Installation via the Command Line Interface
Moodle provides a Command Line Interface (CLI), which lets you perform a number of administrative tasks from the Unix shell prompt. There is no CLI for Windows-based systems. CLI-based installations are useful if you need to automate setups, for example, in an environment where you have to host multiple Moodle instances.
The CLI is not for the faint-hearted, so be careful when using it. You have to execute the installation script as the same user used for the web server, usually www-data or apache. You can run the installation script, install.php, in interactive mode (you will have to enter any parameters by hand) or in non-interactive mode where the script will run silently.
From your dirroot, you can ...
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