processor.

You will find versions for Intel based Macs and for older PPC based Macs. Several versions of the complete install package are available. These packages allow Moodle to be installed, along with the prerequisites that includes a web server, database and scripting language (Apache, MySQL and PHP in this case). These do not have sufficient security for public, production servers-only use for private, local testing purposes.
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