On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Anthony Critchley wrote:
> I have yet to solve the problem to be honest, however I have been
> fortunate enough to bring the old apache server back to life...therefore
> I will allow users to work with this moodle until I find the solution.
>
> Do you think it is better then, to update this moodle (1.6.1) to the 1.9
> system before transferring it over to IIS?
I'd reccomend not trying to go straight from 1.6 to 1.9, wherever you do
the actual upgrade, it's probably worth doing an interim upgrade to 1.7 or
1.8 first. In theory 1.6 to 1.9 should be OK, but there were so many
changes to the permissions system between 1.6 and 1.7 an interim step
would be advisable, the less you try to do in one go, the less likely it
is that the upgrade process will go wrong.
My reccomendation would be to transfer the 1.6 system 'as is' to the new
server with the procedure I suggested earlier and then run the upgrades on
that, that way you still have a known working system to go back to if
something else goes wrong.
Otherwise, if you run the upgrade on the old server, make sure you have a
proper backup, ie a database dump and zip of the moodle-data dir before
attempting it, otherwise you might end up with two non-working systems.
Tim W
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