Claroline Hosting
Claroline is a legacy open-source learning management system for publishing documents, building exercises and learning paths, coordinating groups, collecting assignments, using wikis, running discussions, posting announcements, and reviewing user activity.
The classic Claroline package is relevant primarily to organizations maintaining an established installation or recovering older course data. It should not be confused with newer Claroline-branded platforms, and it is not a prudent choice for a new production LMS that requires current runtime support and dependable security maintenance.

Claroline Overview and Features
Who Claroline Is For
The classic Claroline package is relevant primarily to organizations maintaining an established installation or recovering older course data. It should not be confused with newer Claroline-branded platforms, and it is not a prudent choice for a new production LMS that requires current runtime support and dependable security maintenance.
Classic Claroline is open-source software distributed under the GNU General Public License. Retain the license bundled with the exact release, and separately review the terms for imported course content, themes, extensions, videoconferencing services, and other integrations.
Maintenance and Compatibility Notice
The classic Claroline 1.x application distributed through legacy installer catalogs is outdated and is separate from newer Claroline Connect products. Its public release history and documentation do not demonstrate current security maintenance for modern PHP stacks. Keep it isolated, verify the exact version, and plan migration rather than presenting it as a current new-site platform.
Documents and links
Publish course files, references, and web links for enrolled learners.
Exercises and learning paths
Create online exercises and arrange resources into learning sequences.
Assignments and wikis
Collect learner work and support collaborative course writing.
Groups and discussions
Coordinate group activity through course forums and chat tools.
Agenda and announcements
Schedule activities and communicate course updates.
Users and statistics
Manage participants and review the activity information available in the installed release.
Choose a Claroline Hosting Plan
Compare expected learners, concurrent activity, course files, assessments, reports, database growth, email, scheduled tasks, and backup retention. Choose enough capacity for normal teaching peaks and leave room for imports, updates, and verified restores.
Pro Personal
For portfolios & blogsRenews at $7.99/mo
- 25 GB SSD Storage
- Free Domain Names
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Secure Payment Options
- SiteJet AI Website Builder
- 360 Website Monitoring
- 45 Day Guarantee
- Encrypted Offsite Backups
- Malware Scan - Included
- WordPress - Included
- cPanel Softaculous - Included
- SSL Certificates - Included
- 5 Email Accounts
- 5 Parked Domains
- 5 Sub Domains
- 1 Website
Pro Business
Growing teams & shopsRenews at $10.99/mo
- 50 GB SSD Storage
- Free Domain Names
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Secure Payment Options
- SiteJet AI Website Builder
- 360 Website Monitoring
- 45 Day Guarantee
- Encrypted Offsite Backups
- Malware Scan - Included
- WordPress - Included
- cPanel Softaculous - Included
- SSL Certificates - Included
- 25 Email Accounts
- 25 Parked Domains
- 25 Sub Domains
- 5 Websites
Pro Ultimate
For Unlimited ScaleRenews at $15.99/mo
- Unlimited SSD Storage
- Free Domain Names
- Unmetered Bandwidth
- Secure Payment Options
- SiteJet AI Website Builder
- 360 Website Monitoring
- 45 Day Guarantee
- Encrypted Offsite Backups
- Malware Scan - Included
- WordPress - Included
- cPanel Softaculous - Included
- SSL Certificates - Included
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited Parked Domains
- Unlimited Sub Domains
- Unlimited Websites
Ways to Use Claroline
Maintaining a legacy portal
Keep an existing Claroline course site available during replacement planning.
Course archive recovery
Preserve or export documents, exercises, assignments, accounts, and learning records.
Restricted historical access
Provide private access to older materials without opening the system to public registration.
Migration preparation
Inventory course structures, users, enrollments, files, assessments, and links for transfer.
Installing Claroline
RSH Web Services offers Claroline installation through Softaculous in cPanel. Use the installer first to create the application files and any required database or administrator account. For manual installation, obtain the trusted current package, follow its official instructions, protect configuration and storage paths, and apply only documented permissions. RSH Web Services can help with installation.
Hosting Requirements
Classic Claroline was designed for older PHP and MySQL environments. Exact PHP versions, extensions, database settings, file permissions, mail configuration, and web-server rules depend on the installed release. Do not assume compatibility with a current shared-hosting runtime; reproduce and test the known working stack privately.
Setup Checklist
Configure administrator credentials, instructor and learner roles, courses, enrollment, upload limits, mail, scheduled tasks, and backups that apply to this LMS. Test learning, teaching, grading, and reporting workflows with non-administrator accounts before production use.
Migrating or Upgrading Claroline
Begin with cPanel backups of the application, configuration, database when used, and all managed files. For a Softaculous-managed installation, use only the backup, clone, restore, or upgrade controls displayed for Claroline before manual steps. Follow the documented version path and test users, courses, enrollments, assessments, grades, reports, integrations, and scheduled tasks on a private copy. Softaculous upgrades Claroline only; it does not convert another learning platform into Claroline.
Claroline Security
Restrict access to trusted users, use unique credentials, apply least-privilege application and filesystem roles, protect student records, and secure configuration and uploaded-content paths. Review logs, remove unused accounts, and install supported security updates after testing. Hosting protections add useful layers but cannot repair unsupported application code or prevent damage by an overprivileged account.
Backups and Recovery
Back up the application, configuration, database when used, user accounts, roles, courses, enrollments, grades, uploaded work, learning content, and reports needed for recovery. Keep multiple dated restore points and at least one copy outside the hosting account. Restore a private copy periodically and confirm that users, roles, courses, enrollments, assessments, grades, files, reports, and scheduled tasks work together.
All Claroline Plans Include
DDoS Security Monitoring
A Distributed Denial of Service attack disrupts the operations of a website, server, or network by flooding it with unwanted Internet traffic.
WordPress Easy Install
With cPanel users can install configure, secure, update, and manage WordPress through the WP Toolkit interface.
Secure Email
Access your email program or the online Webmail interface using Secure SSL certification (HTTPS) protocol.
cPanel
With over 80 features to manage all aspects of your hosting account, website, email and domains.
Softaculous App Installer
A time and hassle-saving, automatic script installer with over 380+ scripts, and 1115 PHP classes classes like WordPress
Website Transfers
Free cPanel or WordPress website transfers with no down time, other types of migrations also available.
Spam Assassin
A program used to detect unsolicited, unwanted and virus-infected emails and stop or reject the spam messages.
FTP Access
FTP is a program that allows you to transfer files from your computer to your website.
Site Backups
Backups can be configure with the Backup Wizard in cPanel or right within WordPress.
Free SSL Certificates
Provide secure, encrypted communications between a website and an Internet, RSH Web provides free SSL certs.
Claroline Resources
Existing software and hosting resources: reliable hosting, Softaculous, Firewall, Security and DDoS, (cPanel), cPanel Demo here.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How should roles be configured in Claroline?
Start with the fewest privileges each person needs. Separate platform administrators, course managers, instructors, reviewers, and learners, then test every role with a non-administrator account. Document who can create courses, enroll users, view grades, export reports, manage files, or change integrations. Review access regularly and remove accounts promptly when responsibilities end.
How should a first Claroline course be prepared?
Build a small pilot course before importing an entire catalog. Add clear objectives, a short content sequence, one assessment, learner instructions, and completion criteria. Enroll test users with different roles and verify navigation, mobile access, email, grading, reports, and accessibility. Use pilot feedback to standardize course templates and publishing checks for future instructors.
Can Claroline manage learner enrollment?
Claroline provides enrollment and user-management functions appropriate to its own release, but the available automation and integrations vary. Decide whether enrollment will be handled by administrators, instructors, self-registration, imports, or an external identity or student system. Test duplicate accounts, dropped learners, group membership, notifications, and privacy controls before loading production user data.
What should be tested in Claroline assessments?
Test question display, scoring, attempt limits, timing, feedback, grade calculations, completion rules, and report exports with representative learner accounts. Confirm how interrupted attempts and browser refreshes behave. If questions or results are imported, compare totals and sample records. Keep an independent copy of important question banks and document how corrections affect completed attempts.
How should student data in Claroline be protected?
Collect only information needed for the learning program, limit access by role, use secure administrator accounts, and define retention and deletion procedures. Review exports, logs, messaging, uploaded work, grades, and integrations because each can contain personal information. Apply the privacy, consent, education-record, and breach-notification rules that govern the organization and its learners.
What should I test before updating Claroline?
Create matched backups and reproduce the site in a private staging location. Follow the official path for the exact source and target versions. Test authentication, enrollments, courses, files, assessments, grades, reports, certificates, email, scheduled tasks, themes, plugins, and integrations. Confirm a rollback procedure before applying the update to the production learning site.
Does Claroline replace an independent backup system?
No. An LMS stores connected application files, configuration, database records, uploaded learning materials, assignments, and activity data. Damage to one component can make the others incomplete. Maintain dated backups outside the live account, preserve a consistent recovery point, and periodically restore a private copy to confirm that courses, users, enrollments, grades, and files remain usable.
How do I migrate Claroline to another server?
Inventory the application version, files, database, writable data directories, scheduled tasks, mail settings, domains, certificates, and integrations. Move all connected components from the same recovery point, then update only documented paths and credentials. Test the copy privately and compare users, courses, enrollments, grades, files, and reports before changing DNS or allowing production activity.
How can Claroline be recovered after a failed change?
Stop new activity and preserve the current files, database, logs, and configuration. Restore a matched backup set to a private location, then test logins, roles, courses, enrollments, assessments, grade records, uploads, reports, email, and scheduled tasks. Avoid combining files and databases from different dates. Record the failure cause before attempting the change again.
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