 Hello and welcome if you're viewing this screencast you're probably new to Moodle so you're taking the first bold steps in installing Moodle. We're going to demonstrate what's involved in installing Moodle on a web server we're going to presume though that you've got a web domain that's already been configured for the web and you've got Apache, NiceQL, PHP all set up good to go. We're going to come into Moodle.org in the downloads area and we go to standard Moodle packages. In the case of choosing your preferred flavor whether you want to download and work with a current stable release there's some older stable builds and there's also some upcoming releases these are not fit for a production environment they're either alpha or beta or you know sort of previews or release candidates so they're typically used by testers or developers. Now we've downloaded our preferred flavor you would need to do the same and then upload it to your web space. So in our case we're using control panel and it would be a matter of uploading your chosen Moodle build to the public HTML or the web root or the HT docs area of your chosen domain. Now before we proceed with the installation we need to create a database and a user so we'll do that very quickly now. Creating a NiceQL database for this particular Moodle and we'll create a user as well. Now let's associate the set user with that newly created database and assign them all privileges. So that's been done back over to file manager. Let's now extract Moodle software into the public HTML directory. Okay so that's been done it's a case of putting your browser at the URL and you will now run the install wizard. So choose your language you can see here we've got the set full web address Moodle directory and a Moodle data directory that should be situated outside your public HTML or your web root and it's important that this directory is readable and writable by the web server. Choose your database type and now it's a case of putting in your database name and user and password. So we read the conditions and understand them and agree to them and then move forward. We've seen environmental check here before we proceed with the installation and so long as there's no red flags with respect to the database and it's encoding and PHP and the related libraries and extensions we should be okay to proceed. So what's happening here we're creating the data I guess the tables and the fields are required within the MySQL database for Moodle to function. So scroll to the bottom of that page and we click continue. So we're now creating the primary or the super admin account. We need to fill out the mandatory fields, update your profile and we'll give the site a full name, a short name and save those changes. So there you have it we've just installed a vanilla Mint Moodle instance and now it's up to you as the primary admin to go through and customize the global configurations and then naturally you can start adding users, assigning roles, creating courses and content. So relax, enjoy and happy Moodling.