Installing Moodle on Centos or Redhat RHEL

Step # 1: Install Apache             
              yum install httpd.


Step # 2: Install php
             yum install php

Step # 3: Install mysql
             yum install mysql

Step 1 to 3

yum -y install  php-common php-cli php-pear screen apr apr-util httpd-tools httpd mysqlperl-DBD-MySQL mysql-server php php-pdo php-mysql libXpm php-gd php-xml php-mbstring php-xmlrpc php-intl php-soap

Step # 4: Download latest tar file from moodle website and extract to /var/www/html/moodle


Step # 5. 
Create empty database in MySQL 

#mysql -u root -p yourpasswordhere
At the mysql prompt:
mysql>CREATE DATABASE mydbname CHARSET 'utf8';

mysql>GRANT select,insert,update,delete,create,drop,index,alter ON mydbname.* TO mymoodleuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'moodleuserpassword';

mysql>flush privileges;

mysql>quit;

Example

#mysql -u root -p R@@T123
At the mysql prompt:
mysql>CREATE DATABASE moodle CHARSET 'utf8';

mysql>GRANT select,insert,update,delete,create,drop,index,alter ON moodle.* TO admin@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'M@@D123';

mysql>flush privileges;

mysql>quit;


Step # 6. 

Create Moodle directory in /var/www/html/moodle and EXTRACT the TAR/ZIP file in moodle directory

mkdir /var/www/htmlmoodle
cd /var/www/html/moodle
chown - R apache:apache *
chmod -R 744 * 

Step # 7. 

Create MoodleData Folder for saving moodle data  

mkdir /var/www/moodledata
cd /var/www/moodledata
chown - R apache:apache *
chmod -R 744 * 

Note: Check here for security recommendations:

http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Security_recommendations 

Step # 8.
 Moodle! Installation 

 start the httpd,mysql services

Open up a web browser on the server and hit: http://localhost/moodle or http://youripaddress/moodle
Install and configure as desired.