Hello,
I'm attempting to upgrade a development test environment of mine from 3.5 to 3.5.1. I am currently using InMotion Hosting's shared server plan. I previously installed straight to 3.5 using their "Softaculous" app. It installed 3.5 fine, but in trying to upgrade it through the moodle Admin panel, it's telling me the following error check: "
Name: Database
Information: mariadb
Report: version 5.5.31 is required and you are running 5.5.5.10.2.12
So it sounds like the DB on the shared server is out of date and I might be out of luck because the shared server DB cannot be changed. My old environment (the live site) is on Moodle 2.5 which is very old, and ALSO says the same thing when trying to upgrade to 2.6. Yet here I am with a 3.5 seemingly working environment on my test environment (on the same account and shared server). I just ran the upgrade to 3.5.1 through Softaculous and the upgrade instructed me to change '$CFG->dbtype = 'mysqli';' to $CFG->dbtype = 'mariadb'; and that error went away.
So my question is "what gives...?" The Moodle admin panel seemed like it was saying the servers DB was out of date, but really I just needed to change some config.php line? Is my site not going to work properly because I'm on an old mariadb or is that error message benign?