Setup and installation

Technical requirements

Before installing Moodle you must:

• Install PHP 7.3.0 or higher, and the following PHP extensions (most of which are installed and enabled by default in most PHP installations): iConv, mbstring, curl, openssl, ctype, zip, zlib, simplexml, spl, pcre, dom, xml, xmlreader, intl, json, hash, fileinfo

• A supported Database server. Moodle supports the following databases with the relevant PHP Extensions:

  • MariaDB (version 10.2.29 or higher) with the MySQLi PHP Extension

  • MySQL (version 5.7 or higher) with the MySQLi PHP Extension

  • Postgresql (version 10 or higher) with the pgsql PHP Extension

  • Microsoft SQL Server (version 14.0 or higher) with the SQLSRV PHP Extension

  • Oracle (version 11.2 or higher) with the OCI8 PHP Extension