MuTMS Seed for Moodle 5.1

A Composer project template to seed a new Moodle 5.1.x site with MuTMS plugins.

Note: For multi-tenant setups, use the Multi-tenancy seed instead.

Requirements

• Composer dependency manager
• All standard Moodle 5.1 requirements — see Moodle release notes
• Experience with web server installation and configuration

New site installation

1. Create a new project from the seed template:

   cd /var/www
   composer create-project mutms/seed mysite
   cd mysite

   Composer will install the latest stable Moodle 5.1.x release under moodle/.

2. Add any MuTMS plugins you want:

   composer require mutms/moodle-tool_muprog
   composer require mutms/moodle-tool_mucertify
   composer require mutms/moodle-tool_mutrain
   composer require mutms/moodle-tool_murelation
   composer require mutms/moodle-tool_musudo
   composer require mutms/moodle-tool_mupwned
   composer require mutms/moodle-tool_muloginas
   composer require mutms/moodle-tool_muhome
   composer require mutms/moodle-mod_mubook

   See MuTMS project page for a full list of available plugins.

3. Point your web server document root to /var/www/mysite/moodle/public, or create a symlink to serve it as a subdirectory of an existing web server:

   ln -s /var/www/mysite/moodle/public /var/www/html/mysite

4. Open your Moodle site in a web browser to complete installation. Composer will have already created config.php and set up the database during create-project. Visiting the site triggers Moodle upgrade to register any added plugins.

Note: To skip the interactive installer, place a pre-configured config.php in the seed directory before running composer create-project. In this case database installation and plugin registration must be triggered manually by visiting the site or running the CLI installer.

Update

To update Moodle and all installed plugins to their latest 5.1.x compatible versions:

cd /var/www/mysite
composer update

Then open your site in a web browser or run the CLI upgrade to apply any database changes.

Add plugins to existing site

To add a new plugin to an existing site:

cd /var/www/mysite
composer update
composer require mutms/moodle-tool_muprog

Then open your site in a web browser or run the CLI upgrade to register the new plugin.

Major version upgrade

To upgrade to Moodle 5.2 or later, switch to the corresponding MuTMS seed for that release. Migration instructions will be provided once Moodle 5.2 is released.

Project structure

After installation, the /var/www/mysite/ directory will contain:

Path	Description
composer.json	Defines Moodle version and installed plugins.
composer.lock	Records exact installed versions. Do not edit manually.
config.php	Moodle site configuration created during installation.
moodle/	Moodle and all plugins installed by Composer. Do not edit directly.
data/	Suggested location for Moodle data directory.
vendor/	Composer dependencies.

The seed is hosted at github.com/mutms/seed. If you need to customise the project template, fork the repository, clone your fork to the server, and run composer install instead of composer create-project.

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Based on the Moodle Seed project by Andrew Lyons.