What is going on with download.moodle.org?

What is going on with download.moodle.org?

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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https://download.moodle.org brings one huge banner with only Moodle 2.8 on it. There are no immediate links to earlier versions. I saw in some recent discussions that one has to visit https://download.moodle.org/releases/security/ and https://download.moodle.org/releases/legacy/ to find them. But from where are they linked? https://download.moodle.org/releases/ is broken.

Was it that way all the time? I don't think so. https://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_Moodle jumps to https://docs.moodle.org/28/en/Installing_Moodle and under "Download and copy files into place" there is the link http://moodle.org/downloads which misteriously jums to https://download.moodle.org/ with that huge 2.8 banner!

Has download.moodle.org been hijacked? In fact https://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_Moodle warns, "IMPORTANT: While there are now a number of places you can get the Moodle code, you are strongly advised to obtain Moodle from moodle.org."
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Re: What is going on with download.moodle.org?

by Tim Hunt -
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On the right of https://download.moodle.org/releases/latest/ look at the releases block.

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Re: What is going on with download.moodle.org?

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Found the path! The problem was, starting from https://download.moodle.org/ I didn't think of passing that huge banner, visit the link "Latest release" https://download.moodle.org/releases/latest/ under the banner first to find information about "Other supported releases". Well, I may not be the typical visitor, they come from "Goodle"!

My other question, was it this way all the time, or was there a major overhaul recently?
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Re: What is going on with download.moodle.org?

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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May be, we all need to keep an eye on support forums: Read for example, "Can someone provide me a link to moodle 2.2, I cannot find it, just going around in circles" https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=280159#p1203925.
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Re: What is going on with download.moodle.org?

by Tim Hunt -
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Go to https://download.moodle.org/releases/supported/

Right click on Download ZIP, and choose Copy link location.

Paste somewhere like here: https://download.moodle.org/download.php/stable27/moodle-latest-27.zip


I will let you guess how to get the 2.2.x release.

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Re: What is going on with download.moodle.org?

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Some communication mishap: a) I do not guess. b) I have no need to right click on anything, c) not to speak of pasting! I use Git and fairly GUI agnostic.

Perhaps the quote misled you. It was one Mr Mark T10686 from UK https://moodle.org/user/profile.php?id=1915393 in distress: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=280159#p1203925.

Even that one is not important. It was brought as an example to point out the kind of problems new comers have with celebrated "Downloads site makeover" https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=268774.

What we now need is to get the PHMs mobilized to cut and paste your post in the help forums. Appreciate Helen's efforts to keep the PHMs busy!
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Re: What is going on with download.moodle.org?

by Mauno Korpelainen -

There is one particular version I have never managed to find - version 1.0 (it would be fun to test it) smile

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=31 gives a link but it's not working anymore.

I have used links like

https://download.moodle.org/stable13/

... stable14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28

to check some old releases but "stable" versions 1.0 to 1.2 are not found with this folder structure.

You are probably right and some important versions could be easier to find - for example Moodle docs tell to upgrade old versions to latest 1.9.X, (2.1.X), 2.2.X, before upgrading to latest versions but documentation does not tell where to find these releases (only give link to download.moodle.org with the latest release).


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Re: What is going on with download.moodle.org?

by Nicolas Martignoni -
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Well, musing in the git server, I got this, which seems to be Moodle 1.0. smile

http://git.moodle.org/gw?p=moodle.git;a=snapshot;h=d15eb5d3c3a5f95194d7fb7b58d02ac6c395a449;sf=tgz

Maybe worth a try wink

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Re: What is going on with download.moodle.org?

by Mauno Korpelainen -
Nicolas,

cand you extract that file? I have tried to extract the package but get errors saying the package is corrupt ?
Is there any zip archieve available?
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Re: What is going on with download.moodle.org?

by Richard Oelmann -
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I was able to unpack it fine on a Linux box - haven't tried installing it yet, but it extracted OK

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Re: What is going on with download.moodle.org?

by Nicolas Martignoni -
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Yes Mauno, I could extract it on a Mac OS X box without problem.

It's a tar.gz file (not a ZIP). If you work on Windows, 7Zip should extract it correctly.

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Re: What is going on with download.moodle.org?

by Mauno Korpelainen -
It was a Windows issue - programs like Winzip and WinRar failed but 7-zip was able to extract files.

Of course I had to test installing right away - and feel the newbie pain when everything failed big grin

Short tags in php, too new versions of php, mysql, IIS 7.5, no error messages but white screen - and finally very user friendly docs telling what it should have looked:

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Well, I must say I had some nostalgic memories from versions 1.4 & 1.6 & 2.0 ( Déjà-vu big grin ) but this version needs an OLD test box!!!

To original question about downloads main page - from new visitors point of view it might be easier to have content of https://download.moodle.org/ and https://download.moodle.org/releases/latest/ with side blocks on the same (one) page to save time and clicks. In any case home page and documentation of moodle.org has a lot more information than 10 years ago wink
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