Posts made by Visvanath Ratnaweera

Moodle in English -> General help -> Base64 encoded images in the database -> Re: Base64 encoded images in the database

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Hi Mark

Thanks for the feedback. I'm not (yet) testing directly. The colleague who tried it on a Moodle clone said it mostly works but taking ages, some took 2 days it seems.

What I expect is a reduction in the size of the database, since the same base64 data appears in many places. When its trough the filedir/ should increase by a little, since the same file is saved only once in the filedir/.

Yes, difficult not to get angry.
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Moodle in English -> General help -> Base64 encoded images in the database

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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I've found hundreds of Base64 encoded images in the database! Typical signature is pages stored with images like this:

<img src=\"data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUh..

Moodle version 4.1 LTS. I believe these records are very old.

Found this plug-in: https://github.com/catalyst/moodle-tool_encoded. Isn't it too good to be true? Is it really capable of decoding the image, save it in the repository and replace the src with a link to the file?

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Moodle in English -> Installing and upgrading help -> Issue with Dev Site Redirecting to Live Site After Upgrade to Moodle 4.5 -> Re: Issue with Dev Site Redirecting to Live Site After Upgrade to Moodle 4.5

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Moodle_migration is well tested. So either you made a mistake or the web server configuration doesn't match or something in the network including (reverse) proxies is interfering.
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