chamilo lms
1.11.28
Chamilo is an e-learning platform, also called "LMS", published under the GNU/GPLv3+ license. It has been used by more than 30M people worldwide since its inception in 2010. This is a development version. For the current stable branch, please select the 1.11.x branch in the Code tab.
Chamilo 2.0 is still in development. This installation procedure below is for reference only. For a stable Chamilo, please install Chamilo 1.11.x. See the 1.11.x branch's README.md for details.
We assume you already have:
composer 2.x - https://getcomposer.org/download/
yarn +4.x - https://yarnpkg.com/getting-started/install
Node >= v18+ (lts) - https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md
Configuring a virtualhost in a domain, not in a sub folder inside a domain.
A working LAMP/WAMP server with PHP 8.1+
You will need PHP8+ and NodeJS v18+ to run Chamilo 2. On a fresh Ubuntu 22.04, you can prepare your server by issuing an apt command like the following with sudo (or as root, but not recommended for security reasons):
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo apt -y install ca-certificates curl gnupg software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt update
sudo apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php8.1 mariadb-client mariadb-server php-pear php8.1-{dev,gd,curl,intl,mysql,mbstring,zip,xml,cli,apcu,bcmath,soap} git unzipIf you already have nodejs installed, check the version with node -vOtherwise, install node 18 or above:
following the instructions here: https://deb.nodesource.com/node_20.x/. The following lines use a static version of those instructions, so probably not very sustainable over time
cd ~ curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg NODE_MAJOR=20 echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_$NODE_MAJOR.x nodistro main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list apt update && apt -y install nodejs
Other option to install nodejs is by using NVM (Node Version Manager). You can install it following the instructions here. Then, you can install the node version required. Preferably, the LTS version.
sudo nvm install --lts sudo nvm use --lts
With NodeJS installed, you must enable corepack and then continue with the requirements
sudo corepack enable cd ~ # follow the instructions at https://getcomposer.org/download/ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer # optionally, you might want this: sudo apt install libapache2-mod-xsendfile sudo a2enmod rewrite ssl headers expires sudo systemctl restart apache2
When your system is all set, you can use the following:
cd /var/www git clone https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms.git chamilo2 cd chamilo2 composer install # not recommended to do this as the root user! # when asked whether you want to execute the recipes or install plugins for some of the components, # you can safely type 'n' (for 'no'). yarn set version stable # delete yarn.lock as it might contain restrictive packages from a different context yarn up yarn install yarn dev # you can safely ignore any "warning" mentioned by yarn dev sudo touch .env sudo chown -R www-data: var/ .env config/
In your web server configuration, ensure you allow for the interpretation of .htaccess (AllowOverride all and Require all granted), and point the DocumentRoot to the public/ subdirectory.
Once the above is ready, enter the main/install/index.php and follow the UI instructions (database, admin user settings, etc).
After the web install process, change the permissions back to a reasonably safe state:
chown -R root .env config/
If you have already installed it and just want to update it from Git, do:
git pull composer install # Database update php bin/console doctrine:schema:update --force --complete # Clean Symfony cache php bin/console cache:clear # js/css update yarn install yarn dev
Note for developers in pre-alpha stage: the doctrine command will try to update your database schema to the expected database schema in a fresh installation. This is not always perfect, as Doctrine will take the fastest route to do this. For example, if you have a migration to rename a table (which would apply just fine to a system in Chamilo 1 being migrated), Doctrine might consider that the destination table does not exist and the original (which should not be there in a new installation) is still there, so it will just drop the old table and create a new one, losing all records in that table in the process. To avoid this, prefer executing migrations with the following instead.
php bin/console doctrine:migrations:execute "ChamiloCoreBundleMigrationsSchemaV200Version[date]"
This will respect the migration logic and do the required data processing.
This will update the JS (yarn) and PHP (composer) dependencies in the public/build folder.
Sometimes there are conflicts with existing files so to avoid those here are some hints :
for composer errors you can remove the vendor folder and composer.lock file
for yarn erros you can remove yarn.lock .yarn/cache/* node_modules/*
when opening Chamilo, it does not load, then you can delete var/cache/*
In case you believe some settings in Chamilo might not have been processed correctly based on an incomplete migration or a migration that was added after you installed your development version of Chamilo, the URL /admin/settings_sync is built to try and fix that automatically by updating PHP classes based on the database state. This issue rarely happens, though.
If you have it installed in a dev environment and feel like you should clean it up completely (might be necessary after changes to the database), you can do so by:
Removing the .env file
Load the {url}/main/install/index.php script again
The database should be automatically destroyed, table by table. In some extreme cases (a previous version created a table that is not necessary anymore and creates issues), you might want to clean it completely by just dropping it, but this shouldn't be necessary most of the time.
If, for some reason, you have issues with either composer or yarn, a good first step is to delete completely the vendor/ folder (for composer) or the node_modules/ folder (for yarn).
If you are a developer and want to contribute to Chamilo in the current development branch (not stable yet), then please follow the instructions below. Please bear in mind that the development version is NOT COMPLETE at this time, and many features are just not working yet. This is because we are working on root components that require massive changes to the structure of the code, files and database. As such, to get a working version, you might need to completely uninstall and re-install from time to time. You've been warned.
First, apply the procedure described here: Managing CSS and JavaScript in Chamilo (in particular, make sure you follow the given links to install all the necessary components on your computer).
Then make sure your database supports large prefixes (see this Stack Overflow thread if you use MySQL < 5.7 or MariaDB < 10.2.2).
Load the (your-domain)/main/install/index.php URL to start the installer (which is very similar to the installer in previous versions). If the installer is pure-HTML and doesn't appear with a clean layout, that's because you didn't follow these instructions carefully. Go back to the beginning of this section and try again.
If you want hot reloading for assets use the command yarn run encore dev-server. This will refresh automatically
your assets when you modify them under assets/vue. Access your chamilo instance as usual. In the background, this will serve
assets from a custom server on http://localhost:8080. Do not access this url directly since
Encore is in charge of changing url assets as needed.
You might want to support PHP 8.1 (for Chamilo 2) and PHP 7.4 (for all other things) on the same server simultaneously. On Ubuntu, you could do it this way:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
sudo apt update
sudo apt install php8.1 libapache2-mod-php7.4 php8.1-{modules} php7.4-{modules}
sudo apt remove libapache2-mod-php8.1 php7.4-fpm
sudo a2enmod proxy_fcgi
sudo vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/[your-chamilo2-vhost].confIn the vhost configuration, make sure you set PHP 8.1 FPM to answer this single vhost by adding, somewhere between your
