Tag: moodle

  • Upgrading to Moodle 4.2.1+ on Fedora requiring mariadb 10.6

    Overlook the sizeable lack of blog entries. Entries for social media purposes require require snappier titles and editing. Neither of those are worth my time at present. This is my log, if it helps anyone, great, and it really doesn’t matter, as logging helps me. I went to upgrade to Moodle 4.2 back in March,…

  • Womp Moodle 4.0 and Fedora 36

    Well, that didn’t go well. I skipped reading the ReadMe on upgrading to Fedora 36 on Moodle.org and after upgrading I realized I was on PHP 8.1 and Moodle doesn’t run on that version. I followed these instructions https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-install-php-on-fedora/ to install the REMI repository and then PHP 8.0. I did get into some particulars with…

  • Forensic SysAdmin

    I had to adjust the default mail on a Moodle system that I switched from one domain to another. I changed it last in August of 2015 and apparently forgot how it worked. So today I am going to mention that forensic sysadmin work, or finding configuration files is a real challenge. Yes, I have…

  • Moodle 3.6 Log Problems

    I am having backup problems, and was troubleshooting other issues earlier in the year, and my resolution at the semester was to export all the classes, create a clean database and reload the classes thereby getting rid of any cruft issues from a not-as-old-as-one-might-think Moodle setup. The day started easily but I kept getting a…

  • Moodle Automated Backup Problems

    I am back to troubleshooting, yet again, the problem of Moodle backups taking forever and a day. An actual day, for very small courses. A second problem occurring with the automated backups is that the old backups are not being purged so the file system is filling up with them rather than purging/pruning them. I…