Moodle 2.2.11 not working properly

Moodle 2.2.11 not working properly

by Michael Rothwell -
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Hello!

My Moodle 2.2.11 installation, which has been working fine since I installed it in 2014, has suddenly stopped allowing the creation or updating any items (such as forum messages or assignments).

This problem started around 30th November.

What happens when I attempt to create or update a forum message or assignment (or even a user profile) is that, when I press the button to save my changes, Moodle silently jumps to the Home page, without saving the changes. I say "silently" because unfortunately no error message appears at any level of debugging (even All and Developer).

I therefore have no idea what the nature of the problem is, for example whether there is an incompatibility for example with the PHP (version 5.5.32) on my shared web hosting, or whether there is a problem with my installation.

Any help gratefully would be most welcome!

Thanks

Michael

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Re: Moodle 2.2.11 not working properly

by Michael Rothwell -
Hello again

I also reported this problem to my web hosting company today, and I am pleased to be able to report that they have fixed the problem.

When I asked what the problem was, and what they had to do to fix it, they replied (somewhat cryptically in my view) "We have made some changes in the server settings related to your domain and we are happy that your issue has been fixed."

This may sound a bit paranoid on my part, but if they fixed the problem by changing some server settings, does that mean that Moodle was broken due to some previous changes to server settings?

Has anyone else had a similar issue?

Thanks

Michael
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Re: Moodle 2.2.11 not working properly

by Mike Churchward -
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Support for Moodle 2.2 ended in June 2013 (https://docs.moodle.org/dev/Releases#Moodle_2.2). This means that while the technology that supports it continues to evolve and be upgraded, your code base will not be. There is always a risk that something will upgrade and stop providing a needed function or change it so that it no longer works with your code. For example, new releases of PHP frequently deprecate and remove old functions. If those are used in a Moodle 2.2 codebase, and the server is upgraded (for security, performance or new features), your code could stop working.

You should really plan to upgrade in order to ensure continued operation as well as secure and well performing operation (not to mention, general improvement and new features).

Hope this helps.

mike

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