I had a site running moodle 1.6.2 on Ubuntu (dapper) server using postgresql (installed with apt-get).
Then, a newer server comes!!! Of course I installed Ubuntu 8.04LTS server & postgresql again.
After trials&errors with moodle 1.6.6, 1.7.4, 1.8.5 & 1.9.1, I’ve got the following…
How to move moodle 1.6.2 site to new server?
On the old server: [my database name for moodle was 'moodle']
$ pg_dump moodle -o moodle.pg_dump
$ tar cf var_www_moodle.tar /var/www/moodle
$ tar cf var_lib_moodle.tar /var/lib/moodle
On new server:
download http://download.moodle.org/download.php/stable16/moodle-1.6.6.tgz
$ sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-pgsql php5-gd libapache2-mod-php5 postgresql-8.3
$ tar zxf moodle-1.6.6.tgz
$ sudo mv moodle/* /var/www/
$ cd /var/www/
# sudo su – postgresql
# psql
psql> create database moodle;
psql> create user moodle with password=’xxx’;
psql> alter database moodle owner to moodle;
psql> \q
# psql moodle < moodle.pg_dump
# exit
$ sudo mkdir /var/moodledata
$ tar xf var_lib_moodle.tar
$ sudo mv var/lib/moodle/* /var/moodledata
$ sudo chown -R nobody /var/moodledata
$ sudo chgrp -R www-data /var/moodledata
$ sudo chmod g+w -R /var/moodledata
$ sudo vim config.php
<?php /// Moodle Configuration File
unset($CFG);
$CFG->dbtype = ‘postgres7′;
$CFG->dbhost = ‘user=\’moodle\’ password=\’xxx\’ dbname=\’moodle\’ host=\’localhost\”;
$CFG->dbpersist = false;
$CFG->prefix = ‘mdl_’;
$CFG->wwwroot = ‘http://my.site.th’;
$CFG->dirroot = ‘/var/www’;
$CFG->dataroot = ‘/var/moodledata’;
$CFG->admin = ‘admin’;
$CFG->directorypermissions = 00777; // try 02777 on a server in Safe Mode
$CFG->unicodedb = true; // Database is utf8
require_once(“$CFG->dirroot/lib/setup.php”);
// MAKE SURE WHEN YOU EDIT THIS FILE THAT THERE ARE NO SPACES, BLANK LINES,
// RETURNS, OR ANYTHING ELSE AFTER THE TWO CHARACTERS ON THE NEXT LINE.
?>
$ firefox http://my.site.th
Done!!!
NOTE: for normal installation 1.6.x, 1.7.x & 1.9.x need the flag ‘host=\’localhost\” 1.8.x doesn’t
