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Documentation: Installing Moodle, Installation FAQ, Upgrading and Upgrading FAQ
Forum moderator: Howard Miller

Before starting a new discussion topic, please check the Installation FAQ and Upgrading FAQ and try a forum search.

Remember to include in your post which version of Moodle (e.g. 3.8.2) you are using!

(You can find your Moodle version via Settings > Site administration > Notifications.)

Also provide as much relevant background information as you can about the versions and configuration of your server OS, PHP and browser.

List of discussions. Showing 100 of 20609 discussions
Status	Discussion	Started by	Last post	Replies	Actions
	Windows Host and MS SQL Locked	Wahid rauf 17 Oct 2007	Richard Enison 17 Oct 2007	1
	Windows Download package PHP version error Locked	Pierre Pichet 10 Mar 2014	Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 6 Apr 2014	6
	Windows database issues Locked	Bill Lang 14 Dec 2007	Richard Enison 15 Dec 2007	3
	Windows complete pkg install problems Locked	Michael J. Ryan 6 Feb 2009	Richard Enison 12 Mar 2009	4
	Windows complete install 3.1.3 - Debug info: MySQL server has gone away Locked	Jeff Martin 29 Nov 2016	Jeff Martin 30 Nov 2016	3
	Windows backup Moodle an Linux Moodle Locked	Josip Šarčević 5 Aug 2008	Josip Šarčević 6 Aug 2008	2
	Windows Authentication for MSSQL Locked	BK Fa 13 Jan 2015	BK Fa 14 Jan 2015	2
	Windows 8 Moodle Installation Locked	Jason Smith 13 July 2013	Rashid Brown Shomari 14 July 2013	1
	Windows 7 XAMPP & Moodle Locked	Frank Sapper 15 Feb 2010	Colin Fraser 15 Feb 2010	3
	Windows 7 and Moodle 2.1+ Don't seem to work Locked	Charles Gunter 25 July 2011	Craig Mackey 11 Dec 2011	15
	Windows 2k3 IIS6 php not configured with MySQL Locked	Lewis Parfitt 17 Aug 2006	Sean Cooley 8 Sept 2006	12
	Windows 2K install problems Locked	Peter Fullarton 24 Mar 2003	Peter Fullarton 24 Mar 2003	3
	Windows 2022 on Moodle servers Locked	Heleni Lindsell 9 Feb 2022	Usman Asar 11 Feb 2022	6
	Windows 2003, php 4.3.11 and Mysql 4.1 install problem Locked	Les Anderson 18 May 2005	Dan Marsden 19 May 2005	4
	windows 2003 with Xampplite Locked	Adam Blevins 18 May 2006	Graeme Forrester 24 June 2006	2
	Windows 2003 with easyphp 1.8 Locked	Adam Blevins 6 May 2006	Adam Blevins 18 May 2006	8
	windows 2003 server sql2000 and iis Locked	Anil Karwankar 21 Sept 2006	Ken Wilson 21 Sept 2006	1
	WIndows 2003 Server Error Dataroot location is not secure Locked	Brian LaMaster 22 July 2011	Guido Gautsch 4 Aug 2011	8
	Windows 2003 MySql Php phpmyadmin language problem Locked	uk nites 28 Oct 2009	uk nites 31 Oct 2009	1
	Windows 2003 installation Locked	Ted Thrasher 3 Feb 2006	Ghassan Geara 17 Feb 2006	5
	Windows 2003 IIS 6 PHP 5 MySql 4 Moodle 1.5.3+ Locked	Ted Thrasher 5 Feb 2006	Ted Thrasher 5 Feb 2006	0
	Windows 2003 + IIS 6 + ASP NET + MOODLE Locked	Leandro Halfon 26 Mar 2013	Steve Kleine 26 Mar 2013	2
	Windows 2003 - IIS installation doesn't setup database Locked	Darren C 20 Sept 2004	Jack Brewster 11 Nov 2004	7
	Windows 2000 IIS Locked	Aaron Mandel 30 Apr 2003	William Wright 7 July 2003	2
	Windows 11, Stand-Alone, "localhost refused to connect" Locked	Peter Raeth 20 Apr 2023	Peter Raeth 20 Apr 2023	0
	Windows 11 Pro 22H2 - Struggles with the Windows Installer Locked	Przemek Kaszubski 16 Apr 2023	Przemek Kaszubski 16 Apr 2023	0
	Windows 10 Top Tip Locked	Gareth J Barnard 19 July 2016	Gareth J Barnard 20 July 2016	2
	Windows 10 problems... Locked	Houmam Sarsar 15 Aug 2015	Rick Jerz 16 Aug 2015	10
	Windows - MSVCP140.dll Missing Locked	Barry Schell 9 Jan 2017	Barry Schell 10 Jan 2017	3
	WINDOW 2003 and SQL DATABASE Locked	Bhupinder Singh 16 Sept 2005	David Wilkinson 7 Oct 2005	3
	Window 2000 server. Locked	shede yub 22 Aug 2005	shede yub 22 Aug 2005	0
	WINCVS Locked	Jeroen Kleijn 9 Sept 2007	Jeroen Kleijn 10 Sept 2007	2
	Wincache Issue? Locked	Andrew Senior 28 June 2013	Andrew Senior 1 July 2013	9
	wincache for IIS 10 - how to configure Locked	Heather P 22 June 2018	Heather P 7 July 2018	4
	Win32:Malware-gen Locked	Glenys Hanson 31 Jan 2010	Glenys Hanson 2 Feb 2010	2
	Win2K, PHP, Apache, Moodle Install failure Locked	Roy Carrol 10 Aug 2004	Howard Miller 11 Aug 2004	2
	Win Vista + IIS7 + MSSQL 2005 + PHP + Moodle not working Locked	Robert Jordaan 18 Mar 2009	Richard Enison 30 Mar 2009	8
	Win Server 2016, IIS, PHP7 & Mairadb Locked	Ravi Chandran 17 Oct 2019	Ravi Chandran 20 Oct 2019	4
	win installations much smoother in 1.4.2 Locked	Adam Brooks 10 Nov 2004	Adam Brooks 10 Nov 2004	0
	Win 2003 w/iis install problem Locked	Jamie Steenberge 3 Apr 2007	Jamie Steenberge 3 Apr 2007	4
	WIMP Upgrade from 1.9.10 to 2.0.1 Locked	Louis Gephardt 15 Feb 2011	Louis Gephardt 15 Feb 2011	0
	WIMP Install Failing - Plz Help Locked	Reynard Cobham 13 Aug 2007	Richard Enison 18 Aug 2007	10
	Will upgrading from 2.9 to 3.0 be huge? Locked	Melissa Benson 20 Sept 2015	Visvanath Ratnaweera 21 Sept 2015	4
	will upgrading delete my files' changes? Locked	Eran Levin 16 Nov 2015	Just H 17 Nov 2015	1
	will upgradation lead to data loss? Locked	murugan muthu 7 May 2014	John Gifford 19 May 2014	6
	Will updating through CVS keep my mods intact? Locked	Kevin Audleman 6 Dec 2006	Kevin Audleman 6 Dec 2006	0
	Will soon attempt 2.3 to 2.6 upgrade Locked	Owen Grubbs 14 May 2014	Guillermo Madero 22 May 2014	5
	will pay for help with update Locked	Dean Thomas 6 Dec 2011	Itamar Tzadok 6 Dec 2011	2
	Will not show the site... Locked	Ryan Marshall 8 Sept 2016	Ryan Marshall 9 Sept 2016	2
	Will MySQL5 break 1.5.3? Locked	Simon Bryan 15 Mar 2006	Simon Bryan 15 Mar 2006	2
	Will Moodle 4.1.x support PHP 8.2	Jesus Martin 15 Apr 2024	Leon Stringer 15 Apr 2024	1
	will moodle 2.7.2 work on ubuntu 11.04 Locked	moodle learner 15 Mar 2016	Visvanath Ratnaweera 17 Mar 2016	6
	Will Moodle 1.7 / 1.8 work with PHP Version 4.3.9 Locked	David Cooper 30 May 2007	Richard Enison 30 May 2007	1
	Will installing php 5.3.2+ break a production 1.9.15? Locked	greg mushial 9 Jan 2012	Rosario Carcò 4 Apr 2012	4
	will install under local host but not under ip address Locked	Jason English 4 Nov 2007	Jason English 4 Nov 2007	2
	Will httpsreplace tool from a 3.4 work with 2.7.highest? Locked	Ken Task 27 June 2019	Ken Task 28 June 2019	4
	will Git automatically upgrade across generations? Locked	Gord Barentsen 28 Apr 2018	Ken Task 29 Apr 2018	3
	Wikipedia Block installation problem Locked	William Fraser 27 July 2006	Jan Dierckx 27 July 2006	1
	wiki upgrade 1.9.18 to 2.2.3 Locked	Simon Allison 6 July 2012	Simon Allison 6 July 2012	2
	Wiki problem Locked	Birdie Newborn 7 Aug 2005	Birdie Newborn 7 Aug 2005	0
	wiki problem Locked	Randy Vermaas 3 July 2003	Randy Vermaas 8 July 2003	4
	Wiki Module Locked	Mike Keyes 12 Feb 2009	Richard Enison 15 Feb 2009	2
	wiki data not showing up Locked	Deleted user 18 Aug 2011	Deleted user 18 Aug 2011	0
	Wiki and Blogs are missing Locked	Judith Behrens 14 Nov 2010	Judith Behrens 15 Nov 2010	5
	wiki - install problem Locked	H Peter 16 July 2006	Kevin Audleman 16 July 2006	1
	wierd install error Locked	Boyd Mitchell 16 Jan 2004	Howard Miller 16 Jan 2004	1
	Width 100% Locked	Kurbon Rakhmanov 23 Sept 2020	Emma Richardson 24 Sept 2020	1
	Widows server 2008 Locked	Norman Caissie 18 May 2011	Norman Caissie 25 May 2011	11
	Widows 2003 IIS6 - will not create database Locked	Ian Scott 17 Feb 2006	Ian Scott 18 Feb 2006	1
	WhyThe moodle installation not work with PHP5? Locked	mana rutanatumjaroen 10 June 2005	Artit Ungkanont 21 June 2005	6
	WHY??....Config table does not contain the version. You cannot continue. Can't find data record ... Locked	Gary Lynch 22 July 2022	Howard Miller 22 July 2022	8
	Why: 500 Internal Server Error ?? Locked	HECTOR MANUEL ACEVES ORTEGA 7 Dec 2008	Richard Enison 7 Dec 2008	2
	why web page blank ? Locked	guozhong zhang 30 Nov 2005	guozhong zhang 30 Nov 2005	0
	Why there is a "4" persistently appearing at the top-left corner of my moodle site? Locked	chance jiang 3 May 2003	chance jiang 5 May 2003	2
	Why the upgrade key does not work? Locked	mimi nom 4 Apr 2019	Leon Stringer 3 May 2019	1
	why the browser displays IIS7? Locked	murugan m 5 Dec 2014	Gordon Toudt 6 Dec 2014	4
	Why only 8MB? Locked	xgf xgf 26 Oct 2006	Martin Dougiamas 26 Oct 2006	1
	Why not Php 7.0? Locked	jared beck 28 Dec 2016	Matteo Scaramuccia 3 Jan 2017	4
	Why is this happening on install in localhost Locked	Brian Lockwood 16 Sept 2019	Brian Lockwood 16 Sept 2019	1
	Why is it nearly impossible to get Moodle to send email via Office 365 SMTP via a noreply account	Ben Girard 6 Sept 2023	Alejandro Lengua 21 Sept 2023	17
	Why is installing Moodle such a pain?	James Steerpike 22 July 2023	Visvanath Ratnaweera 27 July 2023	48
	Why install.php runs automatically? Locked	murugan muthu 11 June 2014	Howard Miller 11 June 2014	1
	Why I've bound to download all things 4m internet? Locked	NoMaN NaSeeM 4 Jan 2010	NoMaN NaSeeM 11 Jan 2010	7
	Why I can't visite the download page Locked	yp Dai 8 Dec 2008	yp Dai 8 Dec 2008	2
	Why don´t Moodle work on some web hosts? Locked	Fredrik Nilsson 17 Jan 2010	James McLean 21 Jan 2010	5
	Why does moodle have such a bad system ? moodle 2.5 and 2.5+ Locked	RB AS 26 May 2013	Helen Foster 3 June 2013	12
	Why does 'wwwroot' in config.php get reset randomly on amazon EC2? Locked	Abdul Haseeb 7 Feb 2012	Chris Ott 13 Feb 2012	2
	Why do I see Skip to...and no CSS? Locked	Ali Bal 2 Nov 2012	Luis de Vasconcelos 20 Nov 2012	15
	Why do I have to keep restarting "Start Moodle.exe"? Locked	Glenys Hanson 31 Jan 2009	Colin Fraser 1 Dec 2012	13
	Why do I have a 'time wharp' in my first posting? Locked	Martin Geschka 8 Jan 2006	Martin Geschka 9 Jan 2006	2
	Why clone thrice ? Locked	Devang Gaur 31 Jan 2016	Devang Gaur 1 Feb 2016	2
	Why can't I see the upload picture browse button when editing profile? Locked	Grant Christie 28 May 2004	Zbigniew Fiedorowicz 28 May 2004	1
	Why can't I add php.ini to root folder? Locked	Shawn LeBleu 31 Oct 2012	Guillermo Madero 27 Nov 2012	4
	Why are some download links missing in "Modules and plugins"? Locked	Timothy Ridy 7 Feb 2007	Timothy Ridy 7 Feb 2007	2
	Why and how could a single teacher use Moodle to support online her/his students? Locked	Piero Fornoni 27 Feb 2012	Helen Foster 13 Mar 2012	27
	why am i supposed to change my password twice? Locked	Suresh Manickam 16 Nov 2005	Suresh Manickam 16 Nov 2005	0
	why am I seeing moodle like this ? Locked	Christos Christofidis 22 July 2014	Mary Cooch 22 July 2014	4
	Why after Iog-in moodle forwards me to the moodle directory? Locked	Ben Jones 11 Mar 2006	Ben Jones 14 Mar 2006	2
	Whom could help me in the following Error?? Locked	Ali Arekat 7 Aug 2011	Visvanath Ratnaweera 7 Aug 2011	1
	who will do it 4 me? Locked	Ruth Ruane 21 May 2011	Guillermo Madero 25 May 2011	2