Editing Ubuntu (section)

== 4 Specific Moodle requirements==
Moodle needs to store files in a specific directory accessible only by the web server. It also needs to change some php configuration settings and set up a cron task. This could be done using a text editor but echo and sed, a text replacement tool, simplifies the process.

* Create the moodledata directory outside your web server's document root  
* Set the owner and group recursively to the webserver for moodledata
* Set the  moodledata directory permissions so only the web server can read, write, and access them.
* Set the  moodledata file permissions so only the web server can read and write them.
* Set file permissions for the moodle directory to read, write and execute for all during the install
* Set the maximum number of input variables that PHP will accept in a single request in the php.ini config files in /etc/php/8.3/apache2 and /etc/php/8.3/cli 
* Call the cron.php in the moodle admin directory to run every minute



 
 sudo mkdir -p /var/www/moodledata
 sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/moodledata
 sudo find /var/www/moodledata -type d -exec chmod 700 {} \; 
 sudo find /var/www/moodledata -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;
 sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/moodle
 sudo sed -i 's/.*max_input_vars =.*/max_input_vars = 5000/' /etc/php/8.3/apache2/php.ini
 sudo sed -i 's/.*max_input_vars =.*/max_input_vars = 5000/' /etc/php/8.3/cli/php.ini
 sudo sed -i 's/.*post_max_size =.*/post_max_size = 256M/' /etc/php/8.3/apache2/php.ini
 sudo sed -i 's/.*post_max_size =.*/post_max_size = 256M/' /etc/php/8.3/cli/php.ini
 sudo sed -i 's/.*upload_max_filesize =.*/upload_max_filesize = 256M/' /etc/php/8.3/apache2/php.ini
 sudo sed -i 's/.*upload_max_filesize =.*/upload_max_filesize = 256M/' /etc/php/8.3/cli/php.ini
 echo "* * * * * /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/moodle/admin/cli/cron.php >/dev/null" | crontab -u www-data -