Moodle – Font Awesome does not show in the :before pseudo content

When upgraded Moodle 3.11 to 4.4, the Font Awesome icons in the :before pseudo content disappeared. Moodle 3.11 – HTML list with Font Awesome icons Moodle 4.4 – HTML list, Font Awesome icons disappeared It turned out, that due to a major upgrade of Font Awesome from 4.x to 6.x in Moodle 4.2, some Font […]

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Moodle – Creating a theme based on boost for 4.x

Moodle has a great documentation page for creating a theme based on Boost theme but that one is for Moodle 3.2 and it does not work for 4.x versions. I had to create a child theme recently, so now I have the steps for a tutorial for the 4.x versions. Getting started The tutorial is […]

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Moodle’s Cache (MUC) Configuration Location

First of all, caching is important. A cache is a collection of processed data that is kept on hand and re-used to avoid costly repeated database queries. The default cache setting is quite good but if you are running a big Moodle instance or you using cloud services where the IOPS is limited you need […]

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MAHOODLE Payload not encryptedERROR 1:1:Payload not encrypted

When trying to export an assignment document to Mahara and we get the following error: Payload not encryptedERROR 1:1:Payload not encryptedDebug: \nError code: failedtopingline 280 of /portfolio/mahara/lib.php: portfolio_export_exception thrown line 57 of /portfolio/mahara/preconfig.php: call to portfolio_plugin_mahara->send_intent()\n, referer: http://moodle.appi.bme.hu/mod/assign/view.php Most likely we are behind a firewall. If both Moodle and Mahara servers are behind the firewall […]

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Mahara Moodle SSO – Unknown error 710

I have got a mail from one of our students, that she can not log in using SSO from Moodle. The Apache log said: [Thu Oct 10 10:46:38 2013] [warn] [client 192.168.1.2] mod_fcgid: stderr: [WAR] fe (api/xmlrpc/client.php:173) Unknown error occurred: 710: Az al\xc3\xa1\xc3\xadr\xc3\xa1s-ellen\xc5\x91rz\xc3\xa9s sikertelen; az azonos\xc3\xadt\xc3\xa1st feltehet\xc5\x91leg nem \xc3\x96n \xc3\xadrta al\xc3\xa1., referer: http://moodle.appi.bme.hu/ [Thu Oct […]

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