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Error 500 - After Installation
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Philip Kemps
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Philip Kemps
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server_redirect |permanent and temporary | Status Code 301 and 303
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Jose A. Hernandez
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Jose A. Hernandez
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CHanges to admin pages not registering
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Michael Murphy
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Michael Murphy
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Moodle Migration from 3.3.9+ to 3.8.1
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Wendell Mayes
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Howard Miller
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Mysql innodb_file_type error
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Chamil Singhe
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Howard Miller
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Moodle on WAMP Windows server 2012 Server ran out of threads to serve requests. Consider raising ...
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Syed Khalid Mehmood
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Usman Asar
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Server PHP
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branko markec
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Visvanath Ratnaweera
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Plea to extend support for Moodle 3.6 due to Corona crisis
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Matthias Opitz
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Visvanath Ratnaweera
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New Environment Not Working
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Steve Shaw
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Steve Shaw
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Help to resolve the installation problem
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Мирољуб Бјелић
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Ken Task
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Problem installing Moodle 3.8.2
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Jorge Villarroel
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Ken Task
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Error 500 after plugin installation attempt
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Paola Costa
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Visvanath Ratnaweera
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Install Plugin in Moodle Cloud
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Sam Adams
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Matteo Scaramuccia
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Exception - Call to undefined method core\session\manager::get_login_token()
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Mohamed H
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Howard Miller
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Neither phpmail, nor smtp works (3.8.1)
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Murat Taşdemir
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Murat Taşdemir
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Installing error: Invalid property requested
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Mikołaj Kortus
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Mikołaj Kortus
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user profile gone after update moodle 3.3 to moodle 3.8
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harr tooo
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Ken Task
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Activities and Resources moved in Update [3.6 to 3.8]
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Rob Bright
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Ken Task
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Moodle 3.7.1+ Installation
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Lavanya Manne
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Elias Kinyua
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$CFG->dataroot is not configured properly
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ace ofglad
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Howard Miller
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I delete assignment, and I haven been able to install again
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alex paredes
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Ken Task
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Country Dropdown not working.
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Tandin Dorji
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Howard Miller
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OAuth 2 Setup Issue
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Safeen Shun
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Safeen Shun
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I can't add new users
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Toni Young
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Ken Task
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questions before installing
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I Tuesday
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Howard Miller
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Buttons not show icon
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Usuario SSI
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Shivanesh Lal
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"Self Enroll" hangs Moodle Site
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Shibin Dinesh
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Shibin Dinesh
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Default exception handler: Invalid user. Upgrade 2019052004.05
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Khan Solo
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Khan Solo
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api-ms-win-crt-runtime-|1-1-0.dll Not able to install Moodle 3.3.1
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sachin khanna
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sachin khanna
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Oauth2 gmail service not creating new users after moodle version upgrade from 3.6 to 3.7.4
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Nitin Mishra
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Nitin Mishra
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Moodle 3.4.1+ admin/environment/php extension/intl
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Bright School
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khalid robbani
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Admin links not working (active)
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Angoda Emmanuel
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Angoda Emmanuel
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Error code: ddlexecuteerror
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Zainil Abidin
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Howard Miller
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!IMPORTANT Choose user role during the registration process, is it possible in Moodle?
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Steel Bull
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Steel Bull
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Sourceforge out of date
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Brendon Hatcher
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Rick Jerz
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How can I delete 'First Time Here Message?'
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bruce mills
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bruce mills
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Send email to admin when exist a new register user moodle 3.8
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José Gomez Santos
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José Gomez Santos
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Moodle 3,8.1 Upgrade failure
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Stephen Pearson
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Ken Task
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Issue - "This site is not available currently."
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Janardhan Gamidi
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Howard Miller
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Moodle upgrade pending, cron execution suspended
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Son TRAN
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Juan Brunet
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Unable to update: 503 HTTP Response Error
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Niall Sheehan
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Niall Sheehan
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Courses disappeared from home page
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Seth Merle
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Seth Merle
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Couldn't communicate with mail server
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BMIT MOODLE
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Howard Miller
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Upgrading from Moodle 3.1.4+ (Build: 20170119)
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Dan Johnson
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Visvanath Ratnaweera
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"Coding error detected" and "can not create local file pool file"
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Leah Hemeon
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Ken Task
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Installing ICONV extension is required
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Nawaraj Ghimire
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Ken Task
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Unable to search after upgrading to Moodle 3.8.1+
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Joel R Smith
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Joel R Smith
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MAMP 3.8.1 "max_allowed_packet"
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curt bixel
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curt bixel
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Images and files not showing after upgrading from v3.5 to v3.8
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augusto canessa
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Gennaro Giordano
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How to merge moodle A into moodle B
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Rafael Rodriguez
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Usman Asar
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Moodle Database change
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Jahnavi Sushma
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Usman Asar
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want to hide student user on moodle page
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BMIT MOODLE
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BMIT MOODLE
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Exception when upgrading to latest moodle 3.8.1+
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Joel R Smith
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Joel R Smith
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Error of Test outgoing mail configuration in Moodle Version 3.8
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José Gomez Santos
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José Gomez Santos
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Moodle Archive / End year procedure
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Progchin M Lover
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Marcus Green
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Access final stage localhost/moodle for install failure
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Darren Raycraft
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Darren Raycraft
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Move Moodle from mySQL to MariaDB
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Stefan Schoch
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Matteo Scaramuccia
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Multiple Subsite
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Benjamin Bernard
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Jon Bolton
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Pesky New settings - Front page settings - Include a topic section won't "save"
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Perry Way
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Perry Way
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Plugin Dependency check fail
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Benjamin Bernard
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Howard Miller
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File Not Found
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Benjamin Bernard
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Visvanath Ratnaweera
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Installation of foreign keys
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Eric Richer
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Marcus Green
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mysql_collation.php and groups table problem
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Lukáš Mižoch
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Matteo Scaramuccia
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Cron and user www-data
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Charles Havegheer
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Howard Miller
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Not able to install fresh Moodle 3.8.1
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Sarath P
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Visvanath Ratnaweera
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Guest login fails after update
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Doug Henner
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Ken Task
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Deleteting Course failed on Moodle (IIS)
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Wan Hafiz
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Luis de Vasconcelos
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Upgrade 3.7 Stable to 3.8 Stable and Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer: ...
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Rafael Minozzo
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Luis de Vasconcelos
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Adding h5p as core component in moodle 3.3 for mobile support
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Krishna Mohan Prasad
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Krishna Mohan Prasad
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Undefined Property error after 2.7 to 3.1 upgrade
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Robert Stones
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Robert Stones
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After Moodle upgrade, some of the links/pages not opening
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umesh chavan
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EVEA UPE
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External database cannot connect
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Deleted user
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Deleted user
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Multiple Production Servers
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tu bui
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Howard Miller
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Problem Instalation Moodle with MySQL Galera Cluster
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wini mk
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wini mk
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Moodle 3.8.1 installation help?
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Lukas van Emmenis
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Howard Miller
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Moodle & MacOS Catalina 10.15
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Germán Valero
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Rick Jerz
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Two identical moodle server using one redis server
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Adit Raya
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Adit Raya
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Isse with Moodle Upgrade
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Mohamed Mourad Baouba
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Howard Miller
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Integration to external application
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edward horz
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Howard Miller
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Admin and Logstore plugins "missing from disk"
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Michael Otto
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Ken Task
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Issue after Upgrading from 3.7 to 3.8.1 - Tables already exist
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Gary Joyce
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Gary Joyce
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Invalid login, please try again after upgrade from 3.5.10 to 3.6.8
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Aristotelis Gorgias
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Ken Task
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Unexpected end of JSON input after migrating/upgrading
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Kalle Isotalus
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Kalle Isotalus
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Moodle 3.8 not installing, coding error
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Thorsten Westheider
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Visvanath Ratnaweera
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Error when logging in with Chrome
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Mathieu Adoutte
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Ken Task
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Missing Moodle?
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Ric Robinson
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Rick Jerz
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Stuck in maintenance mode, v3.5.3
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Morgan Harlan
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Morgan Harlan
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Problems installing on Nginx within Docker
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Jonah Kuiper
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Game Terserah
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Upgrading from 3.6.2 to 3.8.1
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Ric Sack
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Ric Sack
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New Installation with existing DB and Config shows Installation
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Evan K
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Evan K
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Error updating themes in Moodle 3.8.1 (theme_boost)
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Cristian Constantinescu
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Cristian Constantinescu
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MariaDB 10.4 Compatibility
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Ryan Smith
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Ryan Smith
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After migrating to new server, Moodle gives me "Error reading from database" message
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Andrew Harris
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Ken Task
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Exception Call to undefined function core_message_render_navbar_output() when updating to Moodle 3.8
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Víctor Mdza
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Laurent Labidi
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Uninstall plugins via CLI
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Ben Kahn
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Ben Kahn
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Moving to SSL and updating content
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Seth Merle
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Seth Merle
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Locked myself out of moodle installation
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Andrew Fovargue
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Andrew Fovargue
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Using a complete install package on an internal network
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Wozza David
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Emma Richardson
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Config table does not contain version error
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Mehdi ZOUAOUI
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David M. Gegbai
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Upgrading from server 2008 R2 to 2016
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Dan Wood
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Usman Asar
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