Mahara: troubleshooting a nonrecoverable error when migrating and upgrading to another server

Some days ago we moved our Mahara 1.7.2  database (MySQL)  to a new machine to separte both web and database servers. Some days later we performed and upgrade to 1.8.1 and, after sorting out some issues related to collation, everything seemed to run as it was expected but, as I tried to clean my inbox …

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Mahara: How to solve collation issue when upgrading

Today I upgraded our Mahara site from version 1.7.2 to 1.8.1 (current version). What it was expected to be an easy procedure turned out to a trouble due to a database (MySQL) collation issue. Below are the details: After doing all backups as it’s required I downloaded and unzip the new version to perform the …

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