ILIAS Hosting
ILIAS is an open-source learning management system for courses, study programs, tests, surveys, learning modules, portfolios, personal workspaces, collaboration, communication, and structured online or blended learning. It is designed for substantial education and training environments with detailed roles and configurable learning workflows.
ILIAS suits universities, schools, public agencies, businesses, and training organizations that need a feature-rich self-hosted LMS with granular permissions, assessments, learning content, collaboration, and program management. Current releases have significant server and administration requirements, so the platform is best managed by an experienced technical team.

ILIAS Overview and Features
Who ILIAS Is For
ILIAS suits universities, schools, public agencies, businesses, and training organizations that need a feature-rich self-hosted LMS with granular permissions, assessments, learning content, collaboration, and program management. Current releases have significant server and administration requirements, so the platform is best managed by an experienced technical team.
ILIAS is free and open-source software distributed under the GNU General Public License version 3. Retain the license supplied with the release and review separate terms for learning content, plugins, custom styles, conferencing, identity services, media tools, and other integrations.
Maintenance and Compatibility Notice
ILIAS is actively maintained and publishes version-specific installation, upgrade, release, and security documentation. Major upgrades must follow each supported version in sequence; official guidance says not to skip a major release. Test plugins, custom styles, migrations, search, certificates, background jobs, and external services before changing production.
Course and program management
Organize courses, groups, study programs, learning objectives, and structured activities.
Tests and surveys
Build assessments, question pools, surveys, grading workflows, and result reports.
Learning content
Create learning modules and deliver supported documents, media, and packages.
Portfolios and workspaces
Give users personal areas for files, portfolios, blogs, and selected learning resources.
Collaboration and communication
Support forums, mail, groups, calendars, and learning communities.
Granular permissions
Control access through detailed roles and permissions across repository objects.
Choose a ILIAS Hosting Plan
Compare expected learners or visitors, concurrent activity, learning or collection files, reports, database growth, email, scheduled tasks, and backup retention. Choose enough capacity for normal 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 ILIAS
University learning environments
Support courses, programs, assessments, resources, and academic collaboration.
Professional training
Deliver structured workplace, certification, compliance, and continuing-education programs.
Public-sector learning
Manage controlled training and knowledge programs for agencies and institutions.
Assessment portals
Run configured tests, question pools, surveys, and reporting workflows.
Installing ILIAS
RSH Web Services offers ILIAS 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
ILIAS requirements are release-specific and more extensive than a basic PHP site. Official ILIAS 11 guidance lists PHP 8.3 or 8.4, MySQL newer than 8.0.21 or MariaDB 10.5 through 11.8, Apache or Nginx, required PHP extensions, Composer, and additional tools. It recommends at least a dual-core CPU, 4 GB RAM, and suitable storage.
Setup Checklist
Configure administrator credentials, user roles, content, upload limits, mail, scheduled tasks, and backups that apply to this platform. Test user, publishing, assessment, reporting, or collection workflows with non-administrator accounts before production use.
Migrating or Upgrading ILIAS
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 ILIAS before manual steps. Follow the documented version path and test users, roles, content, enrollments or collections, reports, integrations, and scheduled tasks on a private copy. Softaculous upgrades ILIAS only; it does not convert another educational or publishing platform into ILIAS.
ILIAS Security
Restrict access to trusted users, use unique credentials, apply least-privilege application and filesystem roles, protect personal 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 or collections, enrollments, grades where used, uploaded files, published 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 or collections, enrollments, assessments, files, reports, and scheduled tasks work together.
All ILIAS 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.
ILIAS Resources
Existing software and hosting resources: Softaculous, Firewall, Security and DDoS, (cPanel), cPanel Demo here.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How should roles be configured in ILIAS?
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 ILIAS 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 ILIAS manage learner enrollment?
ILIAS 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 ILIAS 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 ILIAS 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 ILIAS?
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 ILIAS 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 ILIAS 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 ILIAS 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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