Windows server: Installation and configuration of Moodle on Windows

Windows server: Installation and configuration of Moodle on Windows

by Dushyant Shindikar -
Number of replies: 4

Hi

We have envieonment of Moodle 2 front end web server and one of them is our Databse server and moodledata server. This is installaed on the Windows 2008 R2.

Server 1    Moodle Front end,Databse and moodledata

Server 2   Moodle Front end server

We are facing problem with permission. We mapp the Server 1 which is moodledata folder on Server 2.  We have done the changes in the config.php but when we try to access it gives me error as follows.

Fatal error: $CFG->dataroot is not writable, admin has to fix directory permissions! Exiting. 

Where we need to give permission and how?

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Re: Windows server: Installation and configuration of Moodle on Windows

by Luis de Vasconcelos -

$CFG->dataroot in your config.php file should be pointing to a specific directory on your server (or file server). Make sure that that folder is writeable by the web user (e.g. IUSR if you're running IIS).

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Re: Windows server: Installation and configuration of Moodle on Windows

by James Cracknell -

Add IUSR to a Security group and then give the datadir full permissions for that group.

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Re: Windows server: Installation and configuration of Moodle on Windows

by Dushyant Shindikar -
Thanks for the rply How to make it writable
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Re: Windows server: Installation and configuration of Moodle on Windows

by Stephen Bloomer -

I was under the impression that you could not have 2 front end servers in a windows environment(but I could be wrong).  I run one back end server with just the db and one front server with IIS/PHP and the moodledata. 

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