Accessing Moodle

Accessing Moodle

by Shaun Jackson -
Number of replies: 2
I'm new to Moodle and getting it to register is killing me. How do I change the local host to allow others to access my site? how do I get my Moodle site into a website as a webpage? Thanks, been reading forever to find out.
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Re: Accessing Moodle

by Howard Miller -
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Put in the IP address or (if there is one) the dns hostname of the machine then other people on your network should be able to access it using (something like):

http://192.168.1.100/moodle

(changing 192.168.1.100 to your IP of course).

There's a lot of variables, however. It all rather depends on how you have things set up now and how your machine is networked.
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Re: Accessing Moodle

by Lindley Bailey -
First, does your local machine have a static IP address?
To turn a local host into a web server (which an install of moodle is), get your web admin to assign a static IP to your computer, not a dynamic one.
Until this is done, web server software, like apache, sometimes refuses to allow external (but still on the same intranet) machines to connect.
Next, you either have to have your students type in the entire address (i.e. 192.168.0.2/moodle), or configure moodle as your default home page.
What set up do you have? windows/linux? Apache/IIS? as each needs to configured slightly different.
Sincerely,
Lin Bailey