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- JW's video will undoubtedly help you. If you want a second opinion or a video narrated with a British accent, there's Eric Hagley's video that the Moodle docs link to in the third paragraph of the main Installing Moodle page, which brings me to:
- The closest thing to a general purpose step-by-step guide in text is the doc page http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_Moodle. Any step-by-step guide you find in the forum will probably be designed for a specific question about a particular server environment described by the original poster (such as yourself). Problem is, you didn't describe your server environment. More about that later.
- To answer your specific question, the web server documents directory is the main directory (folder) of your website, where your home page is located. Which is why http://yourserver.com, typed into a browser address box, takes you there. Obviously, "webserver.com" stands for whatever the URL of your website is. And absolutely not, it is not in the same fixed location on all computers. It depends on what operating system your computer is running, what web server software (s/w), and aside from that, you can change it to just about any folder you want by changing the web server s/w configuration, if the server is your computer. If you are using a web hosting service, which you, as a newbie, probably are unless you are installing a stand-alone Moodle on your home computer for practice, experimentation, etc., you are probably stuck with what they tell you is your web document root. (JW's and EH's videos are designed for Moodlers using a web hosting service with cPanel. EDIT: I went to JW's website to confirm whether he also has a video for install a home version, but it is down.) These are all questions that are part of what I meant by your server environment
Finally, if you want people to be able to give you step-by-step instructions appropriate for your particular environment, you've got to tell us about it. We can't read your mind. Here is my standard barrage of questions I use to beat newbies over the head because they haven't described their environment (you might find it useful):
What version of Moodle did you install? Was it generic or a Windows or Mac package?
What operating system? (Windows, Linux, etc.) What version?
Is it on the Internet, a LAN, or just your home PC for practice and testing? Is it your server or are you using a web hosting service?
What web server s/w (Apache, IIS, etc.)? What version?
What type of database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)? What version?
What version of PHP?
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