Moodle 2.0

Installing Moodle
If your school or company has given you space on their web server, you might have
access to the directory just as if it were another folder on your PC. In that case, you
can download the .tgz file, put it into your directory on the web server, and then
decompress it. Tell the system administrator who gave you access what you want to
do, and ask how to decompress a file in your directory.
You can decompress the file by carrying out the following steps:
1. Go to http://moodle.org and download the version of Moodle that you
want to install. You will download a compressed file, in either .zip or .tgz
format.
2. Upload the compressed file to your hosting service.
3. Using the control panel that your host gives you, select the compressed file.
If it automatically decompresses, you're in luck. Go ahead and decompress
it in place.
Or
Decompress the file on your local PC, and upload the resulting files to your
hosting service.
Installation Step 4: The Moodle Data
Directory
When you run the Moodle install script, the installer asks you to specify a directory
in which to store course material. This is the Moodle data directory. It holds material
that is uploaded to the courses. You will need to have this directory created before
you run the install script. That is what you will do in this step.
For security, the Moodle data directory should be outside of the main
Moodle directory. For example, suppose you are creating a learning site
called www.info-overload.biz/learn. You will install Moodle into /learn,
and create the Moodle data directory somewhere outside of /learn.
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