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Bilkisu, that sometimes happens in windows installer package as sometimes cache gets corrupted. nothing to worry about.

go into your "moodledata" folder, and you'll find two folders "cache" and "localcache"
delete them both, and refresh your page. you'll be good to go. Dont worry about deleting the folders as they will re-appear once you reload the page.

Joseph,

What have you done so far to setup PHP?

if you are new to setup php on IIS, then I would recommend easier part, using web platform installer, it will download and install all necessary files for you, add handler mappings and setup environment variables.

if you want to go manual way, then again not an issue, less than 5 mins work.

Make sure when installing IIS, you have selected CGI to be installed as well.

You'll be downloading Non-thread safe version from php.net, and extracting contents into with program files or even root directory. (its upto you weather to download 32-bit or 64-bit)

Secondly, go into Environment variables, and add the lines C:\php (after semi colon) or C:\program files\php --> depending upon where you have extracted the folder

go into IIS manager, you'll find handler mappings  there, you'll be adding information about PHP, so click Module mappings (from right hand menu), and type following

Request path : *.php

Module: FastCGI

executable: C:\php\php-cgi.exe (depending upon where your php folder is)

name: give any that you can come later to, like Php-5 etc

in default files, add index.php as well, and you'll be good to go.

again a reminder, WPI will make your job much easier.

Nived, blueHost have recently started offering Cloud Sites, their resource allocation is twice as much as standard shared host and pricing is almost same, their performance pack is $8.95 which is almost equal or less than many shared hosting accounts in terms of price but resource allocation is 4 times as much, that may will be able to support 100 users depending on what they are doing, if you want all 100 taking quiz at the same time, then better go for their Business pro account @ 15.95, else performance pack will be sufficient. You can check their Cloud offerings HERE.

kikou, if you want to test out moodle, then downloading windows installer pack will be sufficient without you installing XAMPP separately and then installing moodle on top, as Windows installer package comes with everything pre-configured already.

else if you want to install separately, then you can download XAMPP (Latest is coming with mariaDB) HERE.

Larry, this theme has a new version, please bring  all your queries here

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=322159#p1295703

as this is new post for the latest version of Elegance, hopefully your issue will be resolved in new one.