ISP Limitations - MariaDB (Antelope)

ISP Limitations - MariaDB (Antelope)

by Alain Jacquet -
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I am trying to get a moodle instance set up on a shared webhost platform. There is a limitation on the way the database can be set up:

1. they use MariaDB (up to date version)

2. The server uses Antelope structure for DB.

The latest versions of Moodle (I tried 3.6.4) all require that the Barracuda file format be used for the Database.


The limitation means that I can't use the latest version of Moodle - but now I'm stuck:

  • Which is the last version that permits you to use the Antelope database structure?

Thanks in advance...............


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Re: ISP Limitations - MariaDB (Antelope)

by Jon Bolton -
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If you're really stuck, you can edit your config.php file and change the dbcollation to this:

dbcollation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci'

Please be aware that this is far from an ideal solution and you may run in to problems in the future with not having full Unicode support or large indexing ability.

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Re: ISP Limitations - MariaDB (Antelope)

by Alain Jacquet -

Hi Jon

Thank you - you've saved my bacon! 

I tried this and I can now install Moodle 3.6.4..... 
I realise there will be challenges or errors, but I suppose I'm not able to avoid that with this ISP setup. 

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