I currently run two moodle sites. I had thought they were both the same. Some early version of 1.8.
I upgraded one to 1.8.4 and it went smoothly.
I tried to upgrade the other one and it says "This version of moodle cannot upgrade your database to unicode" or something very similar. This puzzles me. I was sure that I did that conversion when I moved from 1.6 to 1.8.
At any rate I have a site running 1.8 (notification reports: Moodle 1.8 + (2007021503)) That will not upgrade to 1.8.4 due to a unicode error.
I desire to move to 1.9 but I am afraid I will have the same error.
Is there a way to simply upgrade my database to unicode, or repair it? Remember I am running 1.8, so I am not sure I could down grade to 1.6 and then back up. Or should I try that?
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I still have this error and I need to upgrade my site to 1.9. I am currently running 1.8 (notification reports: Moodle 1.8 + (2007021503)). If I try to upgrade to the latest 1.8.4 I get an error reporting that my database is not in utf8. However, if I download 1.7.4 it will not let me access the admin page because my databases were made with a newer version. Which makes sense since I'm already running 1.8!
I'm stuck. I cannot go down, I cannot go up. Please ... what can I check? what can I do?
Thanks
I still have this error and I need to upgrade my site to 1.9. I am currently running 1.8 (notification reports: Moodle 1.8 + (2007021503)). If I try to upgrade to the latest 1.8.4 I get an error reporting that my database is not in utf8. However, if I download 1.7.4 it will not let me access the admin page because my databases were made with a newer version. Which makes sense since I'm already running 1.8!
I'm stuck. I cannot go down, I cannot go up. Please ... what can I check? what can I do?
Thanks
Here is a screen shot of my tables from phpMyAdmin. They look like they are in utf8. All the tables read as shown in this shot. What can I do to upgrade to 1.9?
Jon
Jon
Hi fellows.
A similar thread over here tackled this issue, I think.
Let me paraphrase:
Login to your phpmyadmin, select the target database and run this query:
HOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set_database';
It will likely return something other than 'utf8' which is what it NEEDS to be.
If so, run this query:
ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET utf8;
That should do it.
A similar thread over here tackled this issue, I think.
Login to your phpmyadmin, select the target database and run this query:
HOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set_database';
It will likely return something other than 'utf8' which is what it NEEDS to be.
If so, run this query:
ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET utf8;
That should do it.
Thank you for your response. I did run the query (your s was dropped so if anyone is following this it should be SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'character_set_database';)
And it dis display utf8
I've attached a screen shot to help. I'm using MySQL 5.0.22, Apache Webserver 2.23, php 5.1.6 and moodle 1.8
I cannot update to the latest 1.8 nor move to 1.9. I am stopped with a unicode error.
And it dis display utf8
I've attached a screen shot to help. I'm using MySQL 5.0.22, Apache Webserver 2.23, php 5.1.6 and moodle 1.8
I cannot update to the latest 1.8 nor move to 1.9. I am stopped with a unicode error.
KJM,
- It is odd you would get a Unicode error upgrading to 1.7, because 1.7 does not require Unicode.
- It is highly recommended that you skip 1.7 and upgrade from 1.6 to 1.8.
- Before upgrading from 1.6, run the database migration feature in the Moodle Administration menu.
- Are you not able to access the admin block in 1.6 or 1.7? You may need to restore 1.6 from a backup.
I suppose I have not been clear enough. My Moodle is 1.8. It already is 1.8. However it is the first stable 1.8 and I wish to upgrade to the latest 1.8 then 1.9.
I should be able to. I'm already running 1.8. However when I attempt an upgrade I get a unicode error.
I believe my database is properly in unicode. All the inquires I've read about or told to do show it as utf8. So is there a flag or setting I can change manually so moodle will go to 1.8.4 or 1.9.
Thanks.
I should be able to. I'm already running 1.8. However when I attempt an upgrade I get a unicode error.
I believe my database is properly in unicode. All the inquires I've read about or told to do show it as utf8. So is there a flag or setting I can change manually so moodle will go to 1.8.4 or 1.9.
Thanks.
JK,
OK. You have run the query that Moodle used to use, and the one it currently uses (last time I checked) to determine compliance with Unicode, and got the right answer both times. Yet it says no. Very strange.
The answer to your question is yes. There is a flag you can use, and it may be the reason you are having this problem. Look in config.php for
$CFG->unicodedb
Does it set it = 0 (or false)? If so, change it to 1.
If you don't see it at all, add this to the file before the require_once line:
$CFG->unicodedb = 1;
I normally would not recommend doing this; i am only doing so in your case because you seem to have a genuinely Unicode-compliant database.
RLE
OK. You have run the query that Moodle used to use, and the one it currently uses (last time I checked) to determine compliance with Unicode, and got the right answer both times. Yet it says no. Very strange.
The answer to your question is yes. There is a flag you can use, and it may be the reason you are having this problem. Look in config.php for
$CFG->unicodedb
Does it set it = 0 (or false)? If so, change it to 1.
If you don't see it at all, add this to the file before the require_once line:
$CFG->unicodedb = 1;
I normally would not recommend doing this; i am only doing so in your case because you seem to have a genuinely Unicode-compliant database.
RLE