Paul Nelson

You need to see this post:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/user.php?id=175486&course=5

You'll need to set all user data fields to NO and NONE on both the backup and restore. Then it should work.

Paul

I did discover one solution for restoring courses without user content, it's to be sure to select NONE at the settings dialog box at the bottom of the restore page when restoring from a zip file.

Duh...

I thought selecting "none" on user data when creating the backup would be enough. You have to make sure they are also set to NO and NONE during the restore process too.


With ALL of these set to NONE and NO, I get a clean moodle.xml file without user info that should restore to ANY Moodle server.

I'd appreciate it if someone could test this and download this course and then restore it. It should work.

Course location:
http://training.orvsd.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=173
Restore file:
http://training.orvsd.org/moodle/file.php/173/orvsd_cybersafety.zip

Paul

This is still a problem. I manage dozens of Moodle sites and need to move courses around at will. We also publish courses through sites like MoodleCommons.org. Before 1.97 we could do this easily. Now I can't move courses from server to server or create courses that can be downloaded by other users.

I've tried backing up with no user data in teacher role and unchecking all roles in the backup window and still get this error.

This is creating a major roadblock in how we use courses. A sure-fire work around would be helpful. I don't have the coding skills to make it happen but my suggestion would be to create a backup option for "public archived" courses that contain no user info or any server info, or any other kind of info that would prevent them from being easily moved from one server to another.

Any help appreciated,

Paul

Here's a link to a PDF that at least shows users how to correct the problem (at least fixing the links, it does not address the cause of broken links.)

Note the link in the URL:
http://online.lmc.ac.uk/file.php/1/Documents/PDF/Moving_your_Old_Moodle_course_to_New_Moodle.pdf

If you were to move the course containing this resource to another server and restore it, it would restore the course but NOT change this part of the URL: http://online.lmc.ac.uk/file.php/1/ Since the resource was trying to pull a document from another server, the link fails. I see this all the time with images.

I have one Moodle server on Bluehost.com that has started to strip out font size tags from the pages. I have the same courses hosted on several servers and they all use to look the same.

Here are links to the same course hosted on two different sites:

http://nwonline.nwresd.org/course/view.php?id=2 << font size works

http://moodlecommons.org/course/view.php?id=5 << font size broken

If you look at the source of the broken page, it looks like this:

<b>Welcome to Digital Photography</b><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
Your computer is your darkroom.</span><br style=
"font-weight: bold;" />

Normal page looks like this:
<font size="5"><b>Welcome to Digital Photography</b></font>
<br /> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
Your computer is your darkroom.</span>

This problem just popped up. Since it's worked fine with the same installation on Bluehost in the past, I'm thinking there must have been a configuration change on the server. Ideas?

Paul