Instalasi Mahara

Siapkan aplikasi pendukung

apt-get install libsyncml0 libsyncml-dev libsyncml-utils \
opensync-plugin-syncml php-pear php5-gd php5-imap php5-odbc \
php5-pgsql apache2 mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev libphp-adodb \
libgd2-xpm libgd2-xpm-dev php5-mysql php5-gd php5-curl php-pear \
php5-xmlrpc libnet-ssleay-perl

Ambil source code mahara di

http://mahara.org/
http://eduforge.org/frs/?group_id=176
https://launchpad.net/mahara/1.4
https://launchpad.net/mahara/1.4/1.4.2/+download/mahara-1.4.2.tar.bz2
https://launchpad.net/mahara/1.4/1.4.2/+download/mahara-1.4.2.tar.gz

Install mahara

cp mahara-1.4.2.tar.bz2 /var/www/
cd /var/www
tar jxvf mahara-1.4.2.tar.bz2 
mv /var/www/mahara-1.4.2 /var/www/mahara
mkdir /var/www/maharadata
chmod -Rf 777 /var/www/maharadata
chown -Rf www-data.www-data /var/www/maharadata
chown -Rf www-data.www-data /var/www/mahara

Edit konfigurasi

cd /var/www/mahara/htdocs/
cp /var/www/mahara/htdocs/config-dist.php /var/www/mahara/htdocs/config.php 
vi /var/www/mahara/htdocs/config.php

// database connection details
// valid values for dbtype are 'postgres8' and 'mysql5'
$cfg->dbtype   = 'mysql5';
$cfg->dbhost   = 'localhost';
$cfg->dbport   = null;
$cfg->dbname   = 'mahara';
$cfg->dbuser   = 'mahara';
$cfg->dbpass   = 'mahara';
$cfg->dbprefix = 'mh_';
$cfg->dataroot = '/var/www/maharadata';

Buat database mahara pada MySQL, siapkan user database untuk mengakses database mahara melalui perintah

# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: (isi password root untuk MySQL)
mysql> create database maharadb character set UTF8;
mysql> grant ALL on maharadb.* to mahara@localhost identified by 'maharapass';
mysql> grant ALL on maharadb.* to mahara identified by 'maharapass';
mysql> exit

Bagi mereka yang sedang experimen / mencoba dapat menggunakan yang lebih sederhana

# mysql -u root -p123456

create database mahara character set UTF8;
grant ALL on mahara.* to mahara@localhost identified by 'mahara';
grant ALL on mahara.* to mahara identified by 'mahara';
exit

Edit php.ini

vi /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

register_globals off
magic_quotes_runtime off
magic_quotes_sybase off
magic_quotes_gpc off
log_errors on
allow_call_time_pass_reference off
upload_max_filesize 50M
post_max_size 50M

Misalnya Server berada di IP Address 192.168.0.62 Edit konfigurasi Apache2 jika kita berada di shared host

vi /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mahara-httpd.conf

 <VirtualHost *:80>
         ServerName 192.168.0.62
         DocumentRoot /var/www/mahara/htdocs

         ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/mahara.error.log
         CustomLog /var/log/apache2/mahara.access.log combined

         <Directory /var/www/mahara/htdocs>
                 AllowOverride All
         </Directory>
 </VirtualHost>

Reload Apache