Installing WeBWorK from a Virtual Machine Image

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Overview

After installing from a WeBWorK Virtual Machine Image, you will have a full fledged Ubuntu Server LTS system with WeBWorK, Apache2, MariaDB, R server, lighttpd, log rotation, etc. installed and configured. If your network uses DHCP, networking will be automatically configured for your system. If it uses static IP addresses, you will have to configure networking.

WeBWorK Virtual Machine Images

Current Virtual Machine Images

  • WeBWorK 2.16 Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS Virtual Machine Image: These instructions cover the installation of the Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS operating system and WeBWorK 2.15 using the WeBWorK Virtual Machine Image. It is imperative that you CHANGE THE DEFAULT PASSWORDS for the OS users root and wwadmin (which has sudo privileges), for the MySQL users root and webworkWrite, and for the WeBWorK user admin which has professor privileges. See the specific instructions below.

After installing this image, you will have a full fledged Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS system with WeBWorK, Apache2, MySQL, R server, lighttpd, log rotation, etc. installed and configured.

Older Available Virtual Machine Images

Older No Longer Available Virtual Machine Images


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