Installing Moodle 3.5

Installing Moodle 3.5

by Tom Waspe -
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I am using a HP 32 bit laptop with Windows 7 and I am trying to install Moodle 3.5 for this stand alone laptop so that I can try Moodle out.  I can download the software, extract the zipped folders and files.  I then start Moodle,exe stop it (Stop.exe) and restart it.  I then open Firefox and enter http://127.0.0.1 in the address bar.  It then takes me some way through the installation on Firefox but then along the way I get a message on Firefox that it cannot access the relevant webpage.  Here is a screenshot:

Screen shot of error message on Firefox


When I install Moodle 1.9 on the same computer I can successfully install Moodle and begin to design courses, but I would like to be able to use the latter versions of Moodle. Please help.  Try and explain the solution to me in plain English! Thanks.

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Re: Installing Moodle 3.5

by Rick Jerz -
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What happens if you type "localhost" into the URL address bar?  Which installer did you use?

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Re: Installing Moodle 3.5

by Germán Valero -
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I had the same problem in a Windows 7 HP workstation.


Looking in the error.log file of apache server, I found:

[Wed Jun 06 19:53:59.750972 2018] [mpm_winnt:notice] [pid 10108:tid 620] AH00428: Parent: child process 10824 exited with status 3221226356 -- Restarting.

I Googled for "exited with status 3221226356" and I went to the the page at:

http://www.codexpedia.com/apache-server/parent-child-process-exited-with-status-3221225725-restarting-on-xamp-apache/ 

Where I found:

"This problem often happens in Windows because of smaller Apache’s default stack size. And it usually happens when working with php code that allocates a lot of stacks.

To solve this issue, add the following at the end of apache config file, httpd.conf

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<IfModule mpm_winnt_module>
   ThreadStackSize 8888888
</IfModule>

AND restart apache."


I did so, and my local Moodle 3.5 server under Windows 7 seems to be working again smile


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