Install Moodle, Nginx and MariaDB on Ubuntu

InstallMoodleNginxMariaDBonUbuntu.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Install Moodle, Nginx and MariaDB on Debian/Ubuntu
# (c) 2020 Benjamin 'Benno' Falkner

set -e # halt on error, debug
cat <<EOF
Install Moodle with Nginx and MariaDB
(c) 2020 Benjamin 'Benno' Falkner (MIT-License) 
EOF

## Settings
# all settings are in this section
URL=moodle.host.local      # change !!!!

### DB (MariaDB)
DB=mariadb                   # do not change
DB_NAME=moodle               # DB Name 
DB_USER=moodle_user          # DB User
DB_PASSWD=$(date +%s | sha256sum | base64 | head -c 32 ; echo)       # DB Password - change this!!!!

### MOODLE
MOODLE_TGZ=https://download.moodle.org/download.php/direct/stable310/moodle-latest-310.tgz  # check for newer versions on https://download.moodle.org/releases/latest/
MOODLE_DIR=/var/www/moodle
MOODLE_USER=www-data                # must exist and be member of www-data
MOODLE_DATA_DIR=/var/moodledata

## Run - Do not change below this line
help(){
    cat <<EOF
usage:  InstallMoodleNginxMariaDBonUbuntu.sh <args>
    -u= --url=[url]          set url for server (default: $URL)
    -v  --verbose            verbose mode
    other switches are not listed
EOF
}

# Read arguments 
for i in "$@"; do
case $i in
    -u=*|--url=*) URL="${i#*=}"; shift;;

    --db-name=*) DB_NAME="${i#*=}"; shift;;
    --db-user=*) DB_USER="${i#*=}"; shift;;
    --db-password=*) DB_PASSWD="${i#*=}"; shift;;

    --moodle-source=*) MOODLE_TGZ="${i#*=}"; shift;;
    --moodle-directory=*) MOODLE_DIR="${i#*=}"; shift;;
    --moodle-user=*) MOODLE_USER="${i#*=}"; shift;;
    --moodle-data=*) MOODLE_DATA_DIR="${i#*=}"; shift;;

    -v|--verbose) set -x; shift;;
    -h|--help) help; shift;;
    *) ;;# unknown option;;
esac
done

### Update
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install php-fpm php-common php-mysql php-gmp php-curl php-intl php-mbstring php-soap php-xmlrpc php-gd php-xml php-cli php-zip
sudo systemctl restart php-fpm

### Install Nginx
sudo apt-get install nginx

sudo sh -c "cat > /etc/nginx/sites-available/$URL" <<EOF
server{
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    server_name $URL;
    root        $MOODLE_DIR;
    index       index.php index.html index.htm;

    error_log /var/log/nginx/${URL}_error.log;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/${URL}_access.log;

    client_max_body_size 100M;

    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    location /dataroot/ {
        internal;
        alias $MOODLE_DATA_DIR;
    }


    location ~ ^(.+\.php)(.*)$ {
        fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(.*)$;
        fastcgi_index           index.php;
        fastcgi_pass            unix:/run/php/php-fpm.sock;
        #include                 /etc/nginx/mime.types;
        include                 fastcgi_params;
        fastcgi_param           PATH_INFO       \$fastcgi_path_info;
        fastcgi_param           SCRIPT_FILENAME \$document_root\$fastcgi_script_name;
    }
}
EOF


## Install and configure MariaDB
sudo apt-get install mariadb-server
sudo mysql_secure_installation

cat << EOF | sudo mysql -u root -p 
    CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS $DB_NAME default character set utf8;
    CREATE USER IF NOT EXISTS '$DB_USER'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$DB_PASSWD';
    GRANT ALL ON $DB_NAME.* TO '$DB_USER'@'localhost';
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EOF

## Install Moodle
wget -c $MOODLE_TGZ
sudo tar -zxf $(basename $MOODLE_TGZ) -C $(dirname $MOODLE_DIR)/
rm -rf $(basename $MOODLE_TGZ)


sudo chown $MOODLE_USER:www-data -R $MOODLE_DIR
sudo chmod 775 -R $MOODLE_DIR

sudo mkdir -p $MOODLE_DATA_DIR
sudo chmod 775 -R $MOODLE_DATA_DIR
sudo chown $MOODLE_USER:www-data -R  $MOODLE_DATA_DIR


cd $MOODLE_DIR
sudo cp config-dist.php config.php

# ed based config editing (ugly but easy)
sudo ed  config.php << EOF
/\$CFG->dbtype
c
\$CFG->dbtype    = '$DB';      // 'pgsql', 'mariadb', 'mysqli', 'sqlsrv' or 'oci'
.
/\$CFG->dblibrary
c
\$CFG->dblibrary = 'native';     // 'native' only at the moment
.
/\$CFG->dbhost
c
\$CFG->dbhost    = 'localhost';  // eg 'localhost' or 'db.isp.com' or IP
.
/\$CFG->dbname
c
\$CFG->dbname    = '$DB_NAME';     // database name, eg moodle
.
/\$CFG->dbuser
c
\$CFG->dbuser    = '$DB_USER';   // your database username
.
/\$CFG->dbpass
c
\$CFG->dbpass    = '$DB_PASSWD';   // your database password
.
/\$CFG->prefix
c
\$CFG->prefix    = 'mdl_';       // prefix to use for all table names
.
/\$CFG->wwwroot
c
\$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://$URL';
.
/\$CFG->dataroot
c
\$CFG->dataroot  = '$MOODLE_DATA';
.
wq
EOF

sudo chown $MOODLE_USER:www-data -R $MOODLE_DIR
sudo chmod 775 -R $MOODLE_DIR

## enable all
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/$URL /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/$URL
sudo nginx -t
sudo systemctl reload nginx

please add cloudflare or let's encrypt ssl support.

root@kb:~# ./mo.sh
Install Moodle with Nginx and MariaDB
(c) 2020 Benjamin 'Benno' Falkner (MIT-License)
./mo.sh: 52: Syntax error: ";" unexpected

root@kb:~# ./mo.sh
Install Moodle with Nginx and MariaDB
(c) 2020 Benjamin 'Benno' Falkner (MIT-License)
./mo.sh: 52: Syntax error: ";" unexpected

should be working now. called help with brackets.