Moodle Process note: When doing a Moodle installation, you should use 1 server and the processes outlined for backup/restore/reset a course. # Using two servers and backing up and restoring across servers, unless you’ve an enterprise MySQL installation and team, is bad practice. # Find out how the software was intended to work, how it [...]
If you’ve already got courses built on Moodle using an unsecure server and you switch to a secure server, the http will not auto-translate to https in all of your course links. Moodle seeks out the root file path to swap out and update links when courses are restored – meaning it takes the “http://yourserver.com/file.php/###/” [...]
Restoring across servers is going to break links coded in Moodle modules unless the “add a resource” function is used at the activity level.
Find out how the software was intended to work, how it actually works, and then apply this knowledge.
Using two servers and backing up and restoring across servers, unless you’ve an enterprise MySQL installation and team, is bad practice.
Moodle Process note: When doing a Moodle installation, you should use 1 server and the processes outlined for backup/restore/reset a course.