Merci d'avoir téléchargé Chamilo
Ce guide explique comment installer Chamilo LMS. Nous recommandons activement la lecture complète de ce guide avant de commencer l'installation.
English: Get back to the English version of the installation guide.
Spanish: También puede leer esta guía de instalación en español.
Italian: You can also read this guide in Italian.
Depuis sa version 1.10, Chamilo exige que le serveur web puisse gérer les redirections. Il s'agit d'un pré-requis très commun de nos jours pour les applications web (autant CMS que LMS, ERP, etc) qui permet, entre autres, l'utilisation intelligente et user-friendly des URLs.
Si vous utilisez un autre serveur web qu'Apache, dirigez-vous à la section "Configuration de la réécriture" en fin de ce document.
Si vous utilisez Apache, la configuration des redirections se fait en deux étapes simples:
<Directory />
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
et pour Apache >=2.4:
<Directory />
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
Avant d'installer Chamilo LMS, vous devez comprendre que du fait que Chamilo est un logiciel libre,
de nombreux prestataires de service ont été en mesure de développer des extensions pour Chamilo,
qui ont rendu son installation possible par différents biais :
Sous les systèmes d'exploitation Linux, Mac OS X et BSD, vous pouvez utiliser la commande chmod 0775 pour modifier les permissions, bien que nous recommandions, pour des raisons de sécurité, de cherchez l'assistance d'un administrateur système expérimenté pour le faire. Sous Windows, vous pourriez avoir besoin de vérifier les propriétés de ces répertoires (en cliquant dessus avec le bouton droit de la souris).
Important : Vous aurez besoin de définir votre date.timezone en fonction de votre fuseau horaire. Par exemple si votre serveur se trouve dans la zone America/New_York, indiquez cette valeur pour le paramètre date.timezone du fichier php.ini :
Note: PHP 5.3.9 introduit un nouveau paramètre appelé "max_input_vars", qui limite le nombre d'éléments que vous pouvez envoyer au travers d'un formulaire déterminé. Si vous devez gérer de grandes quantités d'utilisateurs ou de longs parcours d'apprentissage (de nombreux éléments), assurez-vous de configurer ce paramètre plus haut que se valeur par défault de 1000.
Utilisateurs de BSD: les librairies suivantes doivent être inclues durant l'installation de PHP:
Nous recommandons aussi les extensions suivantes:
ATTENTION:
Ne supprimez pas le précédent dossier d'installation de Chamilo avant d'avoir installé le nouveau.
Quand la mise à jour sera terminée, les dossiers obsolètes devraient être automatiquement pris en charge.
If you have problems, go to the Chamilo website and ask a question on the support forum. Please read the previous messages first to see if there is already an answer to your question.
Pour accéder à la section d'administration, ouvrez un navigateur, chargez l'adresse de votre Chamilo et connectez-vous avec l'utilisateur administrateur. Vous verrez alors un onglet "Administration" dans le menu principal. Vous pouvez y gérer les utilisateurs, les cours, les sessions et l'apparence de votre site
This part is optional, only organisations with an LDAP server will need to read this.
An LDAP module is already provided in Chamilo, but it has to be configured to make it work.
Linux servers: It's possible that you have to recompile php with ldap support. Newer distributions also allow downloading rpms for additional packages.
Note: Vérifiez la configuration LDAP dans Chamilo pour voir le détail
In [Chamilo folder]/app/config/configuration.php, around line 93, you'll find settings like the following:
// -> Uncomment the two lines below to activate LDAP AND edit main/inc/conf/auth.conf.php for configuration
// $extAuthSource["extldap"]["login"] = $_configuration['root_sys'].$_configuration['code_append']."auth/external_login/login.ldap.php";
// $extAuthSource["extldap"]["newUser"] = $_configuration['root_sys'].$_configuration['code_append']."auth/external_login/newUser.ldap.php";
remove the // from the last two lines to activate LDAP.
Ask the LDAP server admin for the settings:
By default, Chamilo will check if the "employeenumber" field has a value. If it has, then Chamilo will
consider this user as being a teacher.
If you want to change this behaviour, you can edit main/auth/ldap/authldap.php, function ldap_put_user_info_locally(),
and change the if (empty($info_array[$tutor_field])) condition to whatever suits you.
You can also remove this check by removing the condition and leaving only the $status = STUDENT; line.
Some LDAP servers do not support anonymous use of the directory services.
In this case, you should fill in the appropriate fields in the
administration panel (e.g. "manager" and "mypassword") and Chamilo will
try to authenticate using these, or fall back to anonymous mode before
giving up.
There is a new set of scripts now that allow you to insert users
from LDAP directly into a Chamilo session. This, however, relies on a
set of static choices in the LDAP contact attributes.
The fields used intensively by the Chamlio module are:
Installing this plugin you get WIRIS editor and WIRIS CAS.
This activation will not be completed unless you have previously downloaded the PHP plugin for CKeditor WIRIS and unzipped its contents into the main/inc/lib/ckeditor/editor/plugins/ckeditor_wiris/ directory.
This is necessary because Wiris is proprietary software and its services are commercial. To make adjustments to the plugin, edit configuration.ini file or replace his content by configuration.ini.default Chamilo file.
Note: This step will require a dedicated server or a virtual dedicated server as the packages involved are not available on most shared hosting solutions.
On Debian or Ubuntu 10.04 and superior, you will simply need to install the php5-xapian package and restart your web server:
sudo apt-get install php5-xapian
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
Then go to your administration page -> Configuration settings -> Search
and enable the search tool. Follow the recommendations on the page to get the
complete indexing suite installed. Once you're done, all documents you import
into your Chamilo portal in a recognized format will be indexed and searchable.
Chamilo Administrators training (which you can ask any Chamilo's Official
Provider for) include a full review of the full-text search feature.
Note: Xapian's licensing for the PHP extension is a bit different than what is necessary to enter the Debian repositories, so it has been excluded. You can, however, generate your own package by following the packaging instructions on Xapian's wiki.
Note: This step will require a dedicated server or a virtual dedicated server as the packages involved are not available on most shared hosting solutions.
On Debian or Ubuntu 11.10 and superior, install LibreOffice.org v3 and start it as a headless server:
sudo apt-get install libreoffice
sudo soffice -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=2002,tcpNoDelay=1;urp;" -headless -nodefault -nofirststartwizard -nolockcheck -nologo -norestore &
Then go to your administration page -> Chamilo Rapid and set the host to "localhost" and the port to "2002". Save. Go to your course, learning path tool and see the new icon appeared. Import your PPT. This should work.
Note: Sometimes, this doesn't work out so easily. You can probably ask for the assistance of any system administrator around with a bit of Java and PHP experience, or you can always ask one of the Chamilo's Official Providers for assistance (ask for a guaranteed commercial contract).
Since Chamilo 1.8.8, a few tasks need to be executed regularly in order to get the best out of your server resources. One of such tasks (and the only one around at the time of Chamilo 1.8.8) is the sending of internal messaging notifications by e-mail, i.e. when you receive an e-mail from another person or from a group inside the internal messaging system of Chamilo, if all e-mails are sent immediately, then you might not have the chance to receive them at your pace, once a day or even once a week. For cases like this you, as a Chamilo administrator, should setup a cron process on the server to check the queue of e-mails and send is timely.
Setting up a cron task is easy and there are several ways to do it. We recommend you have a look at the Drupal documentation for setting up cron and define your own cron process as:
35 * * * * wget -O - -q -t 1 http://campus.example.com/main/cron/run.php
Make sure you have a look into run.php as maybe you want to change a few
settings there.
As Chamilo becomes more popular and crosses many borders now, it frequently happens that administrators want to re-order the firstname and lastname fields in tables, and also on which field it is sorted first.
This can easily be modified by editing the app/config/configuration.php file, finding the following section, uncommenting the PHP lines and adapting it to your language:
// Custom name_order_conventions
//$_configuration['name_order_conventions'] = array(
// 'french' => array('format' => 'title last_name first_name', 'sort_by' => 'last_name')
//);// Custom name_order_conventions
$_configuration['name_order_conventions'] = array(
'french' => array('format' => 'first_name last_name', 'sort_by' => 'last_name')
);File download can be very slow when passing through a PHP script to control permissions. One solution to this is to use the X-Sendfile header, which depends on a module on the webserver. Check http://stackoverflow.com/a/3731639/1406662 for more details on implementing Sendfile. Chamilo LMS 1.9.8 (and following versions) supports the X-Sendfile headers, but requires a specific line of configuration to be added to configuration.php:
$_configuration['enable_x_sendfile_headers'] = true;If you have issues with files taking a long time to download, make sure you reconfigure your webserver and add this line. You should see an notable difference in download time.
Chamilo supporte la connexion à deux serveurs de vidéo-conférence : BigBlueButton (versions 0.81 et 0.9) et OpenMeetings.
Tandis que BigBlueButton paraît plus simple d'installation, plus clairement documenté et plus
abouti esthétiquement, certains utilisateurs ont attesté que OpenMeetings consomme moins
de bande passante, est moins restrictif en termes d'environnement et offre plus d'outils
et de connecteurs.
La décision vous revient, mais dans chaque cas vous aurez à installer un serveur de vidéo-conférence
en plus du processus d'installation normal de Chamilo.
Consultez le guide d'installation de BigBlueButton
Une fois celui-ci installé, entrez la commande "bbb-conf --secret" pour obtenir les paramètres à indiquer dans le plugin
"Vidéo-conférence" de Chamilo (page Paramètres de configuration).
Une icône "Vidéo-conférence" devrait alors apparaître dans chaque cours.
Chamilo LMS 1.10 est la première version nécessitant que le serveur web autorise les redirections d'url (et donc 1.11 également).
Pour Apache, il s'agit d'active le module rewrite et d'autoriser l'utilisation des fichiers .htaccess ou d'ajouter une section spécifique dans le Virtual Host.
Pour Nginx, il s'agit de définir les règles de redirections dans le Virtual Host.
Pour être certain que c'est à la portée de tous, nous recommandons le fichier de configuration ci-dessous pour vous aider dans les deux cas.
Notez que l'utilisation d'un fichier .htaccess est la solution la plus facile mais peut altérer les performances de votre serveur,
car les fichiers .htaccess sont interprêtés à *chaque* requête, alors qu'une section de configuration supplémentaire dans le Virtual Host
est compilée uniquement lors du chargement du serveur.
Pour activer le .htaccess dans Apache, vous devez juste vérifier une chose : dans un tag <Directory> du dossier racine de Chamilo, vérifiez que les lignes suivantes sont présentes :
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
ou, si vous travaillez avec Apache 2.4, la syntaxe est légèrement différente et ressemble plutôt à ça :
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
<LocationMatch "/.git*">
order deny,allow
deny from all
</LocationMatch>
<Directory ~/.>
AllowOverride None
Options -Indexes
</Directory>
<Directory "/var/www/chamilo">
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^id=(.*)$
RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ user.php?$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^certificates/$ certificates/index.php?id=%1 [L]
RewriteRule ^courses/([^/]+)/$ main/course_home/course_home.php?cDir=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^courses/([^/]+)/index.php$ main/course_home/course_home.php?cDir=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^courses/([^/]+)/document/certificates/(.*)$ app/courses/$1/document/certificates/$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^courses/([^/]+)/document/(.*)$ main/document/download.php?doc_url=/$2&cDir=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^courses/([^/]+)/scorm/(.*)$ main/document/download_scorm.php?doc_url=/$2&cDir=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^courses/([^/]+)/work/(.*)$ main/work/download.php?file=work/$2&cDir=$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^courses/([^/]+)/upload/(.*)$ app/courses/$1/upload/$2 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^courses/([^/]+)/course-pic85x85.png$ app/courses/$1/course-pic85x85.png [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^courses/([^/]+)/course-pic.png$ app/courses/$1/course-pic.png [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^main/upload/users/(.*)/(.*)/my_files/(.*)$ app/upload/users/$1/$2/my_files/$3 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^session/(\d{1,})/about/?$ main/session/about.php?session_id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^badge/(\d{1,})/user/(\d{1,}) main/badge/issued.php?skill=$1&user=$2 [L]
RewriteRule ^main/admin/$ main/admin/index.php [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^main/exercice/(.+)$ main/exercise/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^main/newscorm/(.*)$ main/lp/$1 [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^courses/(.*)$ app/courses/$1 [QSA,L]
</Directory>
# Add your own "server {" header here with listen, server_name, access_log, error_log, index, root and error_page params
charset utf-8;
location @rewrite{
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/scorm/(.*)$ /main/document/download_scorm.php?doc_url=/$2&cDir=$1 last;
# Alternatively, you can choose to give direct access to all SCORM files, which is much faster but less secure
# rewrite "^/courses/([^/]+)/scorm/(.*)$" /app/courses/$1/scorm/$2 break;
rewrite "^/courses/([^/]+)/document/certificates/(.*)$" /app/courses/$1/document/certificates/$2 last;
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/document/(.*)$ /main/document/download.php?doc_url=/$2&cDir=$1 last;
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/work/(.*)$ /main/work/download.php?file=work/$2&cDir=$1 last;
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/upload/(.*)$ /app/courses/$1/upload/$2 last;
rewrite ^/main/upload/users/(.*)/(.*)/my_files/(.*)$ /app/upload/users/$1/$2/my_files/$3 last;
try_files $uri /index.php;
break;
}
location / {
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/$ /main/course_home/course_home.php?cDir=$1 last;
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/index.php$ /main/course_home/course_home.php?cDir=$1 last;
rewrite ^/skill/(\d+)/user/(\d+)$ /main/badge/issued_all.php?skill=$1&user=$2 last;
rewrite ^/badge/(\d+)/user/(\d+)$ /main/badge/issued_all.php?skill=$1&user=$2 last;
try_files $uri @rewrite;
}
location /main {
rewrite ^/main/admin/$ /main/admin/index.php last;
}
location ~ \.php$ {
client_max_body_size 20M;
try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$args;
rewrite ^/certificates/$ /certificates/index.php?id=%1 last;
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/$ /main/course_home/course_home.php?cDir=$1 last;
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/index.php$ /main/course_home/course_home.php?cDir=$1 last;
rewrite ^/session/([^/]+)/about/?$ /main/session/about.php?session_id=$1 last;
rewrite ^/badge/([^/]+) /main/badge/issued.php?issue=$1 last;
rewrite ^/main/exercice/(.+)$ /main/exercise/$1 last;
rewrite ^/main/newscorm/(.+)$ /main/lp/$1 last;
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock;
fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
include fastcgi_params;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;
fastcgi_param HTTPS off;
}
# Serve static files directly
location ~* \.(png|jpe?g|gif|ico|js|css|mp3|swf|flv|mp4|ogg)$ {
expires 1y;
access_log off;
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/course-pic85x85.png$ /app/courses/$1/course-pic85x85.png last;
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/course-pic.png$ /app/courses/$1/course-pic.png last;
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/scorm/(.*)$ /main/document/download_scorm.php?doc_url=/$2&cDir=$1 last;
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/document/(.*)$ /main/document/download.php?doc_url=/$2&cDir=$1 last;
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/work/(.*)$ /main/work/download.php?file=work/$2&cDir=$1 last;
rewrite ^/courses/([^/]+)/upload/(.*)$ /app/courses/$1/upload/$2 last;
# For all these media resources not treated by previous rewrites, give direct access (no permission check)
rewrite ^/courses/(.*)$ /app/courses/$1 break;
try_files $uri @rewrite;
}
location ~ ~\.(ht|git){
deny all;
}
location ^~ /tests/ {
deny all;
}
Adresse de contact
Mail: info@chamilo.org
