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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Yes, this is defiantly a DNS issue and not
something I would fix within your Moodle site. You need the address of
moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au manually added to your local DNS server.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color=navy><span style='color:navy'>Stephen Bloomer</span></font></st1:PersonName><br>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a
href="mailto:sbloomer@stpeters.vic.edu.au">sbloomer@stpeters.vic.edu.au</a> <br>
Network Manager<br>
St. Peter's College<br>
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Road</span></font></st1:address></st1:Street></ns0:address></ns0:Street><font
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au [mailto:moodle-bounces@edulists.com.au] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>victor rajewski<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, 24 November 2008
10:21 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> The Moodle Users' in Schools
Mailing List<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Moodle] Dynamically
changing wwwroot</span></font><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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 <a
href="http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au">moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au</a> which sends
them to the external IP? On a test machine on the intranet, try adding
"10.x.y.z <a href="http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au">moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>"
to the hosts file, and see if that gets around your 403 errors. <br>
<br>
Also, is there an expection for the moodle server in the proxy settings for the
clients?<br>
<br>
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 <a
href="http://server.tld/moodle">http://server.tld/moodle</a> - 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? <br>
<br>
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 6:36 PM, laurie Savage <<a
href="mailto:sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au">sav@pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi Moodlers and PHP coders,<br>
<br>
I have a problem which I thought I'd solved but, alas, only made worse.<br>
I'd be grateful for your suggestions.<br>
<br>
Here goes:<br>
<br>
Our college's moodle is located on a box 10.x.y.z within our intranet<br>
which is visible to the Internet as <a
href="http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>.
Its<br>
wwwroot in config.php is "<a href="http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au"
target="_blank">http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>" and users use<br>
this address whether they are at school (intranet access) or at home. All<br>
machines on our local network are prefixed with "10." and our border
IP<br>
identifies as 210.a.b.c.<br>
<br>
When users access the site using the intranet and the<br>
<a href="http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>
URL they get a lot of 403 errors and my logs report<br>
a lot of header problems. A bit of research suggested DNS issues.<br>
<br>
I thought I would fix this by having my intRAnet users use an alias<br>
"<a href="http://moodle/" target="_blank">http://moodle/</a>" which
points to 10.x.y.z and modifying config.php to test<br>
whether the user's IP starts with 10. The result was access through the<br>
intRAnet was greatly improved but the site was unusable over the intERnet<br>
- the document root is identified as 10.x.y.z instead of<br>
<a href="http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au" target="_blank">moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>.
Here is the modification:<br>
<br>
$PVGCip = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];<br>
$PVGCparts = explode('.',$PVGCip);<br>
<br>
if ($PVGCparts[0] = 10)<br>
{$CFG->wwwroot = "<a href="http://10.x.y.z" target="_blank">http://10.x.y.z</a>";}<br>
else<br>
{$CFG->wwwroot = "<a href="http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au"
target="_blank">http://moodle.pvgc.vic.edu.au</a>";}<br>
<br>
(The logic in my script's first two lines works - try it in a little<br>
script to display and reformat the contents of $parts[n])<br>
<br>
Laurie<br>
--<br>
Laurie Savage<br>
=<br>
Student Assessment/Reporting & Tracking<br>
Pascoe Vale Girls College<br>
Pascoe Vale, Victoria, AU 9306 2544<br>
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