Upgrading Moodle on Ubuntu

[ITBlandster]

Hello, can some on please advise me the best way of upgrading Moodle which is based on Ubuntu 16.04? We currently have Moodle version 3.2.1 and would like to upgrade to latest version.

[3s-gtech]

The server OS isn't too important, so long as you check that PHP, MySQL (or whichever DB) and any other required components are up-to-date enough for the new version. The newest version of Moodle needs PHP 7. Then, take a full backup of your site - crucially this needs to include a dump of your moodledata directory too. Once done, put Moodle in maintenance mode, rename the old Moodle directory (using a program like WinSCP is usually best here), create a new directory with the correct name and put the new update files into there. Add the config file from your old install to the new one. Then navigate to the site and run through the upgrade steps (you may run into issues if you have extra modules, just copy these over from your old install if so). If all is well, it should then upgrade for you.

[ITBlandster]

Thanks, that has now all worked!