New server being set up for Moodle

New server being set up for Moodle

by Debbie Unterseher -
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The IT department is setting up a new server for us to move our production Moodle site to.  We have been using Moodle for at least 5 years, and are currently using Moodle 3.2.6  It currently uses MariaDB - the new server will be MySQL. A couple other changes that I can't remember.  They also want to set it up so we can use GIT to update the server.  

What process should be taken to copy the database that we have currently on our production server over to the new server that will be set up with Moodle 3.5?  Anything we should be aware of when doing this?  


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Re: New server being set up for Moodle

by Howard Miller -
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MariaDB and MySQL should be completely compatible. However, I would test it and satisfy yourself it all works properly.  Just using mysqldump should do the job. 

Using Git is sensible but make sure you set up the web server to make the .git directory inaccessible over the internet.  

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