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Creating Moodle site data directory/Data directory

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The Moodle data directory (often called moodledata) contains course and site information that is accessible from the web by many users. Each site will differ.

Sub directories

  • Courses folder are labeled with their course id numbers
  • cashe
  • lang - holds other language directories, or edited language php files
  • sessions - holds session information for users
  • temp - has subfolders for backup, csvimport, unzip, typo3temp and other directories
  • upgradelogs - hold logfiles generated when Moodle upgraded
  • user - each user has a folder that is labeled with their user id
Example of moodledata folder in a Windows localhost server

See also

Creating Moodle site data directory