Hi
We having been working on Moodle within the College's Intranet (using a ISA server 2004) and would still like to enter within the College's Intranet as well as over the Internet. Two addresses to enter the same location.
Is it possible to have two addresses within the config.php file for our single Moodle installation? would i need to ammend other files?
Please can someone help as we require Moodle internally as well externally.
Thanks, Ali.
Hi Alan
thanks for the reply. Spoke to our IT manager and he thinks that this solution would not work with the way the College has its setup. Have you any other ideas? would it not be possible to ammend the config.php (im not a php programmer) file to read the two addresses?
I read a post http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=28416 where an individual recommended adding in the following code within the config file:
Original:
$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://newtown-hs.powys.sch.uk/vle';
New:
$internal = FALSE;
if (substr($REMOTE_ADDR,0,3) == "10.") $internal = TRUE;
if (substr($REMOTE_ADDR,0,4) == "172.") $internal = TRUE;
if ($internal) {
$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://newtown-hs.powys.sch.uk/vle';
}
else {
$CFG->wwwroot = 'https://schoolmail.newtown-hs.powys.sch.uk/vle';
}
I dont think the REMOTE_ADDR appeals to us.
Thanks again, Ali.
Ali
In our config.php I have replaced the line like:
$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://newtown-hs.powys.sch.uk/vle';
with
if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] == "http://intranet/vle") {
$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://intranet/vle';
} else {
$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://newtown-hs.powys.sch.uk/vle';
}
We are using IIS on a Windows server if you are using Apache you may need to replace the $_SERVER['HTTP-HOST'] but I am not sure as I do not know Apache at all.
Regards
Steve
Hi Alan
Many thanks for your reply. We tried the code Steve kindly posted but only works internally!! I will pass your post onto our IT manager as he controls the DNS etc. and I will let you know what happens.
If anyone else has any ideas please post, this would be much appreciated.
Thanks again, Ali
Hi again
spoke to our IT manager and he has ammended the config file as follows:
if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = 'internal address'){
$CFG->wwwroot = 'external address';
}else{
$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://webserv:8011';}
We can view homepage externaly and internally but can not log in. when we try to log in (as admin, teacher and student) we are taken to the white screen with an error stating: 400 bad request.
We can can also get so far into to moodle but eventually receive the 400 bad request error. It looks like we are very close, has anyone any ideas??
Thanks, Ali.
Hi Iñalki
thanks for your post. This code works internally (intranet) to the max but does not work externally (internet). This is happening with another piece of software (Web Wiz forum) where we can view within the Intranet but not able to view it over the Internet.
would it have to do with something concerning our server, router or firewall setup? I know nothing about server etc setup as I leave this to our IT manager, but he is away at the moment.
Please can anyone help?
Thanks, Ali