Chamilo is a learning management system focused on ease of use and accessibility
Chamilo is an e-learning platform, also called "LMS" or "LCMS" published under GNU/GPLv3+. It is or has been used by more than 20M people worldwide.
Chamilo 2.0 is still in development stage. This installation procedure is for reference only. For a stable Chamilo, please install Chamilo 1.11.x. See the 1.11.x branch README.md for details.
We assume you have already installed "yarn 2.x" and "composer 2.x" and you're installing the portal in a domain, not in a sub folder inside a domain.
# on a fresh Ubuntu, you can prepare your server by issuing an apt command like the following apt update && apt -y upgrade && apt install apache2 libapache2-mod-php mariadb-client mariadb-server php-pear php-dev php-gd php-curl php-intl php-mysql php-mbstring php-zip php-xml php-cli php-apcu php-bcmath git unzip npm # otherwise, you can use the following directly: git clone https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms.git chamilo2 cd chamilo2 composer install # *important*: when composer asks to accept recipes, about 11 times, press enter or "n" php bin/console fos:js-routing:dump --format=json --target=public/js/fos_js_routes.json yarn set version berry yarn install yarn run encore dev chmod -R 777 .
Then 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: ~~~~ chmod -R 755 . chown -R www-data: public/ var/ ~~~~
If you have already installed it and just want to update it from Git, do: ~~~~ git pull composer update php bin/console fos:js-routing:dump --format=json --target=public/js/fosjsroutes.json
yarn up yarn run encore dev ~~~~ This will update the JS (yarn) and PHP (composer) dependencies.
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:
.env.local
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 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.
Libraries
See https://github.com/chamilo/chamilo-lms/projects/3
If you want to submit new features or patches to Chamilo 2, please follow the Github contribution guide https://guides.github.com/activities/contributing-to-open-source/ and our CONTRIBUTING.md file. In short, we ask you to send us Pull Requests based on a branch that you create with this purpose into your repository forked from the original Chamilo repository.
For more information on Chamilo, visit https://campus.chamilo.org/documentation/index.html
You can install Yarn on Ubuntu following the instructions at https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-yarn-on-ubuntu-18-04/ You can install Composer on Ubuntu following the instructions at https://getcomposer.org/download/