Installing Joomla in LAN?
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Installing Joomla in LAN?
At my job, each work section gets to have their own website on our companies LAN. I'm not "in the know" of what kind of server they use here but I know that it doesn't use Linux software. Basically each section has their own site in raw HTML inside of a folder on the server our company has given us permissions to.
My boss wants me to make our section a website and I want to have a better one than all the other sections- so I want to use Joomla. I thought I could use things like the Ravenswood Server and install it that way, but it just runs on my desktop and I have to click in the system tray to access it.
Does anyone have an idea how I can get Joomla working on our LAN? I'm not sure where to start.
My boss wants me to make our section a website and I want to have a better one than all the other sections- so I want to use Joomla. I thought I could use things like the Ravenswood Server and install it that way, but it just runs on my desktop and I have to click in the system tray to access it.
Does anyone have an idea how I can get Joomla working on our LAN? I'm not sure where to start.
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Re: Installing Joomla in LAN?
Hi,
You can install Joomla inside the folder that is given to you on the company's lan server. It doesn't need to be running Linux. Apache, IIS will be fine. Ask your system admin for database details. Best to point him to Joomla's requirements and ask if it fits.
You can also run things like Wamp or Xampp from your (I assume) Windows desktop machine. These are software packages that comprise of Apache, Mysql and PHP, and lets you run Joomla on it easily. Your colleages should be able to access your setup when they type in your lan ip.
You can install Joomla inside the folder that is given to you on the company's lan server. It doesn't need to be running Linux. Apache, IIS will be fine. Ask your system admin for database details. Best to point him to Joomla's requirements and ask if it fits.
You can also run things like Wamp or Xampp from your (I assume) Windows desktop machine. These are software packages that comprise of Apache, Mysql and PHP, and lets you run Joomla on it easily. Your colleages should be able to access your setup when they type in your lan ip.
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Re: Installing Joomla in LAN?
Thanks motd,
What if the server is not using a database, such as mySQL? My desktop machine is never on 24 hrs. Is there a way I can get a database inside of the folder?
What if the server is not using a database, such as mySQL? My desktop machine is never on 24 hrs. Is there a way I can get a database inside of the folder?
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Re: Installing Joomla in LAN?
Hi Rodvold,
Joomla does require a database to run. You may want to check with your administrator whether he can install it for you.
Or, get an unused machine (doesn't matter if it's not the most powerful machine) and run Joomla on it.
That's the best way IMHO.
Joomla does require a database to run. You may want to check with your administrator whether he can install it for you.
Or, get an unused machine (doesn't matter if it's not the most powerful machine) and run Joomla on it.
That's the best way IMHO.
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Re: Installing Joomla in LAN?
I've managed to install Joomla 1.5 ( using instant rails ) over a LAN (at work) but experiencing issues whenever users want to logg in accessing my pc ie: http://roizpc/joomla. It gives a "Cookies needs to be enabled error". I am unable to logg in as admin either.
Oddly though, when I access the page using http://127.0.0.1/joomla/administrator I do not get this error.
Similarly when I logg in using http://127.0.0.1/roizpc I do not get errors either.
I gather that everything works cool when I access it locally (127.0.0.1) but not if it is via LAN.
I have tried this at home between 3 pc's and I do not experience this issue at all. Is this a server/port confliction issue?
Thanks
ps. do not mean to hijack your topic.
Oddly though, when I access the page using http://127.0.0.1/joomla/administrator I do not get this error.
Similarly when I logg in using http://127.0.0.1/roizpc I do not get errors either.
I gather that everything works cool when I access it locally (127.0.0.1) but not if it is via LAN.
I have tried this at home between 3 pc's and I do not experience this issue at all. Is this a server/port confliction issue?
Thanks
ps. do not mean to hijack your topic.
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Re: Installing Joomla in LAN?
I find this error happens when you installed the site using "localhost", or 127.0.0.1
Check your configuration.php and see what it says for mosConfig_live_site.
Check your configuration.php and see what it says for mosConfig_live_site.
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Re: Installing Joomla in LAN?
The underlying error is that there is a cookie domain mismatch, not a port conflict.
You need to set mosConfig_live_site for whatever you want *other* people to be able to access your website as. Joomla uses mosConfig_live_site when determining your cookie domain. The reason you see "Cookies are not enabled" is because Joomla creates a session cookie for "localhost" in the users browser- it then checks to see if it exists (silly, I know, but computers are generally silly) so it asks your browser if it has any cookies for this site. Your co-workers computer looks underneath the ip address they entered, "roizpc/Joomla", and responds "Nope!", and Joomla's default error is "Your cookies aren't enabled then, because I just created a cookie!".
Your computer, unfortunately since it lacks sentience, is not able to search underneath "localhost" and see "Oh, there is a cookie there.."
So, if your ip address on your LAN is 197.123.44.123 (just pulling these out of my ...) , then mosConfig_live_site should be:
$mosConfig_live_site = "http://197.123.44.123";
In your case, it should be:
$mosConfig_live_site = "http://roizpc/joomla"
This is of course, assuming that "roizpc" evaluates to your IP on your LAN, which is something that your network admin would configure.
Good luck!
You need to set mosConfig_live_site for whatever you want *other* people to be able to access your website as. Joomla uses mosConfig_live_site when determining your cookie domain. The reason you see "Cookies are not enabled" is because Joomla creates a session cookie for "localhost" in the users browser- it then checks to see if it exists (silly, I know, but computers are generally silly) so it asks your browser if it has any cookies for this site. Your co-workers computer looks underneath the ip address they entered, "roizpc/Joomla", and responds "Nope!", and Joomla's default error is "Your cookies aren't enabled then, because I just created a cookie!".
Your computer, unfortunately since it lacks sentience, is not able to search underneath "localhost" and see "Oh, there is a cookie there.."
So, if your ip address on your LAN is 197.123.44.123 (just pulling these out of my ...) , then mosConfig_live_site should be:
$mosConfig_live_site = "http://197.123.44.123";
In your case, it should be:
$mosConfig_live_site = "http://roizpc/joomla"
This is of course, assuming that "roizpc" evaluates to your IP on your LAN, which is something that your network admin would configure.
Good luck!
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Re: Installing Joomla in LAN?
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Re: Installing Joomla in LAN?
i get the error when trying to acess http://server/3dreams/
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /3dreams/ on this server.
what does it means..
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /3dreams/ on this server.
what does it means..
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Re: Installing Joomla in LAN?
Dear Riorizla,
could you please share the solution, as i am using on Windows7 & AppServe as WAMP application and i can't access my site within the network. Like accessing on following ip
http://192.168.100.23/abc01
i can access it on local host and on the same computer where installed using IP address but
not been able to access from any other computer within the network.
could you please help me.
many thanks.
om.
could you please share the solution, as i am using on Windows7 & AppServe as WAMP application and i can't access my site within the network. Like accessing on following ip
http://192.168.100.23/abc01
i can access it on local host and on the same computer where installed using IP address but
not been able to access from any other computer within the network.
could you please help me.
many thanks.
om.