Moodle Administrator Guide

# Update & Upgrade

Updates and upgrades are one of the maintenance tasks for system. Programs that are not upgraded for a long time, like buildings that are not maintained for a long time, will accelerate aging and gradually lose functionality until they are unavailable.

You should know the differences between the terms Update and Upgrade(Extended reading (opens new window))

  • Operating system patching is Update, Ubuntu16.04 to Ubuntu18.04 is Upgrade
  • MySQL5.6.25 to MySQL5.6.30 is Update, MySQL5.6 to MySQL5.7 is Upgrade

For Moodle maintenance, focus on the following two Update & Upgrade jobs

  • System update(Operating System and Running Environment)
  • Moodle upgrade

# System Update

Run an update command to complete the system update:

#For Centos&Redhat
yum update -y

#For Ubuntu&Debian
apt update && apt upgrade -y

This deployment package is pre-configured with a scheduled task for automatic updates. If you want to remove the automatic update, please delete the corresponding Cron

# Moodle Upgrade

Moodle provided multiple upgrade methods, includes: automatic upgrade, upload source code for upgrading, using CLI for upgrading

The following steps will introduce how to upgrade by CLI:

  1. Use SSH to connect your Moodle Server

  2. Run the following commands for upgrading

    cd /data/wwwroot/moodle/admin/cli
php upgrade.php

  3. The system will start upgrade

More detail please refer to Moodle official docs Moodle Upgrading (opens new window)

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