Moving to new server

Moving to new server

Andy Tierling -
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I have inherited a project where a Moodle site has been developed in AWS using a dynamic IP address.

I have taken a snapshot of this dev server and created a new instance, this worked fine with a new IP address (once I had used the replace tool to update all instances of IP address and updated the config.php). See first attachment.

As soon as I attach a fixed Domain with DNS entries to a fixed IP address (both a and Cname records) and update the config.php I cannot login to the site to run the replace tool. See second attachment.

It feels like I am missing something obvious but after a lot of head scratching I cannot work out what it is.

Hopefully somebody can provide some pointers because so far I am loving the Moodle system and would be super please to get this working.


Many thanks

Andy



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回复Andy Tierling

Re: Moving to new server

Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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I get the login screen by visiting the "Log in" link, yoursite/login/index.php.
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Re: Moving to new server

Andy Tierling -
Many thanks for taking the time to read my post and replying.

I should have been more clear, I get to an unstyled login page, but when I enter username and password, I get a this is unsecure message, I continue on but the login doesn't work and I am taken back to the login screen.
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Re: Moving to new server

Gareth J Barnard -
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Does config.php still have the site at "gama-iq.com"? If not then you need to redo the 'replace tool' bit. The reason you're getting no styles is because the URL's are still using what was set in config.php when the site was working....

Ah, I see it was working with a static IP address, so you need to do the 'replace' / migrate again -> https://docs.moodle.org/401/en/Moodle_migration - so just because I suspect you've got a DNS entry for 'gama-iq.com' that points to the IP, that doesn't mean that you can change config.php from that IP to the domain and it will work... i.e.
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Re: Moving to new server

Ken Task -
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Have you setup a certificate for the server's fully qualified domain name yet? (that of gama-iq.com)?   Also, if so, is port 443 open to the globe?   Is firewall for your server allowing any port 80 or 443 traffic?

Moodle caches ... a lot ... a change to either protocol or FQDN requires change to config.php and the running of search and replace from admin side of Moodle.

One could go directly using browser URL to:

http(s)://fqdn/admin/purgecaches.php

You should be prompted to login first and redirected to that script after you have logged on.

'SoS', Ken


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Re: Moving to new server

Gareth J Barnard -
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P.S. Like Ken is indicating, "I get a this is unsecure message" is down to the site not being HTTPS. Thus, two issues here. HTTP to HTTPS and migrating the domain.
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Re: Moving to new server

Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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It depends on how the web server is configures and Moodle too. If the web server serves HTTP for that domain, you should have $CFG->wwwroot='http://YOURDOMAIN'. if it servers HTTPS, then $CFG->wwwroot='https://YOURDOMAIN'.

Well, a back-and-forth between these two can cause havoc, since many things get cached in the server as well as the client. So try with another browser, another computer.

And the only problems is the "insecure" warning? That comes from the browser. You can accept it and move forward.

If you get it halfway running, try to run https://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_migration#Update_links_containing_wwwroot_in_the_database.

If nothing helps, switch on https://docs.moodle.org/en/Debugging and get a full trace.

P.S. It is never too late to read the documentation, https://docs.moodle.org/en/Moodle_migration.

P.S. Generally, I avoid exposing the real domain and the IP address of Moodles falling sick.
;)
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Re: Moving to new server

Andy Tierling -
Thank you everyone for all of your help.

Most of my issues were resolved by making sure the config.php wwwroot entry went to the https://FQDN.
Final step was to run the find and replace tool again.
So far all my testing has been successful.

Thanks again!
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