DNS name for new site

One of our network guys stopped by and said your DNS name is all set. Now I can proceed with sharing the site with others for some testing and feedback etc. I typed in the name in my favorite browser and boom, not so fast. The site would not come up. It was still referencing 127.0.0.1 as the host name, even though I was providing a DNS name via the web browser.

After looking in the Apache configuration file, and explicitly changing the line that said

ServerName localhost:80

to

ServerName DNS:80

and saving the file and restarting the Apache service, I was still getting the same error from the browser.

127.0.0.1/moodle not found....

I started looking on our other server that is VHosting multiple sites and saw the alias used for one of the sites, I was about to add an alias statement to the Apache config. file when I stepped back once more and though of Winni the Pooh "think, think, think"....

Then the aha.

Modify the moodle config.php file that contains the line for the web root

$CFG->wwwroot = 'http://localhost/moodle';

Change localhost to the DNS name, save the file and.........bingo. In business.

Moral of the story?

Don't forget to update the root moodle config file when changing the DNS.