Set multiple domains with moodlebox

rzarate

Hello every one.
I tried to add 2 (or more) domains with my moodlebox, but i couldn't make it.

We have a nice domain, moodlebox.home, to enter MOODLE site but if i want to install and use another software it would be nice to enter it with some-other-software.home (for example).

Im using moodlebox nicely and i want to use, at this time, 2 more softwares. Lime Survey and Joomla (or wordpress) so i can create surveys, export data and work with it with my students and a joomla or wordpress or phyton website to intereact with GPIO (at this time get info from a weather station).

So im trying to achieve this:
moodlebox.home (Moodle)
surveys.local (LimeSurvey)
lab.local (Weather info)

How can i add this domains????

Thanks in adnvance for your time and support.

Nicolas

Just add the following line to file /etc/dnsmasq.conf, e.g. by typing sudo nano /etc/dnsmasq.conf in the MoodleBox console:

address=/moodlebox.home/10.0.0.1

Then restart dnsmasq service: sudo systemctl restart dnsmasq.service.

After this, you'll see that any subdomain of moodlebox.home will answer, e.g.

$ host blah.moodlebox.home
blah.moodlebox.home has address 10.0.0.1

You'll have then to configure adequately your various services to answer on the correct subdomain call, by adjusting nginx configuration.

PS. I'll add this feature to the next MoodleBox image. Thanks for the idea.

rzarate

Hello Nicolas.
I saw moodlebox has this feature added but... my linux skills are not the best so. How can i add new subdomains to install other scripts???

Maybe i can write down something to include it on knowledge base ...

Thanks for your help.

Ratna

rzarate What are subdomains? sub1.moodlebox.home, sub2.moodlebox.home,.. or moodlebox.home/sub1, moodlebox.home/sub2,..?

Nicolas

rzarate Subdomain resolving is already enabled (as stated above), and was added in MoodleBox image version 3.6.0.

What you're looking for is to configure Nginx to serve other scripts in subdomains. This is not within the scope of this support forum. You'll find more and better info about this in the Nginx community or on Stackoverflow.

Nicolas

Ratna sub1.moodlebox.home, sub2.moodlebox.home are subdomains; moodlebox.home/sub1, moodlebox.home/sub2 are subfolders.

(Taken from https://www.impactbnd.com/blog/subdomains-vs-subfolders)