How do I create an e-learning website?

If you want to sell one by one course use Moodle and a Paypal plugin + a Pro Theme (all FREE you have to pay for theme)

If you want to have an eshop to sell courses and may be more you can use

WordPress a good one is LearnDash plugin another is LearnPress (see web)

Joomla an economy one with quickstart to build the site fast is SP LMS

Drupal see sites like Themeforest for ready solutions

Otherwise you must write the code. In Udemy there is one in CodeIgniter 3 and more tutorials.

For WordPress there are also FREE solutions see Youtube for free tutorials.