by john Simpson.
Here's an up to date tutorial using ubunt 14.04, and it follows the step by step instructions offered on this forum.
Windows users can follow this by downloading vm virtualbox and then downloading the ubuntu 14.04 server into the virtual machine:There are VM tutorials available, and this would be the easy bit.
vm virtualbox. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
http://docs.moodle.org/26/en/Step-by-step_Installation_Guide_for_Ubuntu