Installing Moodle In Xampp – Info PHP
Moodle is an open source E-Learning management system. Moodle is written in PHP. PHP must be installed properly in your system in order to make MOODLE work properly.
System Requirements to install MOODLE:
- Minimum 256 mb RAM required for the installation(512 mb recommended).
- Minimum 160 MB available disk space.Space depends upon the number of user uploads.
- Atleast windows 98 OS is required for the installation.
Steps to install MOODLE on your system are as follows:
Step 1: Open and download the latest version of moodle for windows. MOODLE installer would be downloaded as a ZIP file.
Step 2: As soon as the ZIP file is downloaded,copy the Zip file and place at some place where the files can be extracted.
Step 3:
When the file is extracted, the process creates three files named as Start Moodle,Stop Moodle and a subfolder named Server.Start the server now.
Step 4:
Type localhost on your Web Browser.As soon as you type localhost on your web browser you will find following install page being opened on your system.

Step 5: Kindly select your preffered language from the installation window and press Next.
Step 6: To run moodle properly,server has some criterias which they follow before installation.Server check for some tests.

Step 7:
After the completion of the various tests by server,you can now press Next Button.Here I am going to use the moodle installation for local testing therefore i will be using ‘http://localhost” .

Click Next to continue.
Step 8: Now a new window will appear where we have to configure the database setting to store the moodle data.Here write username and password on this window.

Step 9: A new window will open which will check the server that has been installed.


Press Next Button then Press Continue.
Step 10:
Moodle Copyright window will appear.Press YES after reading the agreements.You will find that continuously windows will appear and you have to press Continue each time the window appears with a continue button.
Step 11: At last a admisnistration window will appear.Click on Save to continue.
Step 12: A last window will appear like below:

When we will click on Save Changes button, it will be redirected to Moodle sites Home page.
Now the process of installing Moodle is being completed. Type http://localhost in your web browser and the moodle will be opened.
Note: We can configure moodle according to our needs.
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