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Documentation: Installing Moodle, Installation FAQ, Upgrading and Upgrading FAQ
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List of discussions. Showing 100 of 20599 discussions
Status	Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies	Actions
	How to Enable slash arguments in Ubuntu 14.04 ? Locked	QLD BNE 25 July 2015	Emma Richardson 29 July 2015	13
	Git upgrade to 2.9: 'origin/MOODLE_29_STABLE' does not exist Locked	Josiah Carberry 19 May 2015	Ken Task 21 May 2015	13
	install.php problem (ver. 2.9) Locked	Randall Paul Allen 13 May 2015	Randall Paul Allen 14 May 2015	13
	Slasharguments on new 2.8.5 on Centos 7 Locked	Marcelo Flores 22 Apr 2015	Rob Johnson 11 June 2015	13
	How much of Moodle 1.9 files are reusable in new setup Locked	Mika Natsaki 19 Apr 2015	Luis de Vasconcelos 22 Apr 2015	13
	Error writing to db after upgrade on Assignment Upgrade Tool Locked	Nikki Macfarlane 29 Mar 2015	Nikki Macfarlane 31 Mar 2015	13
	How do find where the email process breaks down? Locked	Jurgen Oschadleus 23 Feb 2015	Howard Miller 24 Feb 2015	13
	Migrate Moodle 2.0.3 to 2.8.3+ Locked	Ricardo Santos 11 Feb 2015	kishore kommireddy 6 July 2015	13
	Windows->Linux, version upgrade and possible db migration Locked	Adam Scarboro 16 Jan 2015	Adam Scarboro 30 Jan 2015	13
	Theme not displaying (new installation) Locked	Noah A 27 Nov 2014	Visvanath Ratnaweera 4 Dec 2014	13
	Wordpress and subdomains Locked	asha sterling 10 Oct 2014	Phil Carlson 14 Oct 2014	13
	Plugins directory not writable but permissions are correct Locked	Richard Thomas 31 Aug 2014	Ken Task 6 Sept 2014	13
	Upgrading or New Install Locked	Kelly Bramble 8 Aug 2014	Ken Task 14 Aug 2014	13
	trying to save an old installation so I can upgrade ver 1.7.1 to 1.8 then onwards to 2+ Locked	jb skaggs 26 July 2014	Ken Task 28 July 2014	13
	I only want 2.6.3, not 2.6.3+ Locked	Rebecca Trynes 26 June 2014	Rebecca Trynes 29 Aug 2014	13
	Upgrading to Moodle 2.7 from 2.4.3 Locked	Gary Lebowitz 17 May 2014	Ken Task 20 May 2014	13
	Some Links not working after connecting with backup database on the same server Locked	Fatema Siddiqua 28 Apr 2014	Guillermo Madero 16 May 2014	13
	upgrading from 1.9.10 stuck Locked	john owen-jones 14 Feb 2014	john owen-jones 17 Feb 2014	13
	Error writing to database Locked	Manoj Rajiwadekar 5 Jan 2014	Manoj Rajiwadekar 18 July 2014	13
	Creating multiple instances on Windows server Locked	Michael Percival 23 Aug 2013	Michael Percival 17 Sept 2013	13
	Restore stops at "Backup/restore.php" Locked	Steve Ambro v3.8 6 July 2013	Ken Task 9 July 2013	13
	Help Installing Moodle 2.4 Locked	Edson Xupim 19 June 2013	Ken Task 2 July 2013	13
	ERROR!!! The code you are using is OLDER than the version that made these databases! Locked	Nawid MZ 3 Apr 2013	Malik Koné 31 July 2013	13
	Moodle installation on Godaddy linux based dedicated server Locked	richa rathore 2 Apr 2013	Pankaj Singh 10 June 2013	13
	Upgrade always available, even after upgrade Locked	Joshua Johnston 21 Mar 2013	Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 27 Mar 2013	13
	krystle theme & moodle 2.2 Locked	Neelima Rathore 10 Feb 2013	Neelima Rathore 16 Feb 2013	13
	Is it possible to Upgrade Version 1.9.10 to 2.4.1 Locked	Stephen Mr 5 Feb 2013	John Gifford 6 Mar 2013	13
	From 1.9.9 to 2.2 on my own Locked	Ulrike Albers 29 Sept 2012	Ulrike Albers 11 Oct 2012	13
	Attempting update to 2.3.1 hangs on 'mod_quiz' Locked	David Leaper 12 Aug 2012	David Leaper 15 Aug 2012	13
	Upgrade from 1.9.8 to 2.2.4+ - failed! Locked	Marc Coyles 2 Aug 2012	Howard Miller 4 Aug 2012	13
	Want to upgrade to 2.3 from 2.2.1 but database not InnoDB Locked	Fred Frazelle 10 July 2012	Fred Frazelle 12 July 2012	13
	Upgrading 1.9.16 to 2.2.x --- Error reading from Database Locked	Aaron Hockett 19 Mar 2012	Paul Nijbakker 19 June 2012	13
	Error writing to database during installation v2.2.1 Locked	Andrew Steele 15 Feb 2012	pete kater 12 Jan 2015	13
	Ubuntu 11.10 intallation Locked	Miguel Freitas 1 Feb 2012	Gerald Brown 6 Feb 2012	13
	Moodledata is not accessible after copy. Locked	Pietro Tamburrano 21 Jan 2012	Stefan Nychka 1 Feb 2012	13
	No Images and loss of System Admin rights Locked	Sue Swanson 16 Aug 2011	Sue Swanson 19 Aug 2011	13
	Moodle 1.9.13 install hangs with blank page Locked	Danny Biggs 2 Aug 2011	Greg Padberg 15 Aug 2011	13
	Could not find or create a directory Locked	Allen Way 15 July 2011	Mary Evans 25 July 2011	13
	HOW TO BUILD A WEBSITE in/with MOODLE Locked	rockerz g 14 Apr 2011	Purity Githembe 28 Apr 2011	13
	I cannot upgrade Moodle from 1.9.9 to 2.0 owing to the fact the server does not support ... Locked	Mitch K 29 Dec 2010	Colin Fraser 31 Jan 2011	13
	Data directory ({$a->dataroot}) cannot be created by the installer. Locked	Mat Simon 21 Dec 2010	Andreas Panagiotopoulos 17 July 2013	13
	MOODLE 2.0 - Upload file problem Locked	Hải Nguyễn Đình 4 Dec 2010	Mary Cooch 24 June 2011	13
	Installing Moodle in a Wordpress site Locked	Tim Chambers 21 Sept 2010	E. L. Cooper 28 Sept 2010	13
	Serious Installation problem with enrol/authorize plugin Locked	Ollie Russel-Fisher 3 June 2010	Toufan Esmaili 10 Oct 2010	13
	Installing Moodle on Network Solutions Locked	James O'Connor 29 Jan 2010	C Barrain 13 June 2010	13
	Help Please newbie and frustrated. Locked	Mark Smith 12 Jan 2010	Jon Witts 16 Jan 2010	13
	images broken after move to new server Locked	basil kolani 29 Dec 2009	Steven Nelson 6 Oct 2010	13
	Localhost install stalled with blank admin page Locked	Stephen Overall 20 July 2009	Tom Ridge 2 Aug 2010	13
	Installing 2 moodles on one server? Locked	David Nash 14 Apr 2009	David Nash 30 Apr 2009	13
	Webserver changed: new paths problem Locked	Ant DG 13 Mar 2009	Ant DG 11 May 2009	13
	Upgrading Moodle, PHP, Apache and MySQL Locked	Chris Walsh 20 Feb 2009	Petr Skoda 23 Feb 2009	13
	Why do I have to keep restarting "Start Moodle.exe"? Locked	Glenys Hanson 31 Jan 2009	Colin Fraser 1 Dec 2012	13
	Very slow admin login Locked	Ruslan Voronkov 27 Jan 2009	Helen Foster 12 Dec 2016	13
	Flexpage Locked	Keith Ross 31 Aug 2008	A. T. Wyatt 15 Sept 2008	13
	File and directory permissions Locked	Peter Diercks 26 July 2008	Ken Scott 31 July 2008	13
	Upgrading From 1.8 to 1.9: 1170: BLOB/TEXT column 'action' used in key specification without a ... Locked	James Marshall 27 May 2008	hector whatever 25 June 2009	13
	64 Bit Moodle Locked	M Adeel 24 Apr 2008	Richard Enison 26 Apr 2008	13
	Install Problems with SQL 2005 Cluster Locked	Daniel Lowe 4 Apr 2008	Luis de Vasconcelos 10 Apr 2008	13
	Error: mod/assignment/type/online plugin needs upgrading Locked	Ben Mills 17 Mar 2008	Rosario Carcò 23 July 2010	13
	Serious Database help needed Locked	Russell Myers 14 Mar 2008	shivam gupta 26 July 2008	13
	Moodle will not connect to DB Locked	Chad Gerber 21 Nov 2007	Andrea Davis 16 Mar 2008	13
	Can't login after switching to https-login Locked	Eckart Stoermer 23 Sept 2007	Pál Csányi 18 May 2011	13
	How to install or enable UNICODE Locked	Euqueria Zamora 17 June 2007	Scott Brubaker 9 July 2007	13
	upgrade from 1.5 to 1.8 - HotPot upgrade failed Locked	Inna Abcid 30 May 2007	Gordon Bateson 8 Oct 2007	13
	Linux Newbie Stares At Command Prompt Locked	Eric Malone 24 Jan 2007	Mikel Stous 9 Feb 2007	13
	Loading onto one PC Locked	Ray TOLLEY 28 Nov 2006	bill hamilton 30 Nov 2006	13
	help with installation on my PC Locked	ritva tamminen 10 Sept 2006	Tan M 15 Sept 2006	13
	Problem installing using XAMPP on XP Locked	T.C. Chappelear 1 Sept 2006	Ray Lawrence 2 Sept 2006	13
	Using IIS instead of Apache Locked	Clint Rivest 18 July 2006	Thomas Haynes 12 Sept 2006	13
	Error on line 83 Locked	faraz omar 5 Apr 2006	Iñaki Arenaza 9 Apr 2006	13
	i'm stuck with Moodle installation... Locked	mike anthony 28 Feb 2006	tanis alia 30 May 2006	13
	Xammp installation freezes in Authentication Loop Locked	Trevor Mcpherson 23 Jan 2006	Daryl Hawes 3 Mar 2006	13
	64bit hardware and apache segmentation faults Locked	Francis Brouns 15 Nov 2005	Visvanath Ratnaweera 1 Jan 2006	13
	The 'Data Directory' you specified could not be found or created. Locked	Jonathan Konrad 4 Oct 2005	Mohamed Rasheed 29 Apr 2009	13
	Installing GD Locked	David Hancox 3 Oct 2005	Ken Wilson 19 Sept 2006	13
	Apache web server. Locked	Md. Roslan Zainol 28 May 2005	Howard Miller 2 June 2005	13
	Cannot access MySql DB, although its been created properly. I CAN use mysql commands nicely! Locked	Dallas Ray Smetter 8 Apr 2005	Griff Jon 18 June 2005	13
	urgent Locked	raju malav 27 Feb 2005	raju malav 28 Feb 2005	13
	Can't log in as admin (or anything else) Locked	Paul Johnson 11 Jan 2005	Paul Johnson 26 Jan 2005	13
	Failure running /install.php Locked	David Schamus 17 Sept 2004	David Schamus 29 July 2007	13
	Config.php file help. PLEASE AND THANK YOU Locked	Nikesh Hajari Mr. 9 July 2004	Floyd Collins 17 July 2004	13
	Internal Server Error Locked	Rene Ghavami 8 June 2004	oscar fernando 17 Aug 2005	13
	Can I get some E-Mail Help? Locked	Corey d'Entremont 21 Jan 2004	Corey d'Entremont 13 Feb 2004	13
	No HTML Editor Locked	Jeffery Watkins 15 Dec 2003	Andy Diament 5 Feb 2004	13
	Incomplete install Locked	Anders Berggren 1 Sept 2003	W Page 15 Jan 2004	13
	Tasks not running & no e-mail send after upgrade to 4.3	Jason Hollowell 15 Mar 2024	Jason Hollowell 15 Mar 2024	12
	Cron error after upgrade to 4.3	James Suttie 23 Nov 2023	Ken Task 24 Nov 2023	12
	Trying to revert from 4.3 back to 4.2.2 Major problem	Stephanie Worden 4 Nov 2023	Ken Task 6 Nov 2023	12
	An URGENT question regarding Moodle Cloning as roll-over policy	Mer Benette 2 Sept 2023	Mer Benette 3 Sept 2023	12
	After upgrade to 4.2 old users cannot log in	Abraham George 4 Aug 2023	Ken Task 5 Aug 2023	12
	Upgrading 4.1 to 4.2 gives unoconv error?	Richard van Iwaarden 16 June 2023	Richard van Iwaarden 23 June 2023	12
	First time moodle user \| Attempting to install Moodle 4.2(402)	Travis Jackson 6 June 2023	Visvanath Ratnaweera 9 June 2023	12
	urgent help needed \| stuck on current release information.	Breakthrough Opsc 5 June 2023	Breakthrough Opsc 6 June 2023	12
	Moodle is not showing CSS and theme	Sally Abuhazeem 17 May 2023	Leon Stringer 21 May 2023	12
	Maintenance and Plugin Question	Sylvain Écores 8 May 2023	Sylvain Écores 9 May 2023	12
	Test Server Locked	Lynn MacDonald 16 Dec 2022	Visvanath Ratnaweera 22 Dec 2022	12
	Trouble going from 4.0.5 to 4.1 Locked	Frank Burger 16 Dec 2022	Visvanath Ratnaweera 21 Dec 2022	12
	Problems after upgrading from Moodle 3.11 to 4.1	P H 15 Dec 2022	P H 2 May 2023	12
	Database upgrade from 4.0.5+ to 4.1 does not finish Locked	Leonard Michlmayr 29 Nov 2022	Gregor McNish 14 Dec 2022	12
	Not able to add a resource to Course Locked	Prof Prabhat Ranjan 22 Oct 2022	Abdul Rehman Chaudhary 22 Nov 2022	12