Dockerfile Cookbook Recipes Attempt 1: moodle (failure)

• Moodle is considered the defacto educational test taking / building system.

We will attempt the most basic build and from that look at security basics.

Step 1: Make a moodle install point

• Make a directory /moodle
• Inside it we will build a moodle source point.

mkdir moodle
cd moodle
git clone https://github.com/moodle/moodle.git
chown -R www-data:root moodle

Step 2: Running a moodle instance (diagnostic testing)

• Is built off of calling a php image and giving it a -v point that matches where moodle is installed, thus:

docker run -it -v /moodle/moodle:/var/www/html -p 8080:80 --name moodle php:apache

It will show up as:

http://<external ip>:8080/install.php

A basic install serial:

The installer is pretty comprehensive (and forgiving) it will guide you if you need to change a permission.

• Moodle is used to having it's own server, but we have containerized it using the -v option to map its directory to the moodle directory

To fix this we need to get into the running container itself

chown -R www-data:root www

It supports the following drivers:

• We can see at this point we need to go back and build a modified Dockerfile - which has the PDO / database objects as it was not native to the container.