Thanks for the quick reply Jon, will take a look in the file.
The person who set up the website used XAMPP and it is now in a production environment for some crazy reason, and has been for quite some time.
i'm looking to set up a new environment for it using Apache, MySQL and PHP as individual applications/services and use Moodle installer 28 after which i will migrate the old database over to the new environment; I'm trying to take steps to make the resource fit and proper for the environment it is being used in. Do you think this sounds feasible? Any pointers to reading material which would help would be gratefully received as outwith using it a number of year ago in further education i'm new to the server side configuration of it!