Moodle 18 Upgrade issues

Moodle 18 Upgrade issues

by Stuart Purvis -
Number of replies: 1

Hi all

I have Moodle 1.7 installed and running okay on our server, we have done a few modifactions to themes and add alot of courses as you would and at moment all is well.

What i want to do is install moodle 1.8 on to same server but ratther having to reinstall themes and mods and course etc I want to use same database and same data folder as the 1.7.

So i installed moodle 18 by unziping it into its own folder and then copying the config.php from 1.7 and just modify the config.php in the 1.8 folder to reflect it root change but left the data directory and dbase settings the same.

How ever when i try and go to the moodle homepage http://intranet/moodle18 I get Permission error 403 page.

What is wrong?

can install be done this way

If not how can i put another copy of moodle on system but get it to use the same data folder and database or will i need to duplicate data folder and database and then edit config.php to reflect this.

Or can i do a complete install ie create database from within  moodle18 and also create empty data folder then when fresh install done just copy the old data folder and import the moodle 1.7 database into the moodle 1.8 database.

Thanks

Stuart

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In reply to Stuart Purvis

Re: Moodle 18 Upgrade issues

by Richard Enison -

SP,

Just out of idle curiosity, (assuming your web server s/w is Apache) did you add directives to the Apache httpd.conf so that it would allow web access to Moodle18?

Other than that, I'm not sure I would want to have two Moodles sharing the same data folder and the same database with the same prefix, but I can't think of any reason you couldn't. That doesn't mean there isn't any. It just means I'm not quite a Moodle expert yet.

RLE

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