General help

Qualification for this response: I don't run ubuntu, but ... If moodle was originally installed via apt-get and one is having issues, wonder if the apt-get method of installation/maintaining is not questionable in the future as well. Sometimes following the recommendations for installations (even though there might be 'easy buttons' and 'one click installers' and packages that 'provide it all') are best followed ... for initial install as well as future updates/upgrades and migrations. If one already has PHP, MySQL, and Apache, all one needs is the moodle code and it's easy to manually setup a moodle using git. Learning that process, which isn't that steep, means one might be better off in acquiring updates/upgrades when the time comes. Got the following by googling: All actions with apt (apt-get) are logged. These files are available in /var/log/apt/. To view the most recent history log, execute: less /var/log/apt/history.log These logs gets rotated (every month I guess), old files will be suffixed with a number and compressed. So to view the next history log, use: zless /var/log/apt/history.log.1.gz To view the logs available: ls -la /var/log/apt/ Do apt-get installations of web based apps tag all files with appropriate ownership/permissons? I run CentOS (preference, not a recommendation for all). Have gotten out of some pickles because of that, me thinks! my 2 cents, of course! In the 'spirit of sharing', Ken