Ethernet access

roloncito

hello everyone..
I want to use this moodleBox by ethernet. i see the tutotial to change the DNS in my router.

but, Itried this.. but didnt work..

$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/moodle';
in a normal server can run in any ip with that line. but in moodleBox dont..

someone have idea how to work in a ethernet network?.- I dont want to use it on wifi..

thanks to all

Ratna

roloncito Your post is indeed unclear. Let me guess:

You have connected the MoodleBox to the home network through an Ethernet cable.
You have found out its IP address by looking at the router of your home network. Let's say x.x.x.x.
You want to visit the Moodle box from a client in the home network by typing http://x.x.x.x.
If that is what you are doing? MoodleBox will not display its Moodle site. Instread the address in the URL window of the browser will change to http://moodlebox.home and it'll say no such server. Could you confirm?

Nicolas

It's not clear to me what you want to do. could you please elaborate, eg. with a use case? Or is it what is written here: https://moodlebox.net/en/help/how-to-access-the-moodlebox-via-ethernet/?

What (exact) steps have you made to your configuration?

roloncito

Ratna
No. 1. I have a home network through an Ethernet cable and, I want to use through Ethernet. no through WIFI..

Nicolas

roloncito Please answer to this, otherwise we won't be able to help.

What (exact) steps have you made to your configuration?

Ratna

roloncito Your posts are too short for me to understand. Here I assume that you want exactly what I wrote in my prevous post. In that case make $CFG->wwwroot = 'http://x.x.x.x', where x.x.x.x is the (private) IP address of the ethernet interface of your MoodleBox.

Nicolas

By the way:

$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://'.$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].'/moodle';

Such a setting is strongly discouraged for any Moodle server and leads to problems, as all Moodle resources are stored in the database with the full URL of the server. If the IP address changes, which is common on DHCP configuration, this will fail your Moodle sooner or later. Don't do it.

If your Moodle must be responding on multiple IP addresses or domain names, use proper masquerading and DNS. See eg. https://docs.moodle.org/36/en/Masquerading.