A Docker image that installs and runs the latest Moodle stable, with external MySQL, Mariadb or Postgresql Database and automated installation with a default predefined administrator user. Also all the images are availalbe via docker hub.

Buidling the required images using this repo is a liitle laborious and the whole process is described in the CONTRIBUTING.md file.

All available images are listed in: https://hub.docker.com/r/ellakcy/moodle/tags?page=1&ordering=-name

Each flavor is seperates by database support, version and either if is it based on apache, or alpine via fpm. To be more specific:

The ^VERSION^ is a 2-3 digit number the first digit follows the major version and the rest of them follow the minor version. For example the mulitbase_apache_39 runs the moodle 3.9 whilst mulitbase_apache_310 runs the moodle 3.10 .

Also for the latest moodle version we also ship the following images:

Whilst for the most recent moodle lts we ship:

All images are shipped with php 8.0.

For greater stability and unexpected interruptions we reccomend to use the approach locking moodle and php version.

Default php is 8.0 whereas images with php 7.4 and 8.1 are shipped as well:

Replace the ^PHP_VERSION^ the follwoig bellow . The current php versions are:

• 8.1
• 8.0
• 7.4

Whereas the build moodle versions are:

• 311
• 400
• 401
• 402
• 403

All moodle versions bellow 3.11 are not build and supported via out solution.

The database support is described into moodles documentation depending the moodle version. The installer will point you to appropriate version if you follow these steps:

Create a docker-compose.yml with a db version mentioned upon https://moodledev.io/docs/4.3/gettingstarted/requirements

Run it locally and look at container's log (via docker log command). At invorrect version the installer (via entrypoint script) will point an error similar to:

== Environment ==
!! database mariadb (10.2.44-MariaDB-1:10.2.44+maria~bionic) !!
[System] version 10.6.7 is required and you are running 10.2.44 - 

In order to retrieve the logs follow these commands:

# create docker-compose
cd ./folder_where_docker-compose_is
docker-compose up -d
docker ps --filter ancestor=ellakcy/moodle
# Then copy the container id and run
docker logs -f ^container_id^

Also at docker ps command above we can also use a specific tag as well for example:

docker ps --filter ancestor=ellakcy/moodle:multibase_apache_403

We aim to deliver freshly images on weekly basis. Each build image is tagged with the build date in a format _YmdHi, without build date is the latest build, for example the image mysql_maria_apache_latest is the latest built image whilst mysql_maria_apache_latest_202108112012 is the image built at 2021-08-11 20:12. At docker hub you can look at tags section for the latest or older builds.

We also strongly recomend to create a docker-compose.yml and run using docker-compose in case that our solution mentioned above, does not fit your needs. The moodle-compose ( https://github.com/ellakcy/moodle-compose ) we developped is no longer supported

To spawn a new instance of Moodle:

• ... using MySQL:

  docker run -d --name DB -e MYSQL_DATABASE=moodle -e MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD=yes -e MYSQL_ONETIME_PASSWORD=yes -e MYSQL_USER=^a database user^ -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=^a database password^ mysql:5.7
  docker run -d -P --name moodle --link DB:DB -e MOODLE_DB_HOST=DB -e MOODLE_URL=http://0.0.0.0:8080 -p 8080:80 ellakcy/moodle:mysql_maria_apache_^VERSION^
  

  ** NOTICE ** For now due to the way that mysql authenticates its users, is working with vesrsion 5.7 version of mysql and earlier

• ... using MariaDB:

  docker run -d --name DB -e MYSQL_DATABASE=^a database name^ -e MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD=yes -e MYSQL_ONETIME_PASSWORD=yes -e MYSQL_USER=^a database user^ -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=^a database password^ mariadb:10.2
  docker run -d -P --name moodle --link DB:DB -e MOODLE_DB_HOST=DB -e MOODLE_URL=http://0.0.0.0:8080 -e MOODLE_DB_TYPE="mariadb" -p 8080:80 ellakcy/moodle:mysql_maria_apache_^VERSION^
  

  ** NOTICE ** Please use Mariadb 10.2 and earlier for the same reasons as mysql one.

• ... using PostgreSQL:

  docker run --name=DB -e POSTGRES_USER=^a database user^ -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=^a database password^ -e POSTGRES_DB=^a database name^ -d postgres
  docker run -d -P --name moodle --link DB:DB -e MOODLE_DB_HOST=DB -e MOODLE_URL=http://0.0.0.0:8080 -e MOODLE_DB_TYPE="pgsql" -p 8080:80 ellakcy/moodle:postgresql_apache_^VERSION^
  

Then you can visit the following URL in a browser to get started:

http://0.0.0.0:8080

NOTICE: In case you need to keep the data persisted use volumes both in database and moodle containers. NOTICE 2: ^VERSION indicates the moodle version. For the latest lts just use lts or for the latest non lts use latest Notice 3: In case your moodle installation is shipped via

For fpm solutions is recomended to use docker-compose. For production use is reccomended the to use the repo https://github.com/ellakcy/moodle-compose .

Also you can use the following extra enviromental variables (using -e option on docker run command):

A default user is generated during installation. Please provide different credentials during installation.

For now you can use the following volumes:

• /var/moodledata In order to get all the stored data.
• /var/www/html Containing the moodle source code. This is used by nginx as well.

In case you want to use the nginx as reverse http proxy is recommended to provide the following settings:

server {
  listen  449 ssl;
  server_name  ^your_domain^;

  ssl_certificate     ^path_to_cert^;
  ssl_certificate_key ^path_to_key^;
  ssl_protocols       TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
  ssl_ciphers         HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5;

  location / {
        proxy_http_version 1.1;
        proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
        proxy_set_header Connection 'upgrade';

        proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
        proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
        proxy_cache_bypass $http_upgrade;

        # In case or running another port please replace the value bellow.
        proxy_pass http://^local_url_and_port^;
  }
}

Where:

• ^your_domain^: The domain that the moodle is available. Keep in mind that this value is the same in the MOODLE_URL enviromental variable.
• ^local_url_and_port^: Url that the reverse proxy will forward the requests.
• ^path_to_cert^,^path_to_key^: The certificate and its key.

As you can see the reverse proxy DOES NOT provide the http Host header according to this issue.

Also keep in mind to set the following docker enviromental variables MOODLE_REVERSE_LB and MOODLE_SSL into true as well.

The following aren't handled, considered, or need work:

• moodle cronjob (should be called from cron container)
• log handling (stdout?)
• email (does it even send?)

Also in case of an error that mentions:

UnixHTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=None): Read timed out. (read timeout=60)

Export the following enviromental variables:

export DOCKER_CLIENT_TIMEOUT=120
export COMPOSE_HTTP_TIMEOUT=120

This is a fork of jmhardison/docker-moodle.