Open edX Installation Guide

By finishing this article you'll install your own production-ready learning management system.

What is open edX?

open edX is an open source alternative to proprietary software such as Blackboard or Udemy. It provides a flexible and scalable learning platform that can be applied in schools, colleges, and universities all around the world. Open edX is being used by 55 million students, all around the world

This article will show you how to install Open edx on your Ubuntu server and start building courses.

You can find more information about open edX on their official website.

What you are going to learn ?

Today I am going to be showing you how to install production ready open edx on your Ubuntu server and start building courses.

I'll show you what is needed for the installation, how to install it, and how your server will look once it's finished.

Requirements

Ubuntu 20.04 amd64

Minimum 8GB of memory

At least one 2.00GHz CPU

Minimum 50GB recommended for production servers

Installation Steps

First make sure you have SSH access to the server and then SSH to the server.

Install wget if it's not installed already

Install open edx

The above command downloads and run following script

This script:

updates and upgrades the Ubuntu packages

Prepare ansible environment in your server to install open edx

Create strong passwords for open edx services

Installs open edx

Install our theme for open edx

How should it look like

After successful installation your open edx instance should like our demo site here

What is next

We are writing another article to teach you how to generate SSL certs for your instance, set Domain names and create admin users.
Check this tweet to see how we improved open edx default UI by using Nextjs and Strapi

If you need any help contact us at [email protected]