Installing and upgrading help

Thanks for that tip, Marina! Worked like a charm.

thanks Marina very much 

Hi

I Just Want To Test In Windows, i used xampp and this problem ...

I Cant Fix it. Help. In php.ini i cant find database

Excellent, thanks Maria - worked like a charm!

Please clarify about the error issue.

After editing the config.php file I'm receiving the error:

"Config table does not contain version, can not continue, sorry.

More information about this error

It is usually not possible to recover from errors triggered during installation, you may need to create a new database or use a different database prefix if you want to retry the installation."

I clicked on the link and got this:

The most likely cause of this error is that the 'version' key is missing from your configuration dictionary.
Steps to fix:

• Open <moodleinstalldir>/version.php

• Find the value in $version

• Open 'mdl_config' in database manager

• Insert key after last entry with name = 'version' and value = <value found in version.php

Thank you Marina, I looked around and tried at least 20 different configuration, yours worked the first time .

Thank you very very much Marina! I was trying to install different MariaDB versions in order to get rid of the warning message until I found your post.

All the best!

Andreu.-

Excellent, veryyyyyy thanks Maria

thanks so much from Fiji...........was of great help

@Marina Glancy thanks its works perfect

@Marina you said, Hello, you need to edit your config.php and specify database as "mariadb" instead of "mysqli"

How do i go to config.php. Where is it located?

Can you give me a step by step guidance, i am new to this.

Hi there, 

I'm a total newbie at this, and I tried to install moodle on a local server on windows 10 (no one's perfect) (to try it, figure out the pb I could encounter, etc), so I began with Wamp, and it failed, so I migrated to Xampp, and the creation of the localhost worked fine. Until I tried to install moodle, and this error showed up. 

So, firtly, thanks for this post. Then, I chnaged the 'mysqli' to 'mariadb', rebooted apache and mysql (via Xampp), re-entered "localhost/moodle/", and it shows still the same error. Did I do something wrong ?

I noticed someone said to migrate to xampp 5.6 or higher, but I could'nt find it, and the version I've got aired feb 1...

thanks a lot

Thanks Marina, this worked for me, hope we can have a setting for that in in our installation form.

Search for the string "$CFG->dbtype" This should show you the line you're looking to change.

Excellent..!! Thanks, Marina Glancy..!!

Just to clarify with some specific steps. If I left out any, please add them:

By the time the installation stops on the page of server checks, it has already created a moodle folder with a config.php inside it.  

Go to that config.php, open it in an editor, and change the line that specifies the db to mariadb, like this:

$CFG->dbtype    = 'mariadb';

After saving this change, return to the Moodle installation page where it stopped. Reload it.

If all is well, the installation should now continue. 

Thanks, that was really helpful

Awesome! Thanks Maria, That's work for me also 

 Thanks for the tip! I came across it because I initially installed on a MySQL box (and hence chose mysqli as the driver) then moved the site to a different box with Maria DB 10.2.10 before the upgrade to Moodle 3.4. Be good to have this changed / mentioned during the upgrade step, perhaps show the current db driver setting?

hi marina,

my config.php file already "mysqli" present. so why see this problem,

please help me.

thank,

Suchit Nikam

Thank Marina!

Thanks . You  fix my problem

Brilliant Marina, changing from MySQL to Maria solved the problem in a blink.

Thanks maam,i changed mysqli to  mariadb it worked for me

For those using Debian on a common LAMP stack, with default virtual host configuration

cd /var/www/html/moodle

sudo nano php.config

As Marina directs, change the line with mysqli to mariadb and everything works fine.

But have you checked the database type in the config.php file?