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Moodle is an open source learning management system (LMS) written in PHP.

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Multiple entries in apache access log

In the apache access log for bitnami moodle on GCP, there are multiple entries (added every second!!) as given below. This is leading to a very high egress traffic. I would appreciate any pointers to ...
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ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS when setting up NGINX proxy in front of NGINX proxy and moodle in k8s

I have a pod running moodle and it has NGINX in front of it. The configuration of it is here: https://github.com/google/moodle-on-gcp/blob/main/4-moodle-image-builder/base/etc/nginx/nginx.conf In my ...
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I am noticing spike in CPU usage in the server, please see the image

I am noticing spike in CPU usage in the server, please see the image. How do I know which is process is causing the CPU usage spike. I am trying to figure out why the spike is there. Is there a tool ...
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How to tell sqlsrv extension (php8.1-fpm) to accept self signed certificate?

I am currently encountering a problem on a Moodle server which uses an external MS SQL DB for its authentication and enrollments. During connection, an error occurs related to a self-signed ...
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Nginx proxy on moodle error - too many redirects

I'm learning about proxy cache and load balancing on Nginx lately and been having some problems trying to make a proxy work for a moodle installation that i have, it says "too many redirects"...
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LDAPS Auth very slow in Moodle

I have a moodle-installation that uses LDAPS auth which is very slow or does not work at all. It is debian 12, apache2.4, moodle4.1 and php7.4. I had a test installation where things were just fine, I ...
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OpenLDAP + Moodle, member of groups

the teachers in my OpenLDAP are in cn=teachers,ou=groups,dc=school,dc=de the course creator context in my Moodle installation should then be the same if I am not mistaken. If I query ldap BINDUSER=&...
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OPTIMIZE TABLE innodb file per table while system is running

I had an 800 GB Moodle mdl_logstore_standard_log.ibd database file. I deleted around 900 million rows in 10-15 days. The .idb file was around 800GB and still the same size after deletion. I want to ...
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Moodle Migration to new server

I have been running a moodle server in aws. Recently the server became not accessible through ssh or http protocols. On trying several things I had to start anew server. The storage of old server is ...
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Active Directory Limited Admin for Moodle LDAP integration

I have Moodle which I already integrated to Active Directory (LDAP). The integration needs user for binding (To authenticate users). I want to limit that user because its currently member of Domain ...
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WordPress+HTML -> Moodle

One has a site with a lot of (a lot of a lot of) pages in HTML. The pages are managed through WordPress and includ motions, different fonts, videos, images, etc., ie, are elaborated pages. Because of ...
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configure nginx to work with django and moodle

I'm trying to configure nginx to run a moodle website in parallel to a django one and a jellyfin one. My domain name is www.example.com and I would like to set everything that ends with www.example....
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Is there "another" way of getting log information on SFTP activity?

I'm administrating a debian server since last week. It used to have another administrator. I presume it's been hacked: files might have been read via SFTP to obtain information about a site that's ...
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Website fail over using 2 IP address

We have a moodle webserver with 2 Public IPs (different ISPs). Is it possible to make a mechanism, to access the website with other IP, if the first ISP connections fail? We have added 2 public IPs in ...
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My site redirect me to my ip address [duplicate]

Hi i'm using nginx and ubuntu 18 for my moodle site i add a domain, and everytime i try to access it , it alway redirect me to my IP address. here is my block server { listen 80; listen [::]:80; root /...
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Virtual Host Setup Redirecting Request to Local IP address

I want to make an application running on apache2 (ubuntu) available over the internet. So i decided to setup virtual host after purchasing a SSL certificate. Everything works fine on my Local network. ...
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Moodle over dedicated server suddenly stopping

moodle suddenly stops over a cloud server I migrated my cloud to GoDaddy's Dedicated server it was working fine but today moodle suddenly is stopping and then going online again the stop lasts between ...
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httpd cannot access external directory - moodle

I am installing moodle in rhel instance. I want to keep the directory 'moodle' outside of the /var/www/http. I followed this documentation. In order to define the moodle directory, I updated the /etc/...
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Azure files with Network File System

I have to run Moodle production servers in Azure. Need to keep userdata (moodledata folder) in a common location like NFS for better management and scalability. I tried Azure Files-SMB service (...
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Moodle 3.7 & Apache & reverse proxy results ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS

Moodle 3.7 Apache with reverse proxy results ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. I have an SSL site with following vhosts file on Frontend server: <VirtualHost *:80> RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off ...
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can't ssh to download data from gcloud instance running centos6 to get moodle backup due to possible hack

I have a centos 6 lamp moodle server in a gcloud vm instance, 2 days ago users reported issues accessing moodle with a database connection error. Through my research this is what I found: restarting ...
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Moodle: Error during Installation

I am trying to install Moodle and everything seems fine but then when it comes to Admin user creation process, it seems as there is no CSS file, and "update profile" button does not perform any action....
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Redirect from http to https stopped working after update of Moodle

After Moodle elearning system update, the redirection from http to https is not working anymore. Environment: Debian 9, Bitnami Moodle appliance, Apache web server Port 80 and 443 are opened in ...
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Ellakcy moodle-compose repo: Used the solution but I get 303 redirect loop

I used the docker-moodle solution offered from ellkcy's repository that used their built docker images. But for some reason I get a 303 redirect loop and the browser fails to load the moodle. Over my ...
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Moodle behind ssl reverse proxy: "Reverse proxy enabled, server can not be accessed directly, sorry."

I tried to make moode run behind a ssl reverse proxy using this solution but I get the following error: Reverse proxy enabled, server can not be accessed directly, sorry. Please contact server ...
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Failing to correctly parse Slash Arguments with php-fpm/apache

I recently set up a new webhosting server at work on a Debian Stretch system using Apache 2.4 and PHP7 via proxy_fcgi and php-fpm. It worked fine in the testing stages, but the first customer is ...
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Need help on configuring subdomain pointing to a server's IP address

I have a subdomain lms.domain.com on godaddy's servers shared hosting. I want the subdomain to point to the server ipaddress/moodle I have configured it but the subdomain is redirecting to IP address. ...
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nginx use subfolder and 'A record'

I'm really stuck here, and could not find help in related posts and it's the first time I'm dealing with nginx. I have a 'Moodle' installation running with nginx on my Synology NAS and would like to ...
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How to use CDN to accelerate simple video site with PHP dynamic loading video files like Moodle?

I created a site with Moodle, and not very satisfied with the connection speed for video files stored on server. And I know CDN can accelerate the video file loading speed. But I 'm quite new and not ...
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Moodledata on EFS

I am in the process of setting up moodle an on AWS. I am a little bit confused about where to put my moodledata directory as I will need to read/write to this directory from multiple EC2 instances. I ...
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PHPMailer, from EC2 to SES AWS limits

I need a clarification on something. I have installed Moodle on an 2 EC2 instances as cluster. Moodle is using PHPMailer. In the settings of Moodle I have set the SMTP host as email-smtp.us-east-1....
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Running Moodle on Windows 2008 Server other than Webmatrix

I am an educator and not a tech savvy but managed to install a Moodle installation in Windows 2008 server for the local network via the following environment: WebMatrix Version 3.0: 7.1.1934.0 IIS ...
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How to configure SSL using two different Web Servers

I am a noob when it comes to System Administration & Networking and I thought I would get some valuable insight from the pros in here. I work for my University's IT department and I overlook the ...
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Moodle on EFS is slow

I hope you can help me with me problem with EFS. I have installed Moodle on an Amazon EC2 and I mounted EFS following the guides provided in the website. The problem I face is that Moodle is very ...
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Moodledata on shared storage on AWS

I am in the process of setting up a simple Moodle cluster on AWS for production use. The plan is to use a loadblancer, two EC2 instances and a RDS. I have worked extensively with Moodle before but ...
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How to disable suhosin only for a certain directory

I need suhosin disabled for my moodle directory, would putting a .htaccess file disable it only for that directory or would that disable it for the whole site?
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I can't have my virtualhosts working properly in Apache

Although I know that this topic has been already discussed in some other threads where it is explained how to configure Virtualhosts in Apache. The thing is after looking for possible answers to my ...
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Moodle 2.9 super slow on wamp

I have a Moodle platform on WAMP architecture (2 app servers and 1 db server, all working with the same shared directory for moodle files). Php 5.5.12 Apache 2.4.9 Mysql 5.6.17 Win server 2012r2 The ...
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Moodle: since Update to 2.9.1, User can't change their password

recently I updated a moodle site from 2.6.7 to 2.9.1. The moodle itself runs quit fine, but user can't change their passwords anymore. I checked the roles settings: ("moodle/user:changeownpassword = ...
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How can I use mod_auth_cas to authenticate Moodle?

What I want For various reasons, I'd like to see the following authentication procedure work: go to moodle.blah.bla Apache asks for your login information via mod_auth_cas Once authenticated, Apache ...
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Cookies Not Setting in Load-Balanced Environment

I have an Nginx load balancer load balancing two nginx servers serving PHP content (Moodle) up. They share the same database and use the same sessions directory using an NFS share on a separate server....
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Where should I start to try and debug a CPU spike and timeout when logging in to a Moodle site?

apologies for the newbie nature of this question .. I am a web developer though don't have too much experience maintaining servers or debugging and fixing performance issues. I have a Moodle site (...
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Using Apache2 Worder MPM with Moodle

Is Moodle (I am using Moodle 2.5.2) compatible with Apache2 "Worker MPM" (in contrast to "Prefork MPM"). If it is indeed compatible, has has anyone tried both and is able to say which performs better ...
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nginx, php and urls with php files in them [closed]

I've just done an install of moodle and it's using urls like this for its theme: http://moodle.example.com/theme/styles.php/standard/1380191797/all nginx isn't picking up that that's a call to a PHP ...
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CentOS: Can't connect remotely to mysql server but I can 'nc' to it

I have two VMs, both running CentOS. One is web server: 10.2.2.59 -- in this server I put Moodle web application files. One is DB server: 10.2.2.58 I installed MySQL and it is running nice, changed ...
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Running Moodle with nginx in userdir (slash arguments)

I am moving Moodle (moodle.org) from an Apache host to a Ubuntu 12.04 LTS host running Nginx. The way the host is set up means that it will running quite a few domains where every domain (or other ...
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Moodle data folder error

I am trying to set up an instance of Moodle on Amazon EC2 for a Uni project. I follow the installation tutorial to the "T" but when I try to access the url, all I get is this: Fatal error: $CFG->...
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moodle with 10 threads is slow on lighttpd

I runnnig Moodle on Lighttpd on Centos 6 with 1G RAM. If I open 10 threads to moodle then moodle starting to be very slow. How I can to speed the server? I need to serve lot of users. I checked the ...
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Error in mysql "max_allowed_packet" VPS godaddy

I am getting error "Serious session error detected. Please notify administrator, this problem is most probably caused by small value in max_allowed_packet MySQL setting. " This error generally ...
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A stock install of Moodle doesn't seem to run on CentOS or RHEL 6.3

I've got a clean instance of CentOS and a clean instance of RHEL 6.3 - I've tried to installed Moodle on both. Error: Database connection failed It is possible that the database is overloaded or ...
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