by Beau Sanders.
In an effort to wrapup this thread, here is what I have done in the last day or so:
- I decided that converting courses was NOT the best way to migrate to 2.4 from 1.9 for us
- I copied the 1.9 mysqldatabase and moodledata files to our stand-alone server
- I installed a clean version of 2.2
- I ran the install from the web browser to covert all of our 1.9 data to 2.2, because we could not convert straight to 2.4 per the instructions
- After running all night, 2.2 was working this morning
- Next I converted 2.2 to 2.4 in much the same way by copying the database and moodledata and setting up a clean install of 2.4 on our local server
- This conversion went much faster with no errors
- The big problem today was moving the running 2.4 install to our web hosting server from our local server; the ISP server kept timing out
- I learned after several tries that I needed to export the mysql database by way of the command line on our local server, then transferred the 242+ MB file to the ISP server, then ran their Control Panel database import program on their server and it actually worked
- Now we have all of our courses and history converted and running on the hosted server in moodle 2.4
- Now our problem is the images that were embedded in 1.9 are not appearing; I am not surprised...I will attack that tomorrow and start a new thread as needed.
I hope two days and counting of work is worth it. What I see of 2.4 is good. In a couple of days I should have it looking good and running the way we want it to.
Thanks to Ken for his help on this thread. I hope these comments help other moodlers get converted to the new version.
-Beau