Installing and upgrading help

SH,

I see from your php info file that you are using PHP version 5.2.3. That's good. That's the latest major version (5.2). That also tells me you only have one active PHP configuration file (php.ini). The php info file also tells me where it is: C:\PHP\php.ini. This would seem to suggest that the server is yours (not a commercial web host) and that you should have access to that file. So you should be able to edit php.ini to enable the four settings you mention in your latest post.

Editing config-dist.php and saving it as config.php is usually a last resort, as an alternative to allowing the Moodle installation script (install.php) create config.php. You should not have to do that at this point. But you will need to rename it back or else the installation script won't run.

EDIT: I just looked at the instructions at http://docs.moodle.org/en/Installation_FAQ#How_to_enable_and_check_PHP_error_logs
that tell you to use those ini_set statements. That must be why you were trying to manually create config.php. These instructions will need to be clarified, but I suspect that they do not apply at this point since config.php has not been created yet. So I would try just editing php.ini and try running the installation script again (with config.php renamed back to config-dist.php as I said above). If that doesn't work, I would try temporarily adding the ini_set statements to the beginning of install.php in the main Moodle folder where config-dist.php is, between the line that says

/// If config.php exists already then we are not needed.

and the one that says

if (file_exists('./config.php')) {

When you have found the problem and fixed it, you can delete the ini_set lines that you added, or comment them out by putting "// " at the beginning of each of those lines. Alternatively, you could make a copy of the install.php file in another folder (directory) before adding the lines, and afterwards copy it back.

If that doesn't work, then I guess you will have to use config-dist.php as you had planned to do after all, but I would be very surprised if it comes to that. Please let us know which of these methods works best, so we can clarify the instructions properly.

RLE