Hi, thanks Ken. I hope my coding is a bit better than my slashing.
Cheers for your help. I did heaps of reading and experimenting. Got a new Moodle 2.8 running on Ubuntu 14.10 (only because that's what I had when things fell apart). Followed your instructions and copied over moodle, moodledata, /var/lib/mysql/moodle. Getting:
Config table does not contain version, can not continue, sorry.
It is usually not possible to recover from errors triggered during installation, you may need to create a new database or use a different database prefix if you want to retry the installation.
The error is:
The most likely cause of this error is that the 'version' key is missing from your configuration dictionary.
Steps to fix:
- Open <moodleinstalldir>/version.php
- Find the value in $version
- Open 'mdl_config' in database manager
- Insert key after last entry with name = 'version' and value = <value found in version.php>
I'm just about there...I have my version but I don't know how to open mdl_config and insert a key and not sure how to use database manager. It must be easy, I just never did it. Anybody have ideas?