by Visvanath Ratnaweera.
Beau
Thanks for reporting! There are too many Moodle admins going through the same thing.
> I decided that converting courses was NOT the best way to migrate to 2.4 from 1.9 for us
ACK.
> 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
Shouldn't that be the _upgrade_ procedure, not the installation?
> After running all night, 2.2 was working this morning
This on your own dedicated server?
> 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
That step was in my opinion too hasty. You need 2.2 put to a thorough test. I don't mean the conversion, I mean working with the new version. Keep the old version ready, if the new one is not satisfactory.
> 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
242 MB is harmless. See the current discussion https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218782 for a 5 GB database.
> 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...
Neither do I.
;-(
Thanks for reporting! There are too many Moodle admins going through the same thing.
> I decided that converting courses was NOT the best way to migrate to 2.4 from 1.9 for us
ACK.
> 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
Shouldn't that be the _upgrade_ procedure, not the installation?
> After running all night, 2.2 was working this morning
This on your own dedicated server?
> 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
That step was in my opinion too hasty. You need 2.2 put to a thorough test. I don't mean the conversion, I mean working with the new version. Keep the old version ready, if the new one is not satisfactory.
> 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
242 MB is harmless. See the current discussion https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=218782 for a 5 GB database.
> 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...
Neither do I.
;-(