I have installed moodle 3.8 and It was running well past 3 months. Recently migrated the server and now there is an error showing "Could not find a top-level course!" Please help me to solve this.
Further it is showing 20mb database in Cpanel , but once I download it , just only 417kb. what was the wrong , Please help me.
Sounds like you suspect migration ... so tell us about how you migrated (from what to what) and how.
There is a reference @
https://docs.moodle.org/39/en/Installation_FAQ#.22Could_not_find_a_top_level_course.22
But that was supposedly fresh install ... although I guess a migration on new server could be considered fresh install.
20MB DB in cPanel but when downloading only 417K is messed up for sure. Open the .sql dump you downloaded in a text editor (it is ascii text). You might see that an error was made using mysqldump ... if DB is MySQL ... mysqldump will function even upon error and dump an .sql file ... the resulting .sql file on error isn't really good for anything but it might give a clue as to why it failed.
'SoS', Ken
Thank you very much for your quick response. My moodle is running one of shared hosting company. they are the one who migrated their server from one location to another . They said that all the files have been restored. I can't find any error in mysqldump file(I'm not families with the structure).
