Install Chamilo On CentOS 7/6/5

Chamilo is a free and open source e-learning management system designed and developed for improving access to education and knowledge globally. It is a fully-fledged e-learning system which is easy to use. Chamilo is absolutely free and comes under GPL License, with Chamilo you can store and organize all of study materials which can be utilized by tutors and students.

Features:

Step #1 Install LAMP Server

LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. A “LAMP” stack is a gathering of open source software that is normally installed together to enable a server to host dynamic sites and web applications. Install repository according to your system architecture.

CentOS/RHEL 7, 64 Bit:
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/x86_64/e/epel-release-7-5.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-7.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 6, 32 Bit:
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm 

CentOS/RHEL 6, 64 Bit:
# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm 

CentOS/RHEL 5, 32 Bit:
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm

CentOS/RHEL 5, 64 Bit:
# rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-releas5-4.noarch.rpm
# rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-5.rpm

Now install LAMP using following command:

# yum --enablerepo=remi install httpd mysql mysql-server php php-common php-cli php-mysql php-devel

Now install other required PHP packages:

# yum --enablerepo=remi install php-session php-zlib php-pcre php-xml php-json php-mcrypt php-mbstring php-gd php-intl php-ctype php-ldap php-xapian php-curl php-xsl

After the installation start services using following command:

CentOS/RHEL 7:
# systemctl start httpd
# systemctl enable httpd
# systemctl start mysql
# systemctl enable mysqld

CentOS/RHEL 6/5:
# service httpd start
# chkconfig httpd on
# service mysqld start
# chkconfig mysqld on

Step #2 PHP configuration

Add following lines in PHP configuration file:

# vim /etc/php.ini

date.timezone = 'Asia/Kolkata'
max_execution_time = 300
max_input_time = 600
memory_limit = 256M
post_max_size = 100M
upload_max_filesize = 100M
short_open_tag = Off
safe_mode = Off
magic_quotes_gpc = Off
magic_quotes_runtime = Off
session.cookie_httponly = On

Step #3 Download and Extract Chamilo

Download latest version of Chamilo using following command:

# cd /var/www/html
# wget https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/archive/v1.10.0.zip
# unzip v1.10.0.zip

Move to your web directory and change permission

#  mv chamilo-lms-1.10.0/ /var/www/html/chamilo
# chmod -R /var/www/html/chamilo
# chown -R apache: /var/www/html/chamilo

Step #4 Install Chamilo

Now run below URL in web browser:

http://IP_Address/chamilo
OR
http://localhost/chamilo

Click to Install chamilo to start the Chamilo installaion:

Select language you wants to prefer and Click Next:

System will check all of the required dependencies, proceed for next step and Click New Installation:

Accept License Agreement and proceed to next step:

The install script will create the Chamilo main database. Now provide your database name and user credentials and click Next:

All the value’s will be store in “configuration.php” file. Give all required details and Click next:

Now verify your details and proceed to installation.

Now installation process has been started.

Let the installation process be complete and login to portal.

Enjoy it!