I am currently running a moodle on a windows server with IIS 2003. Running windows package of Moodle 2.1.1+ (Build: 20110803)., and I am having an issue I don't know how to solve. I am using if for some of my classes and giving in classes quizess and such. Well, when I switched to moodle 2.1.1 from 1.9.7+, which I had none of these problems with. Now when I have the about 11 students login to take the quiz and are all on the quiz at the same time it goes fine for awhile then apache stops working. I have to go on the server and start apache again. I have looked in the httpd.conf file and see no setting like in my 1.9.7+ for number of inquirees. I have looked something about MaxClient setting, but I don't know where to find that. Can anyone help me.
Are you getting any errors in your Apache error log? Crashes?
Could you walk me through and tell me where to find the error logs??
The Apache error log is typically located under (Apache installation folder)/logs/error.log
If it isn't located there, the path should be defined in your httpd.conf file. That file is typically located under (Apache installation folder)/conf.
> Could you walk me through and tell me where to find the error logs??
That server is not in the public Internet, is it!
Seriously, if you maintain a production server you need to understand it. You have a good example at hand to know why. A bad example would be a hacker attack.
Which system does not matter, as long as you understand it. If both worlds, Windows server and Lnux server, are new to you, you might as well start as Jim did. (@Jim, bump on Ubuntu server tutoriials).
I know people advertise on "one click", "fool proof" installations and forget that these things have to be maintained for years.
I wish you luck.
A few months ago I had the EXACT same server setup, close to the EXACT Moodle version, and had the EXACT same problem (Apache stopping while running a quiz).
Knowing that Moodle was not REALLY created to run in a windows environment (although they say that it will run fine) I resorted to reformatting the server with Ubuntu (it uses a GUI and makes it seem like a windows machine) and I have not had ONE single problem (now that I have have said that it will probably blow up .
Sorry I don't have an answer, but I did feel your pain.
Jim
> A few months ago I had the EXACT same server setup, close to the EXACT Moodle version, and had the EXACT same problem (Apache stopping while running a quiz).
Could you pl. post the link to that discussion?
> Knowing that Moodle was not REALLY created to run in a windows environment (although they say that it will run fine)
Where is that written? I'm asking because there are people who run big installations in the order of 10'000 users in the "Windows-based servers" forum http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=6799
> I resorted to reformatting the server with Ubuntu (it uses a GUI and makes it seem like a windows machine)
You must have installed a "desktop" version, the Ubuntu _server_ http://www.ubuntu.com/business/server/overview has no GUI by default.
> and I have not had ONE single problem (now that I have have said that it will probably blow up smile.
Waau, that is a good recommendation! Could you post hier the tutorials or whatever literature you use for guidance?
@Mark
It might be useful to post a link to this discussion in the "Windows-based servers" forum, mentioning that the follow up is here.