Dear moodlers,
This may be an easy question for you, but it is the first time that I configure a Moodle site in CentOS from scratch. I would like to highlight that I am an educational technologist, not a network technician, so please don't take things for granted in your answer.
I have installed Apache and MySQL following Moodle documentation.
I have created the database, grant the right permissions to the moodle database user, and I have given the right permissions to the folders:
var/www/html/moodle
var/www/moodledata
always following instructions in documentation.
I have checked that in the config.php of Moodle, all the variables have the right values.
My Moodle site is a virtual machine, through which I access using Putty and WinSCP.
I have given an IP address and a domain name for my moodle site. Both the domain and the IP address are only accessible from the Internet.
If, using the web browser, I want to have access to my moodle site, either typing the domain name (or the IP address, it does not matter), I don't understand if I have to enable a virtual host in the httpd.conf file or in a file created in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ as it is suggested here:
http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Step-by-step_Installation_Guide_for_Ubuntu#If_404_page_is_displayed
At the moment, in the httpd.conf I have enabled the following bit:
# VirtualHost example:
# Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
# The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
# server name.
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin ServerAdmin root@localhost
DocumentRoot /www/html/moodle_LZ
ServerName www.diabetes.cmdn.dundee.ac.uk:80
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>
and
Listen 80
However, if I type in my browser:
www.diabetes.cmdn.dundee.ac.uk:80
I get the following message:
'Server not found
Firefox can't find the server at www.diabetes.cmdn.dundee.ac.uk.'
I don't know if this is because:
a) I have not configured the virtual host appropiately.
or
b) IT has not set up the right firewall permission/DNS configuration or whatsover, so that I can view my Moodle site from the browser.
Any suggestion is very much appreciated because I have been in this situations for weeks now, and the IT Department says that everything is right in their site.
Thank you very much for your help.