SQLite
SQLite is a serverless SQL database implementation. Moodle has experimental support for it. It is not recommended for production Moodle sites.
Moodle's SQLite driver requires SQLite PDO driver to be present in PHP. It won't work with native (non-PDO) SQL driver in PHP.
It contains bugs - it just doesn't work. Following documents some attempts to use it and what needs to be investigated.
Moodle 2.2 and SQLite
Following is for Moodle 2.2.4 (Build: 20120706). Probably the same for 2.2.11 (build 20130708). You need to set the following parameters. It will work if you don't set the null values, but you'll get notices if you set PHP debug level to high.
$CFG->dbtype= 'sqlite3'; $CFG->dblibrary= 'pdo'; $CFG->dbhost= null; $CFG->dbname= null; $CFG->dbuser= null; $CFG->dbpass= null; $CFG->dbprefix= ""; // any prefix (e.g. 'mdl') is ignored, therefore don't use it, because it upsets 3rd party modules $CFG->dboptions= array();
Then you need to fix lib/ddl/sqlite_sql_generator.php. Copy definitions of functions getCreateTempTableSQL($xmldb_table) and getDropTempTableSQL($xmldb_table) from lib/ddl/postgres_sql_generator.php.
Then installation works fine; however, it dies after installed, saying 'PHP catchable fatal error'. Let's investigate:
cd <moodledata> ll *sq* -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 1624064 Oct 23 08:46 _d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.sq3.php # your DB file may have a different name _d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.sq3.php # change ownership, so that I can write to the DB. Change group access rights, so that Apache can still write to it. sudo chown <myusername> _d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.sq3.php chmod g+w _d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.sq3.php sqlite _d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e.sq3.php SELECT * FROM config WHERE name LIKE '%debug%'; UPDATE config SET value=32767 WHERE name='debug'; -- This is for PHP 5.4+ .quit
Then you get following and more warnings, and it dies:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/elearning/lib/enrollib.php on line 604 Warning: array_key_exists() expects parameter 2 to be array, boolean given in /var/www/html/elearning/lib/navigationlib.php on line 1069 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/elearning/lib/navigationlib.php on line 1074 Warning: array_slice() expects parameter 1 to be array, boolean given in /var/www/html/elearning/lib/navigationlib.php on line 1632 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/elearning/lib/navigationlib.php on line 1635 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/elearning/lib/navigationlib.php on line 1711 Strict standards: Non-static method PEAR::setErrorHandling() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/elearning/lib/formslib.php on line 64 Strict standards: Non-static method HTML_QuickForm::registerElementType() should not be called statically, assuming $this from incompatible context in /var/www/html/elearning/lib/formslib.php on line 2517 ... Strict standards: Declaration of repository_instance_form::validation() should be compatible with moodleform::validation($data, $files) in /var/www/html/elearning/repository/lib.php on line 1888 Strict standards: Declaration of repository_type_form::validation() should be compatible with moodleform::validation($data, $files) in /var/www/html/elearning/repository/lib.php on line 1990 Strict standards: Declaration of repository_local::get_listing() should be compatible with repository::get_listing($path = , $page = ) in /var/www/html/elearning/repository/local/lib.php on line 168 Strict standards: Declaration of repository_recent::type_config_form() should be compatible with repository::type_config_form($mform, $classname = 'repository') in /var/www/html/elearning/repository/recent/lib.php on line 236 Strict standards: Declaration of repository_upload::get_listing() should be compatible with repository::get_listing($path = , $page = ) in /var/www/html/elearning/repository/upload/lib.php on line 204 Strict standards: Declaration of repository_user::get_listing() should be compatible with repository::get_listing($path = , $page = ) in /var/www/html/elearning/repository/user/lib.php on line 135 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/elearning/lib/enrollib.php on line 160 Strict standards: Declaration of enrol_manual_plugin::get_bulk_operations() should be compatible with enrol_plugin::get_bulk_operations() in /var/www/html/elearning/enrol/manual/lib.php on line 292
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Moodle 2.6.1+ (build 20140207)
Preparing config.php in the above way wasn't good enough. The install doesn't even start. http://localhost/moodle-26/admin/index.php?lang=en&agreelicense=1 lists 'database' server check: Error reading environment data (10).
There also is lib/ddl/sqlite_sql_generator.php, which probably needs to be fixed.
From old documentation
The other database parameters are not used. The database tables are stored in the 'moodledata' file area.
