Hello,
First, pardon my ignorance. I am a high school math and science teacher who got sick and tired of grading thousands of pages of papers and waiting for my rural, small school district to get access to a Moodle server so I built one myself with our IT person, who is also very green on all of this.
I have been running this version of Moodle 3.1 (Build 20160623) very well for two years and am looking to upgrade during the summer to keep on top of things. My website is:
http://www.boycevillemoodle.com/moodle
I have already checked and got the OK for everything in the Server > Environment window. Everything is OK.
I have download the files for the Moodle 3.3 build (which works with my PHP 5.6...another story, I can't get any PHP 7 versions to work) and dumped them into a new folder called Moodle (I kept the old Moodle 3.1 build and just renamed it Moodle_OLD). I can go through the start to installation, but I get a 500 Internal Server Error on the page immediately after I put in my username/password/etc. for my MySQLdatabase, which works fine with Moodle 3.1 In the meantime I have switched back to Moodle 3.1 and I have tried dozens of ideas, with no luck.
Ideally I want to move to Moodle 3.5 but I can't get PHP 7 working at all with any version of Moodle.
I have a Windows Server 2008 r2 with IIS 7.5
MySQL Version 5.7
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Andy Hamm
Boyceville Community School District
Boyceville, WI