Date Posted : 21/12/2018

How to migrate Cpanel Moodle to Bitnami stack

In this article, we’re going to explain about migrating a cpanel moodle site to bitnami stack

Bitnami Moodle

Prerequisites

We assume you have bitnami application up and running
Cpanel backup files and database copied to bitnami server

Backup Existing Data from Cpanel

Copy the web files and moodle data directory from your cpanel server to bitnami server under /backup/cpbackup-username username folder

/home/username/public_html
/home/username/moodledata

Backup Database 

1. Login to cPanel 
2. Click on Phpmyadmin
3. Select username_moodle database
4. Click on “Export” Database
5. On the resulting page, select the “Quick” export method and the “SQL” output format
6. Click “Go”
7. An SQL export file will be created and downloaded to your desktop. Store this file carefully, as you will need it if you plan to later import the database back into MySQL.

You need to copy this database to bitnami server

Stop bitnami apache service

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop apache

Rename existing bitnami installation

mv /opt/bitnami/apps/moodle/htdocs/ /opt/bitnami/apps/moodle/htdocs-OLD
mv /opt/bitnami/apps/moodle/moodledata /opt/bitnami/apps/moodle/moodledata-OLD

Upload and extract backups which you taken from cPanel server

cp -pr /backup/cpbackup-username/public_html/* /opt/bitnami/apps/moodle/htdocs/ 
cp -pr /backup/cpbackup-username/moodledata/* /opt/bitnami/apps/moodle/moodledata/

Update Moodle variables in config.php

$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://learn.pheonixsolutions.com';
$CFG->dataroot  = '/opt/bitnami/apps/moodle/moodledata';
$CFG->directorypermissions = 02775;

Apply valid ownership to run under bitnami user

chown bitnami:daemon 	/opt/bitnami/apps/moodle/htdocs/ -R
chown bitnami:daemon 	/opt/bitnami/apps/moodle/moodledata -R
chown daemon:daemon /opt/bitnami/apps/moodle/moodledata/sessions/ -R

Change permissions for moodledata directory and its sub folders

chmod 2775 /opt/bitnami/apps/moodle/moodledata
cd /opt/bitnami/apps/moodle/moodledata
find . -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;

Start bitnami apache service

sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start apache

You should have all the Moodle components upgraded and ready to use.

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