I downloaded the latest stable version of Moodle and upgraded HEDD. All seems to be working properly at this point.

Upgrade procedure:

1. Set the site in maintenance mode (only admins can log in).
2. Archive old /data/moodle directory (I use tar, but the rsync nightly copy ought to work).
3. Unpack the new Moodle distribution into /data/moodle.
4. Go to the admin URL (/admin). Moodle will automatically detect the new version and perform the upgrades.
5. Look around to make sure things are ok.
6. Turn off maintenance mode.

ETA: The upgrade from 1.5.1 to 1.5.3+ does not seem to work properly for the wiki module. I grabbed the tarball I made in step 2 and made that the active version. The database now complains slightly about prior version numbers when entering admin mode, but the site works properly.

HEDD continues as it always has. We have upgraded Moodle periodically.

The current stable version of Moodle is now in production on the new server HEDD.

This server is a Sun Fire V210 purchased under Sun’s educational matching grant program to run our instance of Moodle. Technical details can be found in TWiki.

As with the testing server last semester, we are copying the Moodle data to PAX every night via rsync. The testing Moodle instance from spring 2004 is also available on the server as a reference, although we’re not maintaining it in any fashion.