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Open edX installation and configuration

1  Introduction According to the [homepage],  “The Open edX platform is a free--and open source--course management system (CMS) that was originally developed by edX. The Open edX platform is used all over the world to host Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as smaller classes and training modules.” The following content will apply to a May 2018 Ginko 2-4 installation on Ubuntu 16LTS. The Eucalyptus (2017) was described  here . See also: Open edX 2  Installation of the Bitnami stack There are  many different ways to install and run an edX server . As of March 31 2017, we managed to install a Bitnami stack as described below.  As of May 2018  some contents below are outdated. Use with care. We got it from here: https://bitnami.com/stack/edx Log onto your server machine and use something like: wget https://bitnami.com/redirect/to/193216/bitnami-edx-ginkgo.2-4-linux-x64-installer.run We also suggest to read the official...