Installation in a Windows environment

XAMPP is a free Apache distribution that contains MySQL and PHP (as well as Perl) and exists for a number of operating systems. The Moodle distribution for Windows makes full use of XAMPP and is located at download.moodle.org/windows. The installation works on all the latest Windows PC and server variants.

The XAMPP-based Moodle distribution is only suitable for servers with a small number of users. For larger Windows installations you have to install Moodle manually. This involves installing a database server (MS SQL or any other support system), a web server (Microsoft IIS or Apache), and PHP, separately. You find details about this process at docs.moodle.org/en/Windows_installation.

Once downloaded, take ...

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