Moodle in English: Moving Versions

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Moving Versions

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Moving Versions

by John Papworth - Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 5:10 PM

Hello

We are building a Moodle installation that I am doing on a dev server - however we have a server that is currently in a production environment (Moodle 3.2) that is being used by learners.

There will be a point up and coming where we want to move the Moodle site from Dev (running 3.4.X) and upgrade the current live one. However, we will want to take the current learners into the upgraded Moodle.

Which is the best approach to take?

Would we be better migrating learner and course data into the new installation - if this is the case, which MySQL fields would be ideally suited to being exported and imported into the new 3.4.X

Thanks In Advance

Regards

John

Re: Moving Versions

by Emma Richardson - Tuesday, April 3, 2018, 6:54 PM

Look at the migration documents. You bring the entire database, the moodle config file and any plugins and the moodle datafolder.

It is normally recommended to migrate first but I normally do what you do, set up the new server, bring down the new moodle code, import my config.php file and plugin folders, copy over the moodledata folder, import the ENTIRE database and then update the config file with new url if there is one and run replace.php on the database.

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