Skip to content

How to mitigate campuswide failures for Nextcloud, WordPress, Moodle, Elgg etc? #551

@holta

Description

@holta

The challenge is to get the most urgently needed campuswide LMS-like apps working well enough for campus-like environments (rather than perfectly in all situations, not possible!)

Typically these server apps fail when accessed over the WAN side of an Internet-in-a-Box, but work well over the LAN side or internal-WiFi of an Internet-in-a-Box.

Many tricks exist to overcome these common failures, e.g.:

  • WordPress must be configured from the 1st moment using the correct network — as it locks in all future URL's to that FQDN or IP address, such as http://hogwarts/wordpress or whatever you-as-administrator use during your 1st visit to the site — whereupon http://box/wordpress and others will not work from that point onwards :-(
  • Nextcloud also blocks campuswide access in its own way, but this can sometimes (?) be overcome using:
    • /etc/apache2/sites-available/nextcloud.conf (commenting out Line 9 (that begins with "Require" was not enough!)
    • /opt/nextcloud/config/config.php
    • /opt/nextcloud/config/.htaccess
  • ETC...PLZ HELP ADD TO THIS LIST !

The challenge is to inventory -> document at http://FAQ.IIAB.IO all these annoying-yet-magical tricks so implementers can work with developers to truly deliver!

Metadata

Metadata

Assignees

No one assigned

    Type

    No type

    Projects

    No projects

    Relationships

    None yet

    Development

    No branches or pull requests

    Issue actions