devops-ansible/docker-moodle

Moodle – just another Docker image

This repository is meant to provide a simple usage docker image for online learning platform Moodle.

It is based on the basic Apache container by DevOpsAnsible.de and uses / provides all its features.

Usage

You need to provide an external database (e.g. a running MariaDB Docker container) and load your moodle data from either a directory on your host or a Docker volume. While installing, one can define the data location as /var/www/moodledata. Also it is necessarry to have the configuration file outside of the Container, so the config will be persistent. We also recommend to have an .htaccess file persistent outside of the container.

So to (initially) run the container, an example call could look like that (ensure to be within the data location you want to be!):

mkdir data
mkdir config
cat <<EOF > config/.htaccess
SetEnvIf X-Forwarded-Proto https HTTPS=on
EOF

docker run -d --rm -P \
           -v $( pwd )/data:/var/www/moodledata \
           -v $( pwd )/config/.htaccess:/var/www/html/.htaccess \
           jugendpresse/moodle:latest

Do the installing via Web-UI and then copy the newly written /var/www/html/config.php to your host via docker cp. It should be placed at $(pwd)/config/config.php for finally running the container (after simply stopping the container above):

docker run -d -P \
           -v $( pwd )/data:/var/www/moodledata \
           -v $( pwd )/config/.htaccess:/var/www/html/.htaccess \
           -v $( pwd )/config/config.php:/var/www/html/config.php \
           jugendpresse/moodle:latest

When running all in production, we recommend to make config.php and .htaccess read-only within the container.