registration - moodle.org pending and denied

registration - moodle.org pending and denied

by Lee T Davy -
Number of replies: 10
I am finally able to post to this moodle.org.
I am using another email account.
I tried to register the website using
moodle/admin/register.php but got this reply.

Phillip Lynch wrote: (sent from DONOTREPLY@moodle.org)

Thanks for registering details of your Moodle site with Moodle.org!

http://website.in.question/moodle

Unfortunately we could NOT accept it for the listing (http://moodle.org/sites).

Reasons for this usually include:
- the site was on an intranet and not accessible from outside
- the site was protected by a password or another method
- the site didn't have any content yet
- the site was obviously only a temporary testing site

If this situation changes in future, please try registering again!

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The associated email account is now inaccesable and pending.
I found in docs.moodle.org the account re-registration without site registration.

Problem is the closing slash on the website name is required to post to
http://moodle.org/register/

http://website.in.question/moodle/ <----

but I am unable to add it in the administration page when registering so I can't try again.
or can I ? big grin
or should I edit the moodle/admin/register.php line which reads
echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"url\" value=\"$CFG->wwwroot\" />\n";
to test site before registering ?big grin
or is it APPLE OS X problem ?big grin
config.php points to local and is saying (notice missing close slash)
$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://macsystem.local/moodle';
$CFG->dirroot = '/Library/WebServer/Documents/moodle';

What's a teacher to do ?




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Re: registration - moodle.org pending and denied

by Lee T Davy -
I am now trying to find the problem on the local machine.
I can see http://somenode.domain.net/moodle is failing and
then getting to http://macsystem.local/moodle .
It works ok here but not from home which is like the registration system sees.


Starting with http://somenode.domain.net/moodle/ never see's the problem

I installed PHP and MySql

http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mac-os-x-installation.html
which closely follows

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Step-by-step_Guide_for_Installing_Moodle_on_Mac_OS_X_10.4_Client

EXCEPT
SMTP mail transport at http://www.witimix.com/ is Red Hat Linux TEST PAGE instead of support site.

Other similar applications act the same such as mambo so seems to be OS X traceable ?
I can't tell until I test from home.

Anyone else reading this and trying to solve ?




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Re: registration - moodle.org pending and denied

by Martin Dougiamas -
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http://macsystem.local/moodle is not a real address ... it's a local address your Mac is creating for you on your own machine. No-one from outside your machine will see that name or can find your machine from that name.

You need to give your machine a fixed IP and set up a DNS name to point to that IP number so that anyone on the internet can reach your machine.
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Re: registration - moodle.org pending and denied

by Lee T Davy -

Since using my valid email as the admin account
I am unable to read or post to the forums with that email.
I am blocked and needed to create a new account just for
forums on moodle.org.

My point is that my VALID LEGAL ADDRESS

is the address to list but the registration module submits address
without the last slash which causes MAC OS X based systems

to do some sort of translation to http://cool-mac-mini.home/moodle .
I can edit the register.php to create the valid version but more will see the same problem.


This is the problem I am trying to resolve that I believe has a solution globally.

In the same case MAMBO Bad LINK also does it.
It should be Good Link !

I feel even the commercial version is prone to this short coming.

I am unclear how to ask the question and where to ask.

I am unable to resolve this problem, but if I do I hope if and when I do ,
someone is listening or says they see the reasoning for pursuing it to conclusion.

I will thank anyone for responding with a solution.

I also appologize for sounding angered but I am asking for a green light and getting dialog on how electricity works.

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Re: registration - moodle.org pending and denied

by Martin Dougiamas -
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OK, thanks for providing some real data about the site.

The problem is that you have these two addresses defined for the same site, and www.cool-mac-mini.home one is the DEFAULT.

When a browser goes to http://clubhouse.coolgames.net:8080/moodle your apache web server is redirecting the user to the DEFAULT http://www.cool-mac-mini.home/moodle/ address (which doesn't work for anyone else but you).

You need to change your web server (is it Apache?) to make clubhouse.coolgames.net:8080 the default address. How you do this will depend on how your server is set up, but usually there is a httpd.conf somewhere that you can edit (use Spotlight to search for it).

Look for:

ServerName something:80

in the upper part of that file, and change it to:

ServerName clubhouse.coolgames.net:8080

and then restart everything.

By fixing this you will not only fix this problem but also a lot of other future problems you might have with other web applications.

Does that help?

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Re: registration - moodle.org pending and denied

by Lee T Davy -
The LIGHT cool is GREEN approve !!!!

Where do I send the MANY THANKS ?

ServerName in /etc/httpd.conf changed !

Now I can (and may already be) registered !!

This page allows you to register your Moodle site with moodle.org. Registration is free. The main benefit of registering is that you will be added to a low-volume mailing list for important notifications such as security alerts and new releases of Moodle.

By default, your information will be kept private, and will never be sold or passed on to anyone else. The only reason for collecting this information is for support purposes, and to help build up a statistical picture of the Moodle community as a whole.

If you choose, you can allow your site name, country and URL to be added to the public list of Moodle Sites.

All new registrations are verified manually before they are added to the list, but once you are added you can update your registration (and your entry on the public list) at any time by resubmitting this form.


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Re: registration - moodle.org pending and denied

by Daniele Cordella -
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> Where do I send the MANY THANKS ?

Take care.
In these forums it will become a routine. You will understand that there are millions of reasons (a couple per day) to send many thanks to all. So... start with caution. wink
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Re: registration - moodle.org

by Doris Johnson -

I have tried to register my site several times. I receive the mesage below which looks like the site was accepted, but we aren't listed on the "moodle sites" and my registration button is still there. Do you have any ideas about what might be wrong? Thanks for any help you can give me.

Moodle Registration

Thank you for keeping your entry updated.

Your previous information has been overwritten and your new information is active immediately.

Click the button below to return to your site and disable any registration reminders.

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Re: registration - moodle.org

by Helen Foster -
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Hi Doris,

After registering your site, the Moodle registration button is moved to the bottom of the page. The button remains there so that you can update the details of your registration.

To be listed on http://moodle.org/sites/ you need to select one of the "Publish the site name" options when you register.

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Re: registration - moodle.org

by Doris Johnson -
Button is still at the top of the page. I have tried to publish the site again trying different options;  With a link and without a link. I am not receiving any errors but cannot see the site in the list, Kilgore College. I looked through the entire list (all countries) to see if it was somehow published to a different country. I'm out of ideas.
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Re: registration - moodle.org

by Richard Enison -
DJ & HF,

At the top of the list page, it says, "(Note: sites that are unreachable or obviously just for testing are not accepted)." Perhaps that's why your site is not listed.

I wonder how long it takes moodle.org to tell if a site is "obviously just for testing". I mean, is there an automated way to make such a determination? If there is a staff of human beings accessing Moodle sites all over the world as they are registered, how long a backlog do they have? Perhaps there is a turnaround time of days, weeks, ... that one must wait before one's site appears on the list.

RLE
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