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Documentation: Installing Moodle, Installation FAQ, Upgrading and Upgrading FAQ
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List of discussions. Showing 100 of 20606 discussions
Status	Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies	Actions
	Problem upgrading from Moodle 2.2.2 to 2.4+ Locked	Rick Sparrow 4 Jan 2013	Rick Sparrow 8 Jan 2013	12
	Major Help needed ASAP Locked	K G 5 Dec 2012	Patrick Selby 6 Dec 2012	12
	site stuck while upgrading from 2.2 to 2.3 Locked	Fabio Cacciatori 3 Nov 2012	Fabio Cacciatori 5 Nov 2012	12
	Installation 404 issue Locked	Tim Masson 25 Oct 2012	Tim Masson 28 Oct 2012	12
	Installing Moodle on my VPS using Git Locked	Mary Cooch 27 Aug 2012	Rick Jerz 29 Aug 2012	12
	Moodle 1.5.3 upgrade path Locked	Frank B 23 Aug 2012	Howard Miller 24 Aug 2012	12
	After upgrade 1.9 - > 2.2 -> 2.3.1 - upload problem Locked	Ivan Heran 30 July 2012	Lucas Taylor 2 Oct 2012	12
	moodledata not accessible under CentOS Locked	Dave C 15 May 2012	Lorenzo Eccher 16 Jan 2017	12
	How do I access videos placed on my own server Locked	I AM Saving 27 Mar 2012	Doug Moody 30 Mar 2012	12
	Moodle adds "www" then says it can't access the site. Locked	Jason De Donno 1 Mar 2012	Ken Task 14 Mar 2012	12
	Help reset admin password Locked	Raman Joshi 14 Sept 2011	Guillermo Madero 16 Sept 2011	12
	Upgrade from 2.0.4+ to 2.1.1+ DDL sql execution error Locked	Ali Hastie 12 Sept 2011	Pere A 31 May 2013	12
	Unable to install moodle 2.1.1 Locked	Rahul Patil 8 Sept 2011	Marco Werkman 20 Nov 2011	12
	Problems in Moodle installation Locked	Giancarlo Ercoli 12 Mar 2011	Visvanath Ratnaweera 22 Mar 2011	12
	Upgrading from 1.8.14 to 2x Locked	Jeffrey Brock 14 Jan 2011	Howard Miller 15 Jan 2011	12
	Install hangs on moodle/admin/index.php Locked	Walter Liss 22 Dec 2010	Gil Vieira Rodrigues 28 Oct 2016	12
	Unknown driver native/mysql" Locked	chris thorne 15 Dec 2010	Dominick Inglese 17 Sept 2012	12
	1.9 -> 2.0 Table 'upgrade_log' already exists Locked	Alekx Zarley 14 Dec 2010	Selvin Bailey 25 Feb 2014	12
	Upgrade to 2.0 Failure Locked	Adam Lossing 8 Dec 2010	Adam Lossing 16 Dec 2010	12
	Error on install mysql Locked	DeWayne Demland 2 Dec 2010	DeWayne Demland 4 Dec 2010	12
	How can I set up my own moodle Locked	Diosdado Bayangos 5 Nov 2010	Frankie Kam 14 Nov 2010	12
	Fatal error: $CFG->dataroot is not configured properly, directory does not exist or is not ... Locked	Mike Stapleton 30 Oct 2010	Web Master 27 Sept 2013	12
	Data Directory not writeable Locked	Peter Astbury 15 July 2010	Victor Castro 16 Feb 2012	12
	SERIOUS ERROR: Could not create admin user record Locked	C Barrain 15 June 2010	Babu Prasad 7 Jan 2011	12
	After placing php.ini file in moodle directory (to try to increase memory_limit) login fails Locked	Ishara de Garis 23 Mar 2010	Klaus Brune 4 May 2010	12
	Installation confusion Locked	Randy Foster 22 Sept 2009	Luis de Vasconcelos 29 Sept 2009	12
	How to move moodle from windows to linux platform Locked	Benny Thomas 13 Apr 2009	Elvedin Trnjanin 14 Apr 2009	12
	sudo what? Locked	Annie Price 11 Mar 2009	Richard Enison 13 Mar 2009	12
	Moodle session save path installation error Locked	Kylie Walters 7 Mar 2009	Trucker L 2 June 2010	12
	Moodle Shared Host Install Report Back and Bug Fixes Locked	Rudy Preston 15 Jan 2009	Francisco De La Cruz 31 Mar 2009	12
	Newbie installing Moodle Locked	Herli Joaquim de Menezes 12 Jan 2009	Judith Behrens 20 Nov 2010	12
	phpmyadmin installation difficulty Locked	Thea Ganoe 10 Jan 2009	Harvy Stanley 15 Oct 2013	12
	Page Not Found after uploading config.php Locked	Lisa Miller 6 Nov 2008	Richard Enison 18 Nov 2008	12
	wanting to put moodle on my website. I have no CLUE Locked	Peter Hardie 11 Oct 2008	Deleted user 13 Oct 2008	12
	cron job Locked	Julie Carothers 16 July 2008	V S 1 Dec 2008	12
	Securing moodle data directory Locked	David Forrest 9 July 2008	Marc Grober 20 July 2008	12
	Can not install moodle on MS Windows Server 2003 Locked	Knith Srin 9 June 2008	Seiti Yamashiro 14 Aug 2008	12
	Fatal error: require_once() - lib/setup.php Locked	Dirk Pfuhl 28 May 2008	Richard Enison 8 June 2008	12
	Multiple Moodles Locked	Kevin Gober 11 Apr 2008	Richard Enison 15 Apr 2008	12
	profil problem Locked	Ambrus Nagy 8 Nov 2007	Ambrus Nagy 3 Dec 2007	12
	block install fail Locked	Sylvain Houmeau 21 Sept 2007	samia Taieb 26 Feb 2009	12
	Database Server Checks Locked	Stephen Parker 14 July 2007	Clarence Prudhoe 27 July 2007	12
	Cannot login as admin after fresh installation in a Linux server. Locked	Sheilon Wunder 25 Apr 2007	Richard Enison 17 June 2007	12
	fatal error during upgrade to 1.8: something to do with enrolment plug-in Locked	Norbert Berger 2 Apr 2007	Marcus Tremble 26 June 2007	12
	HELP Locked	dennis mr. 14 Feb 2007	mat young 10 May 2007	12
	Admin page blank, Moodle Page blank Locked	Russell Myers 24 Jan 2007	Russell Myers 24 Jan 2007	12
	Apache security Locked	Alistair Mitchell 5 Dec 2006	bob boby 4 Jan 2007	12
	cannot extract moodle-1.6.1.tgz Locked	john zhang 3 Sept 2006	Miguel Costa 28 Sept 2006	12
	is the 1.54 version the best one? Locked	Yanni Malliaris 27 Aug 2006	Iñaki Arenaza 28 Aug 2006	12
	Windows 2k3 IIS6 php not configured with MySQL Locked	Lewis Parfitt 17 Aug 2006	Sean Cooley 8 Sept 2006	12
	1.6 Can't find a host that supports version of mySQL Locked	Jeff Fila 14 June 2006	Aidan Hammond 26 June 2006	12
	Upgrading to 1.5.4 on my ISP - question Locked	Jim Burnard 30 May 2006	Jim Burnard 1 June 2006	12
	Moodle on Windows 2003 server w/ Sharepoint services? Locked	mike sebolt 3 May 2006	Ian Scott 16 Nov 2006	12
	Moodle, Plesk and a bizzare ownship/permissions problem Locked	Chris Burbul 23 Apr 2006	Jean Meadows 25 July 2008	12
	After running install.php blank screen appears half way through? Locked	Richard Shorten 9 Mar 2006	Mark van 't Hooft 25 Mar 2006	12
	Login problems...quite urgent Locked	Nicky Tones 12 Feb 2006	Gordon Bateson 13 Feb 2006	12
	PHP Error after upgrading to 1.5.3 Locked	Clayton Robbins 15 Dec 2005	David Roberts 19 Jan 2006	12
	PHP Error During Database Update Locked	Slobodan Jovcic 14 Dec 2005	Timothy Takemoto 3 Oct 2006	12
	admin/ page doesn't load after CVS update to 1.52stable Locked	Eric Eberhardt 20 July 2005	Eric Eberhardt 27 July 2005	12
	Dont know how to unzip on web host for initial install Locked	diane ehrlich 15 July 2005	Al Ortiz 19 July 2005	12
	Installing Moodle 1.5 on Mac OS X Server 10.4[.1] Locked	Arnor Kristjansson 17 June 2005	Timothy Mason 21 Sept 2005	12
	Install not generating config.php Locked	Iande Coutinho 14 Apr 2005	John Papaioannou 27 July 2005	12
	Installation > missing Admin user step Locked	Stéphane Buchmann 2 Mar 2005	Shane Elliott 22 May 2005	12
	Installation fails - web address does not appear to be valid Locked	Patrick de Landre-Grogan 16 Oct 2004	Joshua Ellis 1 Dec 2004	12
	Install of 1.4.1+ on win2003server, apache2 Locked	Sven Tiberg 10 Oct 2004	Sven Tiberg 14 Oct 2004	12
	Installation ends in blank page, config.php isn't created Locked	Michael W 29 Sept 2004	Jack Brewster 11 Nov 2004	12
	Internet vs. local Locked	Jean-Claude Siegrist 7 Sept 2004	Chun Yang Tan 16 Mar 2005	12
	Can't login as administrator (non-IMAP) on IMAPped 1.4 beta Locked	Timothy Takemoto 25 Aug 2004	W Page 31 Aug 2004	12
	Can't finish install Stuck at continue after table build Locked	Tracy Hansen 28 July 2004	Penny Leach 9 Nov 2004	12
	Block modules: class does not have a constructor Locked	yrahsa onamat 25 July 2004	Worth Bishop 9 Aug 2004	12
	Site Files : HTTP 404 NOT FOUND Locked	Deleted user 10 June 2004	Deleted user 27 June 2004	12
	Finally a "live person" at 1and1 - does the reason for "500" error make sense?? Locked	W Page 22 May 2004	Peter Sanders 31 May 2004	12
	Blank Pages with 1.2 Beta on RedHat Locked	Sterling Ledet 9 Mar 2004	Feliks Dushatsky 20 Mar 2004	12
	Please Help : Problem with step 19 for windows install Locked	roopali sharma 20 June 2003	John Gone 30 June 2003	12
	DATA FILES LOCATION ? Locked	John Gone 5 Feb 2003	John Gone 9 Feb 2003	12
	Moodledata directory problems Locked	Kurt Melander 2 Dec 2002	Ray Le Couteur 18 Apr 2003	12
	problems installing on RedHat 8.0 Locked	Marius Onica 24 Oct 2002	Martin Dougiamas 29 Oct 2002	12
	Missing images after URL change, please help :-(	L P 28 Mar 2024	Visvanath Ratnaweera 3 Apr 2024	11
	Installation not going beyond /user/editadvanced.php?id=2	Priya Reddy 13 Mar 2024	Ken Task 15 Mar 2024	11
	Getting some some strange error	products info 20 Feb 2024	Visvanath Ratnaweera 22 Feb 2024	11
	Exception - Table 'moodle.mdl_config' doesn't exist	Rehan Younas 9 Feb 2024	Visvanath Ratnaweera 12 Feb 2024	11
	Installing different versions of Moodle on the same local computer	Mike Smith 13 Dec 2023	Ken Task 15 Dec 2023	11
	SCORM Activities no longer mark activity completion in v 4.3	Robert Jordaan 2 Nov 2023	Helen Foster 4 Dec 2023	11
	Upgrade from 4.2.3 to 4.3 Fails (ddldepdencyerror)	Ballard Ingram 16 Oct 2023	志军董 22 Jan 2024	11
	Early (beta?) release of Moodle 4.4 for testing and KB creation?	Nathan Lind 13 Oct 2023	Julio Gomez 17 Oct 2023	11
	New Moodle Site	james walls 18 Sept 2023	Visvanath Ratnaweera 2 Oct 2023	11
	invalid moodle course id:	Sharon Mak 14 Sept 2023	Emma Richardson 22 Sept 2023	11
	Install Moodle 4.2.2+ on a windows laptop windows 11	Betsy Baughman 1 Sept 2023	Rick Jerz 3 Sept 2023	11
	Update Ubuntu 18.04 -> 22.04 (Moodle 4.1)	Stefan Schoch 16 Aug 2023	Visvanath Ratnaweera 17 Aug 2023	11
	Error - Apache is functioning normally	Farzad Shadafza 5 Aug 2023	Farzad Shadafza 7 Aug 2023	11
	Data directory (/var/www/moodledata) cannot be created by the installer.	Joe Gill 4 Aug 2023	Ken Task 8 Aug 2023	11
	New to upgrading 4.1.1 to 4.2.1 using Git	Trapline Jams 1 Aug 2023	Visvanath Ratnaweera 2 Aug 2023	11
	Which hosting do you recommend?	Russell Schwartz 6 July 2023	Howard Miller 16 July 2023	11
	Moodle migration	Valentyn Bulakh 15 June 2023	Ken Task 16 June 2023	11
	Upgrade to Moodle 4.2 help	Douglas Matheson 9 June 2023	Douglas Matheson 12 June 2023	11
	Sanity check of compatible versions of PHP and MariaDB for migration pathway	Stuart Anderson 8 June 2023	Howard Miller 10 June 2023	11
	(Split from Mod not writable) Migration from shared server to VPS Locked	Piotr F 15 Apr 2023	Mary Cooch 16 Apr 2023	11
	Error writing database Locked	Abdul rahman Alarjawi 27 Jan 2023	Leon Stringer 24 Feb 2023	11
	Error restoring backup containing random questions (3.3.4+ to 4.0.4+) Locked	Mark Brand 17 Oct 2022	Mark Brand 21 Oct 2022	11
	is the Slash arguments issue always due to missing AcceptPathInfo directive ? Locked	REMI PICARD (substitute) 13 Sept 2022	Ken Task 19 Sept 2022	11