Installing and upgrading help

JB,

I've learned quite a bit from reading your last post. For starters,

1. The last time someone pasted such a long file into a post instead of attaching it, it was cut short after about 30 lines with a nasty note from Helen Foster saying, in effect, naughty, naughty, don't do that. I guess she hasn't seen yours yet!  Fortunately, I have the full text of your post as an e-mail so I won't have a problem seeing your whole httpd.conf file if I need to after that happens.
2. To make matters worse, you added to httpd.conf (the only one I asked for) the index.php files from Moodle and Focus, which I did not ask for and don't need to see. If you were going to add anything there are other pieces of information that would have been more useful, but more about that later. I mean, I have Moodle on my computer, although it is not exactly the same version you have, and every version of Moodle is available online. And I certainly have no need to see the source code of Focus, although I did glance at it and it pretty much confirmed what I gathered from the msg. in your post, namely, that it is the main file in that program.
3. Anyway, to answer your questions, attaching a file is the easiest thing in the world. Right now I am typing this post into a relatively large text box. Just below that box is a yellow picture of a keyboard, with a question mark on the left side of it. Below that are three lines, and below that is the "Post to forum" button. The last of those three lines says "Attachment (Max size: 100KB)" followed by a yellow circular icon with a question mark in it, followed by a one-line text box, followed by a button that says Browse.... Clicking that button should bring up a dialog box like a typical Open File box in any Windows program. You should be able to navigate to the folder where the file you want to attach is located, then select the file itself from the file list box, scrolling it if necessary (in my case, it has a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom by default, but that would change to a vertical one if I selected a detailed list view). Finally, click the Open button just above the Cancel button in the lower right corner of the dialog box. Note: my browser is IE7. If you are using a different browser, the appearance of the dialog box may be different, but the functionality should be the same.
4. You are the first person in almost a year to ask about my icon. Actually, it is supposed to be an infinity clock. I created it from a clip-art file of a clock by erasing the hands and pasting an infinity symbol on it.
5. I wasn't sure whether there might be any private info in the file. I'm not the world's expert on Apache, but I know enough to be able to read the file and understand what most of the important lines mean, with the help of the manual, which I have downloaded on my PC. I said that because some files contain passwords and usernames that you wouldn't want to make public.
6. I found the DirectoryIndex directive in the file. It explains why you would type http://stpb00/index.php to get into Focus instead of just http://stpb00/. In an earlier post you said index.php was the default, but that's hard to believe because the DirectoryIndex directive I found specifies the default as index.html. Most websites have at least two choices (it will use the second if it doesn't find the first), namely index.html and index.htm. It is not unusual to see two other alternatives: default.html and default.htm. But your volunteer saw fit to limit it to just index.html. Is there a file by that name in the folder where Focus is rooted? I didn't think so. Here is my suggestion: find the line that says
   DirectoryIndex index.html
   and change it to
   DirectoryIndex index.php
   or at least
   DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
7. There is only one reason why you got the error msg. you did when you typed http://stpb00/moodle/login/index.php: the file isn't there. If Moodle were rooted in that moodle folder, it should be there. The reason it isn't there, I suspect, is that you created a subfolder named moodle and unzipped the Moodle zip file there. Well, the top level folder you get when you unzip that file is called moodle, and that's where the main php files are. Which means you should be able to get the login file by typing http://stpb00/moodle/moodle/login/index.php. If you do that now, you will get a different error msg., because you undoubtedly haven't installed Moodle yet.
8. Which brings me to the fact that moodle/login/index.php is not the main file of Moodle. That honor goes to moodle/index.php. If you run that file now (don't forget the second "moodle/"), it will discover that the file config.php in the moodle folder doesn't exist, because Moodle hasn't been installed, and it will automatically turn control over to install.php to begin the installation process, but you are not ready to do that yet. First you need to create a Moodle data folder, and a database. For more details, see http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installing_Moodle.
9. After you change the DirectoryIndex directive, and restart Apache, you should be able to start Focus by typing http://stpb00/, and Moodle by typing http://stpb00/moodle/moodle. If you move all the files and subfolders in C:\apache\htdocs\moodle\moodle (that is where it is, right? Learned that from httpd.conf too) to C:\apache\htdocs\moodle, you should be able to just type http://stpb00/moodle to run Moodle. Later, you might want to talk to your network person about getting a domain name for Moodle that would map to http://stpb00/moodle, maybe called stpbmoodle. Then, after some more monkeying around with httpd.conf, you would only need to type http://stpbmoodle/.
10. See? I told you I would be better able to help you after I saw httpd.conf. Whew!

RLE