Practical guides for building, securing, and operating open-source learning platforms. Moodle, Open edX, Canvas, Linux & EdTech infrastructure.youtube.com/@OpenEduOpsJoined July 2026
The new OpenEduOps video is now live 🔒
We take Moodle from http://SERVER-IP to a real domain with trusted HTTPS.
✅ DNS verification
✅ Certbot + Let’s Encrypt
✅ Automatic renewal tested
✅ MariaDB and Mailpit kept private
#Moodle#UbuntuServer#LetsEncrypt
Your Moodle server is online.
But it is still living behind an IP address, plain HTTP, and no trusted identity.
Tomorrow, we fix that:
Real domain.
Free HTTPS.
Let’s Encrypt.
Apache.
Automatic renewal tested.
The next OpenEduOps episode goes live tomorrow 🔒
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Why create a separate database user for Moodle instead of using root?
Because if Moodle, or a plugin, ever hits a SQL injection bug, the blast radius should be one database, not the whole database server.
Least privilege is not paranoia.
It’s incident math.
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Moodle permissions, translated:
Code: 755 dirs, 644 files: “Readable by all. Writable only by root.”
moodledata: 700 dirs, 600 files: “www-data only. Everyone else: keep walking.”. Uploads, caches and sessions live there, so moodledata stays private and outside the web root.
From a clean Ubuntu 24.04 VM to a working @moodle 5.2 site. The full install, step by step.
PHP 8.3 ✅
MariaDB ✅
Apache ✅
Secure permissions ✅
Moodle actually loading ✅
Yes, the permissions are done properly 😉. No chmod 777 in sight.
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