Am not a developer, but recently had to rebuild a site with versions 3.4 and 3.5 instances.
Had troubles with getting Solr Search running ....
Docs on Moodle
Setting up Solr
https://docs.moodle.org/35/en/Global_search
The latest Solr 5 available version is the recommended one.
Moodle supports Solr server from 4.0 onwards, although you can only use the Solr schema setup script that we provide with Moodle from Solr 5. The latest Solr 5 available version is the recommended one; the same will apply to Solr 6 once it is released.
Solr 7 is not currently supported as the field type 'int' has been removed.
http://apache.org/dist/lucene/solr/
one can find a 5.5.5 version and a 6.6.5 version
I made the mistake of attempting 7.4.0 ... should know better ... a 'point 0' :\
While I could get the 7.4.0 installed, could never generate a moodle34 or moodle35 index and thus never really get the moodles setup.
Uninstalled 7.4 ... manually (ugh).
So looked up my old notes and decided to use a 5.5.5 version.
Success!
'spirit of sharing', Ken
And a follow up ... the screen captures shared in your link ... 1st one showed 'checks'. You then said you address those and shared a 2nd screen capture which looks to me to be exactly the same ... the 'checks' are still there. Mistake?
There are some command line scripts located in moodlecode/admin/cli that will help you set correct character set and collation to your DB. As I understand it, character set and collation settings are at 3 levels ... the database, the tables in the database, and the columns in the tables. Those CLI scripts are a time saver as they recurse down into the columns of the tables themselves.
check_database_schema.php, mysql_collation.php, mysql_compressed_rows.php, and
mysql_engine.php are the specific scripts.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
Thanks, Ken. I sent your post to my hosting company's technical support team. I'll let you know if it fixes the problem.
Hello Larry. Sorry I am not a technical person so I can't help in that respect (I'll leave that to Ken) but I just wanted to clarify - as you are using Moodle 3.5 - which search engine are you using for your Global search? Knowing that with 3.5 you can use "simple search" and not need Solar.
@Larry ... think I'd opt for Simple Search and skip solr. That being the case, think fixing those 'checks' for database would be more important now.
@Mary ... thanks for reminding ... was so focused on the other couldn't see the forest for the trees! :\
'spirit of sharing', Ken
