Hi to all forum members!
This is my first time here and I have setup moodle a few times, fantastic it is too. I have a small setup which I will go over before explaining my problem in full (I find it best when asking for help to explain what I have done) .
I have a firewall/router called IPCOP, I have a internal green zone safe from bad packets and with this I have a DMZ zone with qmail, apache on fedora core 1 with around 15 domains hosting over a standard ADSL line.
I have setup moodle on my internal green network with a test dns & web server and it works like a dream (same as my DMZ server). A local school wants to play with moodle so I decided to use a spare domain name, setup a virtual host and begun the install from the DMZ server.
Now, operating from my internal network and from a remote proxy on the net produced the same problem. The first page appears fine so I click next, then I get a pass on all tests, click next and I get the screen from the 1st settings, It retreves the domain name, web dir etc but when I click next the thing freezes, eventualy it returns the error moodle could not be found on that domain name.
If I attempt to do anything without closing the browser it simply will not comminicate. I thought it might be the IPCOP deny a PHP request and baning me, but it is not.
To determin if it was a miss configured server I ran the install on the web server as localhost, the setup completed so it is to do with IPCOP. After I simply went into the config.php and changed the url to the domain name!
Great, it works instide and out, so what was the installer doing that IPCOP does not like. I have been to varoius forums for IPCOP but they think its related to moodle (not that old chestnut again)?
Now as I said it works except one thing that produces the same problem as the installer did, in admin if you go to varibles. Thats the only page that does it as before, what ever is in the installer the IPCOP does not like it happens accessing the varibles page.
IPCOP is a very stable open source firewall and I am hasstling them about what PHP call would temperaly block access, but no luck.....
If any one has any ideas I would be very greatfull, is anyone else using IPCOP 1.4 and runnning moodle in the DMZ?
Anyway, many thanks in advance
Regards
Paul
