Changing the URL of a Moodle instance later

Changing the URL of a Moodle instance later

- Visvanath Ratnaweera の投稿
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Since the URL of a Moodle instance is stored in its configuration, if you happen to "move" an installation, say from http://mydomain/testmoodle/ to http://moodle.mydomain, needs a few tweaks.

What is the neat way of handling that?

The server is Linux with full (user and root) shell access.
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Re: Changing the URL of a Moodle instance later

- J B の投稿
The site URL is set in the file /testmoodle/config.php as wwwroot.

Open config.php in a text editor, there will be a line: 

    $CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://mydomain/testmoodle';

Change this to read: 

    $CFG->wwwroot   = 'http://moodle.mydomain';
Job done.

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Re: Changing the URL of a Moodle instance later

- Visvanath Ratnaweera の投稿
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That one is too good to be true!

Are you sure, for example, this URL is not stored in the database?
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Re: Changing the URL of a Moodle instance later

- Howard Miller の投稿
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No it isn't stored in the database - UNLESS someone has placed a self-referring link somewhere in a resource.

It's kinda the point of the config file - vital information in one place ベー
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Re: Changing the URL of a Moodle instance later

- J B の投稿
As Howard says.

It helps if your test moodle is in its own subdomain, e.g. test.mydomain.com so you can then structure relative links in the form 

<a href="/course/view.php?id=5"> click here! </a>

then when you move the site to live.mydomain.com all the links will work.

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Re: Changing the URL of a Moodle instance later

- Visvanath Ratnaweera の投稿
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Hi James

> It helps if your test moodle is in its own subdomain, e.g. test.mydomain.com so you can then structure relative links ...

Yes. I have it like http://moodle.mydomain for the production, http://moodle.mydomain/testmoodle/ for the test-run.

I really don't have control over what sort of URL links the course creators set. Will do a SQL dump and check.

Thanks for all the responses!

Visvanath


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Re: Changing the URL of a Moodle instance later

- Howard Miller の投稿
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The only other thing you should watch out for is if you (or anybody else) has used self-referring links anywhere in resource texts. If that is the case and you have a manageable number of courses you may be better to use backup and restore which takes care of that kind of stuff.
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Re: Changing the URL of a Moodle instance later

- Rory Allford の投稿
Does anyone know whether an SQL regex UPDATE is possible (in MySQL), and if so could it be used to change all the stored values of $CFG->wwwroot ? It'd be a nice trick to save doing a full site-wide backup/restore to correct the values.
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Re: Changing the URL of a Moodle instance later

- Visvanath Ratnaweera の投稿
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That was my suspicion too. I expected a full database dump, a run through sed and a restore.

But all the Gurus say that is not necessary, "unless there are self-referencing links in content".
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