Re: Deploying database changes: dev --> test --> prod
by Emma Richardson. If you are using a preset to change color, just export the preset and then import it - that should take care of it. I haven't used that preset but preset are normally just a file...
View ArticleRe: Deploying database changes: dev --> test --> prod
by Kev Berne. Maybe I'm not being clear. I'm looking for a way to deploy all administrative settings from dev to live. Here's what that would look like:I play around with admin settings locally. I...
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by Emma Richardson. Ok, so what you are describing is way more than just admin settings...plugins and presets will all need to be added individually to the live site. Admin_presets just handles the...
View ArticleRe: Deploying database changes: dev --> test --> prod
by Kev Berne. I just want to make sure I'm understanding this correctly.There is not one way to transfer all the admin-related data from one instance to another. For courses, I would backup and...
View ArticleRe: Deploying database changes: dev --> test --> prod
by Emma Richardson. It is actually a wise thing. You don't want to just randomly throw plugins, themes, settings over to a different site. It is far wiser to install one plugin at a time and ensure...
View ArticleIssue with exporting (or importing IMSCC)
by brad lineberger. Using: 3.3.1+ (Though i downloaded a fresh 3.4 on spare server and tried this)We have a lot of internally created courses (to moodle), and someone wanted a CC (imscc) formatted...
View ArticleRe: Issue with exporting (or importing IMSCC)
by Helen Foster. Hi Brad,I notice that the documentation IMS Common Cartridge import and export says that only certain activity types can be exported to IMS CC and that Quiz has only partial...
View ArticleRe: 回复: Re: Backups fail: 500 Internal Server Error... Help!
by Travis Mitchell. Moodle Version: Moodle 3.3.1 (Build: 20170710)Database: MSSQLServerWeb Server: Windows Server 2016 Datacenter (Amazon AWS hosting?)I am unable to backup my course. Clicking Backup...
View ArticleRe: Importing D2L Course to Moodle
by Lori Wendt. I'm coming to this party late, but was there a recommendation for D2L importing?In our version of D2L, it just creates an export file...we do not get the option to choose an IMS Common...
View ArticleRe: Deploying database changes: dev --> test --> prod
by Barton Hammond. This is incredibly unsettling to me. I just took an exhaustive amount of time learning how to setup Moodle and configure courses etc, and now I find that all the work I do on a...
View ArticleRe: Deploying database changes: dev --> test --> prod
by Emma Richardson. No. I have not seen any CMS or LMS that has this option (not saying they don't exist but I use Wordpress Joomla etc with the same process.) The problem is that the database is...
View ArticleRe: Increasing space in disk in moodledata/temp/backup
by Séverin Terrier. Hi,The moodledata/temp/backup directory is used (temporarily) when a backup of a course is made. If something goes wrong doing the backup, the data are not deleted from there, and...
View ArticleRe: Deploying database changes: dev --> test --> prod
by Yasser Farid. Hi, actually I'm searching for the same solution you are discussing, soon we built E-Learning portal on our organization using Moodle over Bitnami stack and hosted locally on a...
View ArticleRe: Deploying database changes: dev --> test --> prod
by Emma Richardson. That is the problem - it is not just files and folders. You need to copy across any plugins you have installed or you can just reinstall them from the web installer within Moodle....
View ArticleHow can I restore courses to a new Moodle installation and a year old data...
by randal potratz. I have inherited a tar.gz that is a supposed backup of a moodle installation that got deleted (the whole VM before I got here). The tar.gz contains directories "moodle" ,...
View ArticleManual vs Auto File Size
by Blair F.. I read here that the manual backup file size should be smaller than the auto backup file size and I thought that was actually a good thing. However, I don't find that to be the case....
View ArticleRe: The file you tried to upload is too large for the server to process.
by John Jackson. I'll just chime in here, after addressing the same issue on one of my servers after upgrading to PHP 7.Those variables can be set in several different places, depending on how the...
View ArticleRe: How can I restore courses to a new Moodle installation and a year old...
by Visvanath Ratnaweera. Looks good! See https://docs.moodle.org/en/Site_restore. (It will jump to the latest, /33/ for example. If you have a different version, replace /33/ with /XY/ your version.)
View ArticleRe: Can not restore a course [error/setting_by_name_not_found]
by Nadav Kavalerchik. Thanks! solved our issue as well. (Restoring a course including core Moodle modules, from v3.1 to v3.3)
View ArticleRe: Security copy moodle2 course eating lots of space
by Raúl Martínez Álvarez. Hi,backups are your 'life insurance' of your content: you don't want it to use, but you will like to have one in case you need it. Always create a backup of your content,...
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