Installing and upgrading help

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archives admin problem Locked	Alberto Tello 8 Feb 2004	koen roggemans 8 Feb 2004	1
corrupt files Locked	Allyson Roberts 8 Feb 2004	Ralf Hilgenstock 8 Feb 2004	3
I can not edit the smily picture of my profile! Locked	Ben Joseph Zerpa 23 Jan 2004	Timothy Takemoto 9 Feb 2004	3
downloading moodle Locked	Allyson Roberts 8 Feb 2004	Allyson Roberts 9 Feb 2004	3
Safe mode Locked	Allyson Roberts 9 Feb 2004	Allyson Roberts 10 Feb 2004	6
copying file to C:\Program Files Locked	Allyson Roberts 10 Feb 2004	Allyson Roberts 10 Feb 2004	0
Module 'newmodule_template' is not readable - check permissions Locked	Emmanuel Becorporate 21 Jan 2004	Martin Dougiamas 12 Feb 2004	2
Can I get some E-Mail Help? Locked	Corey d'Entremont 21 Jan 2004	Corey d'Entremont 13 Feb 2004	13
after login, redirect goes to wrong URL Locked	kirsten montgomery 11 Feb 2004	kirsten montgomery 14 Feb 2004	2
configuring php Locked	Allyson Roberts 13 Feb 2004	Ralf Hilgenstock 14 Feb 2004	5
Still trying to modify for sql server, VERY confused Locked	Lynne Barkett 13 Jan 2004	Scott Tearle 15 Feb 2004	5
Problems with Site Files Locked	Rune Støylen 15 Feb 2004	Rune Støylen 15 Feb 2004	2
Problems with new installation Locked	Hartmut Braun 15 Feb 2004	Martin Dougiamas 16 Feb 2004	1
Warning and fatal error Locked	Rune Støylen 16 Feb 2004	koen roggemans 16 Feb 2004	1
Moodle Installation Locked	Rod Keat 16 Feb 2004	Przemyslaw Stencel 16 Feb 2004	1
Up and running but can you check site for me? Locked	Allyson Roberts 16 Feb 2004	Allyson Roberts 17 Feb 2004	6
Great! :-D Locked	Don Quixote 17 Feb 2004	Don Quixote 17 Feb 2004	0
Safe Mode Off but Permission Denied Locked	Sebastien Jaffredo 17 Feb 2004	Sebastien Jaffredo 17 Feb 2004	5
Cannot Login as Admin Locked	Rodger Kuhn 17 Feb 2004	Rodger Kuhn 18 Feb 2004	2
blank screen when trying to access /moodle/admin Locked	Dina M 11 Feb 2004	Rob Englebright 18 Feb 2004	25
Local date and time Locked	Sebastien Jaffredo 18 Feb 2004	Sebastien Jaffredo 18 Feb 2004	0
logout and home links Locked	michael harrison 18 Feb 2004	michael harrison 18 Feb 2004	0
Password protecting Moodle website Locked	Rod Keat 18 Feb 2004	Paul Norrod 19 Feb 2004	1
using access db with moodle Locked	Lisa Keegan 19 Feb 2004	Scott Tearle 19 Feb 2004	2
Database problem Locked	Richard Hurley 16 Feb 2004	TF Green 19 Feb 2004	7
Error ? Locked	Karrie V 19 Feb 2004	Ben Joseph Zerpa 19 Feb 2004	4
??? Locked	Karrie V 19 Feb 2004	Zbigniew Fiedorowicz 19 Feb 2004	1
Moodle-latest and PostgreSQL Locked	Ulrik Petersen 19 Feb 2004	Ulrik Petersen 19 Feb 2004	2
Tale of two servers Locked	lee chadwick 18 Feb 2004	lee chadwick 20 Feb 2004	3
Problems installing a new module to moodle Locked	maydelis nodarse 19 Feb 2004	Guillermo Pereyra 20 Feb 2004	3
Image Upload failure on Mitel ( e-smith 5.5) Locked	Michael Vineburg 30 Aug 2002	Perry Mathias 20 Feb 2004	3
Porting to mssql Locked	Scott Tearle 20 Feb 2004	Howard Miller 21 Feb 2004	5
Lesson module and PostgreSQL Locked	Ulrik Petersen 21 Feb 2004	Ray Kingdon 22 Feb 2004	1
Chat problem Locked	Lutfullah Kakakhel 22 Feb 2004	Lutfullah Kakakhel 22 Feb 2004	0
Warning: It appears your server does not support sessions (session.save_path = '/tmp') Locked	Susan Silverman 24 Jan 2004	Art Lader 22 Feb 2004	3
Uploaded Files can't be seen Locked	Mick Hutton 6 Feb 2004	Karrie V 22 Feb 2004	3
Installation problems with 1.2 Locked	Steven Geggie 23 Feb 2004	Steven Geggie 23 Feb 2004	0
French Language probem. Locked	Jacob Romeyn 23 Feb 2004	Nicolas Martignoni 23 Feb 2004	2
To install tex filter Locked	maydelis nodarse 24 Feb 2004	Zbigniew Fiedorowicz 24 Feb 2004	1
Portuguese Language error Locked	Regis Tractenberg 24 Feb 2004	Regis Tractenberg 24 Feb 2004	0
Problem at last step of installation Locked	Alberto Tello 23 Feb 2004	Tom Murdock 24 Feb 2004	3
Stuck on Config.php Locked	Steven Geggie 21 Feb 2004	Martin Dougiamas 24 Feb 2004	3
module databases Locked	Scott Tearle 24 Feb 2004	Martin Dougiamas 24 Feb 2004	2
1.2 Beta overwrote old database Locked	Thomas Bray 25 Feb 2004	Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 25 Feb 2004	4
New install hangs at first admin logon setup step Locked	Chris Hobley 26 Feb 2004	Chris Hobley 26 Feb 2004	0
somehow set up using 127.0.0.1 links Locked	Armor Tom 25 Feb 2004	Howard Miller 26 Feb 2004	1
Running Moodle on server in Safe Mode Locked	Rune Støylen 26 Feb 2004	David Delgado 26 Feb 2004	2
Want to Upgrade - Afraid of Losing My Content Locked	Matthew Carpenter 28 Feb 2004	Howard Miller 28 Feb 2004	1
All pages shows lots of code at the top Locked	Lazarus _ 27 Feb 2004	Lazarus _ 28 Feb 2004	6
New Installation Error on http://localhost Locked	Owl Teacher 28 Feb 2004	John Gone 29 Feb 2004	1
Is there any way moodle can auto-delete user accounts? Locked	Chris Weber 6 Feb 2004	Ger Tielemans 29 Feb 2004	6
Cannot connect to database. Locked	Jeff Blank 4 Feb 2004	Howard Miller 29 Feb 2004	2
Problems with mysqladmin Locked	Alexandra Gómez 14 Feb 2004	Ger Tielemans 1 Mar 2004	3
Installation Errors Locked	Corey d'Entremont 7 Jan 2004	Owl Teacher 2 Mar 2004	5
server warning: cannot set time limit in safe mode Locked	Andreas Vandelaar 27 Feb 2004	Andreas Vandelaar 2 Mar 2004	3
Problem with recent activity in 1.2beta Locked	Thomas Haynes 2 Mar 2004	Thomas Haynes 2 Mar 2004	4
Anyone Want To Do An Upgrade For Me? Locked	Matthew Carpenter 2 Mar 2004	Matthew Carpenter 3 Mar 2004	2
OS X Error "The site administrator needs to fix the file permissions" Locked	Ted O'Neill 4 Mar 2004	Nicolas Martignoni 4 Mar 2004	4
Can't seem to connect to MySQL database Locked	Mike Stearns 6 Nov 2003	Lassi Kontula 4 Mar 2004	7
The pages will not load properly Locked	Rune Støylen 5 Mar 2004	Rune Støylen 5 Mar 2004	3
Hosting issues Locked	Mark Harrington 5 Mar 2004	Howard Miller 6 Mar 2004	2
Instalation of new module Locked	Luisa Noa 6 Mar 2004	koen roggemans 6 Mar 2004	2
Please help me Im a student Locked	kev dev 8 Mar 2004	Howard Miller 8 Mar 2004	5
Can't untar the beta Locked	Tim Allen 8 Mar 2004	Tim Allen 8 Mar 2004	0
Logging in from a frame Locked	Arne Gylseth 3 Mar 2004	Arne Gylseth 9 Mar 2004	4
freetds required to connect to MSSQL Locked	Mostafa Elgamal 9 Mar 2004	Mostafa Elgamal 9 Mar 2004	2
WOT NO ADMIN USER Locked	Michele Balazs 10 Mar 2004	Martin Dougiamas 10 Mar 2004	1
photo in user profile not there..... Locked	Troy Kearl 12 Feb 2004	Vu Do Quynh 10 Mar 2004	2
Can't downgrade! hmmm Locked	Ólafur Ólafsson 10 Mar 2004	Ólafur Ólafsson 10 Mar 2004	7
Cannot upload files to moodledata directory Locked	Rod Keat 10 Mar 2004	Zbigniew Fiedorowicz 11 Mar 2004	4
View your site??? Locked	kev dev 12 Mar 2004	Jan Dierckx 12 Mar 2004	1
Moodle 1.2 Beta (2004022400) Locked	Wichean Eungpinitpong 12 Mar 2004	Wichean Eungpinitpong 12 Mar 2004	5
Can't create folders or upload files: Permission Denied Locked	Fernando Oliveira 11 Mar 2004	Fernando Oliveira 12 Mar 2004	3
cannot upload files exceeding a rather low limit Locked	Martin Koops 11 Mar 2004	Martin Koops 13 Mar 2004	4
Using external PN database for authentification Locked	voodoo voodoo 13 Mar 2004	voodoo voodoo 13 Mar 2004	0
I am sure it's user error... Locked	Pete Misner 13 Mar 2004	Pete Misner 14 Mar 2004	2
dirroot problem / dreamhost Locked	Tery Griffin 14 Mar 2004	Tery Griffin 15 Mar 2004	2
Failed to open stream... Locked	Stephen Henneberry 15 Mar 2004	Stephen Henneberry 16 Mar 2004	4
Wrong (large) number of replies Locked	Julian Clementson 5 Mar 2004	Debasis Satapathy 16 Mar 2004	3
Installing moodle in various linux distribution Locked	Debasis Satapathy 16 Mar 2004	Howard Miller 16 Mar 2004	15
Admin Password Page Skipped on Install Locked	Rob Hood 17 Mar 2004	Debasis Satapathy 17 Mar 2004	1
Moodle 1.2 Locked	Sebastien Jaffredo 17 Mar 2004	Sebastien Jaffredo 17 Mar 2004	0
Database permissions problems after upgrading to 1.2b Locked	Steven Day 17 Mar 2004	Steven Day 18 Mar 2004	4
CVS update of Moodle Locked	Jim Patridge 7 Jan 2003	Dan Eliot 18 Mar 2004	3
Error generating main php page Locked	Esteban Ribera 17 Mar 2004	Howard Miller 18 Mar 2004	1
Running cron on OS X Locked	Jay Melton 17 Mar 2004	Jay Melton 19 Mar 2004	16
Blank Pages with 1.2 Beta on RedHat Locked	Sterling Ledet 9 Mar 2004	Feliks Dushatsky 20 Mar 2004	12
upgrade 1.1.1 -> 1.2 ERROR "Backup tables ..." Locked	Peter Troxler 22 Mar 2004	Peter Troxler 22 Mar 2004	6
Office problems !!!!!! Locked	Antonio Alvarez Abril 22 Mar 2004	john mcgarvey 23 Mar 2004	2
recent activity error after upgrade Locked	Gary Dunn 11 Mar 2004	Gary Dunn 23 Mar 2004	7
fantastico, upgrade from 1.1.1 to 1.2 Locked	Eric Hagley 22 Mar 2004	Don Hinkelman 23 Mar 2004	5
Upgrade removes formatting Locked	Don Hinkelman 23 Mar 2004	Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 23 Mar 2004	2
Unicode Hebrew no longer renders correctly Locked	Barry Bandstra 24 Mar 2004	Barry Bandstra 24 Mar 2004	0
Importing Dreamweaver MX pages into Moodle Locked	Allen Buchanan 23 Mar 2004	Ger Tielemans 25 Mar 2004	3
Call to undefined function Locked	Patt Emmawat 24 Mar 2004	Gustav W Delius 25 Mar 2004	3
No user photos - GD Library with Mac OSX Server 10.3 Locked	Bob Gettings 24 Mar 2004	Floyd Collins 25 Mar 2004	6
Moodle email problems Locked	Lee Jordan 24 Mar 2004	Martin Dougiamas 26 Mar 2004	2
"Check for missing strings" in languages function Locked	Jay Melton 26 Mar 2004	Jay Melton 26 Mar 2004	2
Mail config puzzles Locked	James Martland 29 Mar 2004	James Martland 30 Mar 2004	2
can't view uploaded linked images Locked	nigel rogers 30 Mar 2004	Martin Dougiamas 30 Mar 2004	3

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