Posts made by Howard Miller

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With the caveat that I know almost nothing about Windows... you did restart after changing any php.ini settings?

One other thing I noticed - Moodle 4.2.2 is NOT compatible with PHP 8.2. You need at least Moodle 4.2.3 for that. 
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All your questions would be answered by reading the 4.3 release notes - https://moodledev.io/general/releases/4.3

But, yes, PHP 8.0 through 8.2 are all supported. The problems you had with PHP extensions are highly unlikely to be anything to do with the version. 
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Yes - the code in the settings.php file requires that the user has the 'siteconfig' capability. Which effectively means the admin. You can give that capability to Managers but you probably shouldn't.
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