Hi All
I have had to change the IP address of our Synology NAS Cluster, and now Moodle is not working. I get this error.
This is only accessed from inside out network, not from outside.
There must be somewhere that I can change the old to the new IP address and off it goes...
Thanks in advance for your assistance
(I did look on this site for other postings, but they only related to external access to moodle)
Best Regards
Rich
Change it in your config.php.
This article from the Synology website might help you though:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/DSM/help/WebStation/application_webserv_php
I can get into the config.php, what would I need to change/add?
Regards
Rich
I now know how to login to the NAS in Linux, I can get to the root, so where do I go to find my config.php?
Regards
Rich
OK, I have figured it out, located and changed the config.php and everything now works fine.
I now understand why there is not much detailed help out there on Synology NAS's as you can REALLY ruin everything on your NAS, and becasue of that no one wants to be part of this.
Here's what I did, but I can't accept any responsibility if you damaged anything, or something doesn't work.
Synology NAS's run a Linux type of OS, so you'll need to know about command like dir, ls pwd and vi (the editor)
I managed to get inside the NAS by using Putty set to ssh.
Then I navigated to the installation folder of moodle (I did a bunch of screenshots as I installed moodle)
I learned the vi text editor by changing some text in the README.txt file in this folder, saving it and reviewing the results.
When I was satisfied that I understood what I was doing I changed the ip address in the config.php file and saved it, and exited the putty session.
I then entered the ip address in my the browser xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/moodle
and bingo I was in.
Thanks for your assistance.
Rich
Congrats! Uhhhh .... you might not be done yet.
In moodle, every internal link to things moodle is recorded in the db for the site using the wwwroot variable ... ie, the IP address you changed in config.php.
So if you get 404 errors using internal links ... ie, notifications link, etc.. then you need to:
1. backup the DB ... sql dump ... I don't know how to do that on a NAS if that's where the DB server is.
2. run search and replace from the Moodle Admin UI:
http://ip/admin/tool/replace/
Search for http://oldip/ replace with http://newip/
That's a global all utility ... so that's why it's important to do #1 above first.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
Top bloke Ken, and thanks for the reply
I haven't gone too deeply into what works and what does not work, I'm just very happy that it's there at all.
I'll refer to this should I need it in future.
I really like your 'spirit of sharing' Ken
Regards
Rich
