Installing and upgrading help

I assume that this is on the cheapest hosting plan?  the $3.95 version?

My current host JustHost won't move php up to php version 5.3.x so no Moodle 2.1 for me.

Questions:

1. Why use a different company for the domain name?  What advantage?

This tutorial does NOT make use of a scripting program such as Fantastico or QuickInstall as I believe it is better if the administrator has a little bit of an understanding about what is going on underneath the hood.

One problem with Fantastico Moodle Installers is that I've seen many of them install the moodledata folder right into public_html folder.  Then you have to change the config.php file anyway to point out of the that folder.

But yeah, the other problem is that the versions are usually not up to date.

Hi Tzvi,

I am so grateful for the information you provided here.I have been shopping for a host and reading tons of blogs comparing the pros/cons on a number of issues ...because i don't have the confidence of a techie when it comes to choosing a host...Your video is a valuable resource for those of us who would be clueless about the tech side of the process .... 

I have one question in mind at the moment I would appreciate your thoughts on:

I planned to use FatCow recommended by a teacher. I love the fact that it's a local company in Cambridge... But FatCow uses something else (vDesk?) rather than cPanel that you mentioned. I know Bluehost and many others use cPanel... My question is 1) what's the difference between cPanel vs non-cPanel? 2)if I sign up for FatCow, can I still use the instructions you provided in the video and the thread?  Many thanks in advance.

Sasha

Hi,

Firstly, thanks Tzvi. Great video.

I have installed Moodle successfully using cpanel and everything seems to be working ok. During the install however I got the messages below;

I continued with the install and as i said everything seems to be fine I'm just wondering if this will cause me problems in the future? 

Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Could somebody help me? I follow the instruction in your vidio to install Moodle. But the istallation is not complete. After goint to my domain/moodle I have this message:

Notice: Use of undefined constant __DIR__ - assumed '__DIR__' in /homepages/5/d429252556/htdocs/public/moodle/lib/dml/moodle_database.php on line 27

Warning: require_once(__DIR__/database_column_info.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in/homepages/5/d429252556/htdocs/public/moodle/lib/dml/moodle_database.php on line 27

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '__DIR__/database_column_info.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php5') in/homepages/5/d429252556/htdocs/public/moodle/lib/dml/moodle_database.php on line 27

This is exactly what anyone who needs to do an install needs. Finally, after years I am doing this on a hosting server.

Thanks a lot.

Hello,

I have just installed Moodle version 1.9 however someting has not worked correctly. My domain does not support PHP 3.5 and won't for another 2 months so I had to chose this old version. The website is on wordpress. My domain is Crazy Domains and is hosted by Netregistry.

The step you take entering personal information around 8m16s into your video did not happen after my installation. All I can see is a blank page of my website and "Page not found" written in the window tab.

Any suggestions on what I have done wrong or how to fix it would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Jas

Thanks so much for making this video! Without it, I would have been so lost!

A tip for those wanting a plan with Hostgator, etc. but worried about costs. Go in with other teachers under an affiliate program. Only one person needs to have a hosting and the other domains don't cost a penny more!

Thanks very much for this superb video! You have helped me a lot!

This is fantastic! I managed to install moodle onto my shared host by following your video! Thanks so much. saved me A LOT of headache (and possibly money!)

Thanks for the clear tutorial, that easily guides you trough the right steps.

However, I got this error while install moodle in a specific folder via cpanel:

Error: database driver problem detected

The site administrator should verify server configuration

PHP has not been properly configured with the MSSQL extension so that it can communicate with SQL*Server. Please check your php.ini file or recompile PHP

I'm running a informational website on wholesale loose diamonds, www.diamondregistry.com and would like to provide online educational course for registered user only, that's why I have installed moddle in a distinct folder.

Is it not possible to install in a specific folder?
What should i do? 

Many thanks

Thanks, this was helpful. 

Hi Tzvi,

Thank you for the video.

I am trying to follow the steps you've shown in your video and ones that I've read on Moodle forums, but at the 'Database settings step', I keep getting this error every time I try to go forward:

"Error: Database connection failed
It is possible that the database is overloaded or otherwise not running properly.
The site administrator should also check that the database details have been correctly specified in config.php

Warning: mysqli::mysqli(): (28000/1045): Access denied for user 'seniorwa_pranay'@'localhost' (using password: YES) in/home/seniorwa/public_html/moodle/lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php on line 76"

Contrary to what they say on the documentation page, the setup does not create a config.php file.

I did edit the config-dist.php file to enter all the required details like my database name, the database username, the password etc.

Upon reading suggestions on the Installation support page, I tried 2 approaches:

i. Renaming the config-dist.php file to config.php, which leads to the installation not starting at all and a database connection error at the outset.

ii. Tried keeping both files, config-dist.php and config.php in the Moodle directory, which leads to the same error as I've mentioned above in orange.

I have set the following parameters in my config.php and config-dist.php (they are identical)

$CFG->dbtype    = 'mysqli';      // 'pgsql', 'mysqli', 'mssql', 'sqlsrv' or 'oci'

$CFG->dblibrary = 'native';     // 'native' only at the moment

$CFG->dbhost    = 'localhost';  // eg 'localhost' or 'db.isp.com' or IP

$CFG->dbname    = 'seniorwa_moodle';     // database name, eg moodle

$CFG->dbuser    = 'seniorwa_pranay';   // your database username

$CFG->dbpass    = '<system generated password>';   // your database password

$CFG->prefix    = 'mdl_'; 

CFG->dboptions = array(

    'dbpersist' => false,       

    'dbsocket'  => false,       

    'dbport'    => '', 

);

$CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://seniorsoncall.co.in/moodle';

$CFG->dataroot  = '/home/seniorwa/moodledata';

$CFG->directorypermissions = 02777;

$CFG->admin = 'admin';

require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/lib/setup.php');

Will it be possible for you to share a sample config.php file you used for your installations in the past?

I have been at this since a couple of days now and would really appreciate any kind of help or guidance from anyone on this.

Thank you!