How To Setup E-Learning Management System Using Opigno On CentOS 6.5

- May 07, 2014

Whether you’re an Online trainer, a lab instructor, a lecturer and looking for a full-fledged LMS for your school, College and University, a simple way to train your collaborators around the world, but you don’t know where/how to start, then Opigno is the right choice.

Opigno is a powerful, Open Source, Drupal based Learning Management System. Its main goals are to be intuitive, extensible and scalable.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding, we should have a working LAMP stack.

Setup Database for Opigno

Log in to your database server and create database and database user for Opigno. In my case, i am going to create a database called “opignodb” and a user “opignouser” with password “admin@123”.

# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 50
Server version: 5.5.35 MySQL Community Server (GPL) by Remi

Copyright (c) 2000, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> create database opignodb;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL ON opignodb.* TO opignouser@localhost IDENTIFIED by 'admin@123';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL ON opignodb.* TO opignouser@192.168.0.155 IDENTIFIED by 'admin@123';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)
mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> exit
Bye

Getting latest Opigno Version

# wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/opigno_lms-7.x-1.3-core.zip

Now extract and move opigno zip file to your apache root folder.

# unzip opigno_lms-7.x-1.3-core.zip 
# mv opigno_lms-7.x-1.3/ /var/www/html/opigno

Setting up permissions:



During Opigno installation, the installer will automatically create a file storage directory in the default location at sites/default/files. So we have to set write permissions to the sites/default directory.



# chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/opigno/

Don’t forget to set permissions back after the installation.

Instead of allowing the web server to create the files directory, you can create it yourself.

To do that, go to your Opigno installation directory.



# cd /var/www/html/opigno/

Create a directory called files under sites/default folder.

# mkdir sites/default/files

Now copy the sites/default/default.settings.php file to sites/default/settings.php file.

# cp sites/default/default.settings.php sites/default/settings.php

Restart httpd service with command:

# service httpd restart

Begin Installation:



Now let us begin installation by navigating to http://ip-address/opigno or http://domain-name/opigno and follow the onscreen instructions.

Select you language and click Save and Continue.





If all settings are ok, you’ll be asked to enter the database name, database user and its password.





Now the installation will begin.





Enter your LMS site name, admin mail id, country, time zone and admin user password details and click Save and Continue.







Congratulations! We have successfully installed Opigno LMS.





Now click on the link Visit your new site or navigate to http://ip-address/opignoto log in your administrative dashboard.






As i mentioned earlier, we should set permissions back to original state.

# chmod -R go-w sites/default/

That’s it for now. Create accounts for teachers and students, add courses, catalogues etc.

Next
 you have to learn how to effectively use Opigno to meet as per your 
campus curriculum requirements. Go through the every option and learn 
yourself, that’s not much difficult. Still difficult to understand 
Opigno, don’t bother, download and read the Opigno User manual. 




Happy e-learning! Enjoy UR Self!!!