[Moodle] Dynamically changing wwwroot

[victor rajewski]

I know it's the harder (in the short term) solution, but in the longer it
will make your life easier: fix the DNS issues. I'm guessing the hosts on
the intRAnet are performing a DNS lookup on moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au which
sends them to the external IP? On a test machine on the intranet, try adding
"10.x.y.z moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au" to the hosts file, and see if that gets
around your 403 errors.

Also, is there an expection for the moodle server in the proxy settings for
the clients?

On broader note, why does moodle really need to know what the document root
is? Why can't all links be relative? The only reason I can think of is if
the document root is not '/' - i.e. if moodle is access by
http://server.tld/moodle - in which case all links have to be relative to
/moodle, but the server part of the URL shouldn't really be necessary - am I
missing something here?

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:36 PM, laurie Savage <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi Moodlers and PHP coders,
>
> I have a problem which I thought I'd solved but, alas, only made worse.
> I'd be grateful for your suggestions.
>
> Here goes:
>
> Our college's moodle is located on a box 10.x.y.z within our intranet
> which is visible to the Internet as  http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au. Its
> wwwroot in config.php is "http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au" and users use
> this address whether they are at school (intranet access) or at home. All
> machines on our local network are prefixed with "10." and our border IP
> identifies as 210.a.b.c.
>
> When users access the site using the intranet and the
> moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au URL they get a lot of 403 errors and my logs report
> a lot of header problems. A bit of research suggested DNS issues.
>
> I thought I would fix this by having my intRAnet users use an alias
> "http://moodle/" which points to 10.x.y.z and modifying config.php to test
> whether the user's IP starts with 10. The result was access through the
> intRAnet was greatly improved but the site was unusable over the intERnet
> - the document root is identified as 10.x.y.z instead of
> moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au. Here is the modification:
>
> $PVGCip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
> $PVGCparts = explode('.',$PVGCip);
>
> if ($PVGCparts[0] = 10)
>  {$CFG->wwwroot = "http://10.x.y.z";}
> else
>  {$CFG->wwwroot = "http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au";}
>
> (The logic in my script's first two lines works - try it in a little
> script to display and reformat the contents of $parts[n])
>
> Laurie
> --
> Laurie Savage
> =
> Student Assessment/Reporting & Tracking
> Pascoe Vale Girls College
> Pascoe Vale, Victoria, AU  9306 2544
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