[Moodle] OT intranet gateway

[victor rajewski]

I have absolutely no idea about how to set up tomcat to do this,
though I thought tomcat was a java server thingie made by the same
folks who make apache, so it may actually sit on top of apache (or
not).

vik

On 6/15/07, WEIR Andrew <WEIR at thomascarr.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> The cms in question uses tomcat as a web server. We are using docushare
> as the cms
>
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> Well, you could use http authentication to allow access to the
> webserver. The application (CMS) would then have to deal with it's own
> authentication. So everyone would have to authenticate twice - once to
> access the web server, then (for staff) to log in as themselves (for
> students) to log in as the guest. I don't know which web server you are
> using, so can't point to how you would set this up. If you cannot access
> the webserver itself, you could set up apache as a front-side proxy,
> which would handle the webserver authentication then forward the page
> request to the CMS.
>
> You would want to log which user logs in from which IP address (in the
> webserver) so you could match this to the logs in the CMS in case any
> students go on a rampage/do anything inappropriate.
>
> vik
>
> On 6/15/07, WEIR Andrew <WEIR at thomascarr.vic.edu.au> wrote:
> > Apologies for the Cross post. (I know we are all busy with reports)
> >
> > The college has decided to implement a content management system as
> > the first step to a full LMS however we have run into an issue where
> > by due to cost it is prohibitively expensive to by licenses for every
> > student to use the system. To over come this the students use the
> > guest access and staff use there own password protected accounts.
> >
> > What I would like to know is if anyone has used? Is using ? Or has
> > heard of any Gateway tool that we could put between this system and
> > the internet to force students to log into using there current School
> > accounts which them lets them see the guest account.
> > This also prevents Google from indexing the CMS.
> >
> > Thanking you in advance
> > Andrew
> >
> >
> >
> > Andrew Weir
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