Novice Trying to set up Moodle for the first time!

[GiddyTea]

Hello. I've been tasked with setting up a Moodle server for a college, and as it is, we're currently just testing things to see if we can get things working properly. We're trying to use Moodle 2.7 on a Windows Server 2008 machine, and the files I'd found extracted properly and allowed us through the installation process. But trying to access the home page of the server causes the tab to hang until it stops, telling us the page is caught in a redirect loop. Restarting the Moodle server hasn't helped, and we're at a loss of what to do now. Is there any way to get around this issue?

[danbuntu]

have you confirmed that php is set up correctly.

 

if you remove all the moodle files and just put in a simple index.php does that load correctly. if not try with an index.htm file

[rob_coles]

Any particular reason your using windows to host?

 

Reason I ask is that our first moodle was on windows and I would have saved so much time and hassle if Id started with Ubuntu.

 

So much quicker and with php and mysql being native to nix.

 

Just a thought. There is a loads of lamp install guides kicking about

[Trojan]

I recently set up Moodle on ubuntu from scratch following this guide Installation on Ubuntu using Git - MoodleDocs

 

It worked very well (with a few minor tweaks for HTTP proxies) and it was pretty easy.