Dear all,
Thanks for this forum. I have already instal moodle 2.2 and its run well for just a few user (less than 5) make a connection simultantly, but if more than 5 students load the questions for the quiz simultantly, the start moodle.exe closed automatically or the screen is blank. I use windows 2003 server as the operating system. What's wrong with the server? please assist me.. thanks
Those Windows packages are really designed to create a small Moodle for playing around with. Personally, I wouldn't use them for running a live site.
Look inside the folder you installed Moodle to. You might find a 'logs' folder with some useful information inside. You could also try the Windows Event Viewer. Some of the logs in there might have some useful information. Go to Start > Run and type eventvwr
I'll repeat my tale of woe: XAMPP on Windows is utterly worthless. In our case, httpd.exe constantly crashed regardless of the optimizations and troubleshooting, apparently due to page loads. Quizzes - which seem to load more components for a web page than anything else - exacerbated the situation markedly.
We moved PHP, MySQL and the data and from XAMPP to IIS7 and it's been rock-solid ever since.
tl;dr: Runf rom XAMPP on Windows. It's just pain masquerading as a dev environment.
