Running Canvas LMS Locally

Overview

1. Virtualize Ubuntu 16.04 in VirtualBox
2. Configuring Ubuntu Environment
3. Quick Starting Canvas-LMS

Part 1 - Virtualize Ubuntu 16.04 in VirtualBox

• Install VirtualBox
• Create new Ubuntu 16.04 image using VirtualBox
  • it is imperatrive the machine used has at least 8GB memory

Part 2 - Initialize Ubuntu Environment

• Download this file.
• Execute the command below to switch to root user.
  • sudo -s
• Change the file’s permissions to executable
  • chmod u+x initialize-ubuntu-environment.sh
• Execute the file
  • initialize-ubuntu-environment.sh

Part 3 - Config Database

• Execute the command below and replace the database.yml contents

    nano config/database.yml
  

  • replacement content:

    # do not create a queue: section for your test environment
    test:
        adapter: postgresql
        encoding: utf8
        database: canvas_test
        host: localhost
        username: canvas
        password: pass
        timeout: 5000
  
    development:
        adapter: postgresql
        encoding: utf8
        database: canvas_production
        host: localhost
        username: canvas
        password: pass
        timeout: 5000
  
    production:
        adapter: postgresql
        encoding: utf8
        database: canvas_production
        host: localhost
        username: canvas
        password: pass
        timeout: 5000