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no access from inside network

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no access from inside network

by T.C. Chappelear - Wednesday, September 27, 2006, 11:33 AM

Hello, I have installed moodle using XAMPP for windows xp and am running the server on a desktop. I am in a k-12 setting and we have set up an external ip address outside the network so that teachers could access moodle from home (or anywhere). The problem is that while we have access from outside the network - we can't access the server from inside the network. This means that I can't even log in on local host and do anything from school. The main problem of course is that we can't access the server from school. I have spent some time on appachefriends.org and have a query in there but I thought that I would ask here also. If anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate it. I know this is probably outside of Moodle but it is a server issue - I think. Thanks.

T.C.

Re: no access from inside network

by Hiroki Inoue - Wednesday, September 27, 2006, 12:41 PM

How did you configure your Moodle host, with IP address or hostname(like www.someschool.edu)?

If you use external IP for conenctions from outside, have private address on network setting on Windows box and use NAT to be available from outside, local users can't find the server.

In that case, please modify config.php to use hostname and add DNS entry to the name server at your school to point the server with private IP address to be available from LAN.

In case if you configure differently, please let me know to find a solution.

Hiro

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Re: no access from inside network

by Visvanath Ratnaweera - Wednesday, September 27, 2006, 1:10 PM

This has nothing to do with server performance. The proper forum is "Installation problems" I guess.

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