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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.**
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):
* Other option to install nodejs is by using NVM (Node Version Manager). You can install it following the instructions [here](https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#installing-and-updating).
Then, you can install the node version required. Preferably, the LTS version.
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sudo nvm install --lts
sudo nvm use --lts
~~~~
With NodeJS installed, you must enable corepack and then continue with the requirements
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.
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:
* 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).
## Development setup (Dev environment, stable environment not yet available)
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](assets/README.md) (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](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43379717/how-to-enable-large-index-in-mariadb-10/43403017#43403017) if you use MySQL <5.7orMariaDB<10.2.2).
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:
In the vhost configuration, make sure you set PHP 8.1 FPM to answer this single vhost by adding, somewhere between your `<VirtualHost>` tags, the following:
Finally, remember that PHP settings will have to be changed in /etc/php/8.1/fpm/php.ini and you will have to reload php8.1-fpm to take those config changes into account.
When using 2 versions, you will also have issues when calling `composer update`, as this one needs to be called by the relevant PHP version.
This can be done like so:
```
/usr/bin/php8.1 /usr/local/bin/composer update
or, for Chamilo 1.11
/usr/bin/php7.4 /usr/local/bin/composer update
```
If your default php-cli uses PHP7.4 (see `ln -s /etc/alternatives/php`), you might have issues running with a so-called `platform_check.php` script when running `composer update` anyway. This is because this script doesn't user the proper launch context, and you might need to change your default settings on Ubuntu (i.e. change the link /etc/alternatives/php to point to the other php version) before launching `composer update`. You can always revert that operation later on if you need to go back to work on Chamilo 1.11 and Composer complains again.
