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Error when enabling SSL

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Error when enabling SSL

by Peter B - Monday, June 17, 2013, 9:34 AM

I have purchased a certificate, enabled ssl on my server, but when I change the wwwroot to https://.. I get the following error.

Fatal error: $CFG->dataroot is not configured properly, directory does not exist or is not accessible! Exiting.

I left the dataroot the same value. Here is my cfg for this area prior to changing to https://

$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://education.mysite.ca';

$CFG->dataroot = '/<<path>>/vhosts/education.mysite.ca/moodledata';

The dataroot is one level above my httpdocs directory (education.mysite.ca) in a moodledata directory, to provide the required security in moodle 2.x.x

I am currently running Moodle 2.3.3 (Build: 20121112)

Ideas why it complains about dataroot with https but not with http?

Re: Error when enabling SSL

by Peter B - Monday, June 17, 2013, 7:37 PM

Also, if I leave the wwwroot as http: and simply check off use HTTPS for login, my site starts fine but when I press login I get the same error when it tries to serve up via https:

Fatal error: $CFG->dataroot is not configured properly, directory does not exist or is not accessible! Exiting.

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Re: Error when enabling SSL

by Peter B - Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 4:57 AM

Figured it out. Needed to have a vhost_ssl.conf file with the same entries and rebuild

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