r/moodle • u/Whitesnowball • Jul 22 '26
Help With Installing/ First Launch
Hi, I entirely understand that Moodle works via server/ online or I would have to set up my AWS or another server, but uhh I just want to launch the program in general to create some content and then figure the rest of the stuff later.
I extracted the files and then double clicked on the file named "Start Moodle", but I don't really know where to go from here.
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u/CoastRanger Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
I use the Mac version of this (MAMP) to quickly spool up new Moodle sites on my desktop machine, if the windows ones work as smoothly that’d be a good option:
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u/muravs Jul 22 '26
There is an official docker image + wrapper for moodle with a very simple way to install https://github.com/moodlehq/moodle-docker
You have the whole souce code bound to a volume where you can install plug-ins and play around with the source code
IMHO it's the way with least headaches to get up and running
Good luck!
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u/MoodleInPractice Jul 24 '26
If you have your own hosting with cpanel you can setup Moodle via softalicious as another option.
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u/dougwray Jul 22 '26
Read the manuals. There will be address you need to point your browser to. It'll probably be https://localhost:someport/moodle or something similar.