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File upload: "A required parameter was missing"

by Rolf Grau - Friday, March 19, 2004, 3:44 AM

We have been testing moodle for some month now (version 1.1.1), and everything

worked fine, until recently, when we started to have the following problem:

Trying to upload a file, everything seems to work fin, but at the end we get the

error message "A required parameter was missing", and nothing was uploaded

Sometimes we get the error "The PHP server variable 'file_uploads' is not turned On - please read the install documentation", but we have gone through the installation process

again many times, and we just cannot see any error

Moreover... everthing was working fine for quite some time, and we are not conscious

of any change done to the system that might change the behaviour of Moodle...

Any clue about what is going on and how to solve this?

Thanks in advance for your quick reply.

Rolf

Re: File upload: "A required parameter was missing"

by Rolf Grau - Friday, March 19, 2004, 11:20 AM

Hi again

I have already found the solution

...anyway, I hope this will help you to improve next release installation instructions ;)

When I first installed moodle, we only wanted to give it a first try, without worring too much about correct and secure installation. When we found it really interesting, I reviewed the installation instruction, copied the htaccess file of the lib subdirectory and edited the file size.

Now... it happens that on our installation (Apache 1x, PHP4...) the values given to the variables in lib/htaccess don't work, because they are expressed in '1' and '0'. Our installation needs these values to be 'on' or 'off' in order to work. It took some time for us to try this...

So it would be good idea to lead the attention of the installer to this detail in the installation instructions ;)

Regards,

Rolf

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