Hello,

I have recently gone through a few versions of V2.00+ (121011, 121017, 121024 and now 121025) and have no idea where $rooturl has disappeared to. In V1.92+ it was possible to specify the root URL through the flag $rooturl in config.php in the root LimeSurvey installation directory.

Since upgrade to 2.00+ I have been unable to find where to specify a root URL, and as a consequence all surveys are being listed with a root address of 80.194.xx.xx/limesurvey/index.php/survey

Unfortunately, IP-based URLs trigger many email services' spam/phishing filters, so it would be handy to find where it's based.

Poring through limesurvey/application/config/config-defaults.php I find publicurl and homeurl, however publicurl seems to be controlled by Yii::app. Using the "if" conditional to set the root URL doesn't seem to work.

Are there any hints as to where I should be looking?

Yes - I have got the servername variable set appropriately in apache.conf.

Thanks very much,

John

:blink: Hello John,

i have a similar problem here. My Limesurvey is behind a HTTPS enabled apache server and the version 1.92 worked fine with $rooturl set. But with the new version 2.00 this does not work.
I added rooturl to the config.php under application/config/ but this does not help - the survey's work fine, but in the administration i am redirected to http and i have no idea why.
You can configure the rooturl in this way:
Cheers

Reinhard

Fantastic, thank you. I will try that as soon as I can.

The problem is the email invitations, I'm wondering if the problem reported here:

www.limesurvey.org/en/forum/installation...are-at-httplocalhost

Might also be fixed by this approach. I'm sorry, I'm unlikely to be able to test this for a few days but will report back as soon as possible.

Just out of interest, in your global settings screen, what's your setting for "Force HTTPS"?

Hello,

Have just gotten around to trying this; I get the error message displayed:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ''publicurl'' (T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING), expecting ')' in C:\wamp\www\pineapple\application\config\config.php on line 68

Annoyingly, it seems that restoring the file to original doesn't actually fix the problem that it's caused; I get the error message

Page Not Found

The system is unable to find the requested action "login".

This has left me somewhat flummoxed.

Right, so if you change the code to read:

(remove the trailing comma) then the error disappears, but the surveys are still listed as being at 80.194.xxx.xxx/ and the email invitations are still not being listed from my domain.

For further information regarding this query, phpinfo() reveals "hostname:port" to show the domain name & port as expected.

At Limesurvey 2 the $rooturl is checked and registered during installation/update. You should still be able to change the setting (be careful!) at the config.php file.

If anything behaves weird or not as expectd, please open a ticket at our bugtracker.
Thanks!

Hello,

I've got the same problem of "quaint".

You said "You should still be able to change the setting (be careful!) at the config.php file."

How directive i can write in config.php for force new rooturl ?

Thanks very much.

Hello,

I have submitted a bug report for this; I have tried various combinations of 'rooturl' and '$rooturl' with and without trailing slashes; nothing seems to pass through as expected.

As mentioned in the original email, this is a problem as invitations are being emailed out with an IP address; not only does this look less appealing it can also trigger phishing filters.

Thanks

Mazi wrote: At Limesurvey 2 the $rooturl is checked and registered during installation/update. You should still be able to change the setting (be careful!) at the config.php file.

I was wrong with this, sorry.

The correct approach is described here: docs.limesurvey.org/tiki-index.php#Wrong..._reminder_email_link :
Wrong domain in invitation/reminder email link

LimeSurvey automatically tries to determine the URL for the invitation link by looking at the URL by which you logged in to the LimeSurvey administration. However with some server (mis-)configurations this might now work properly and you will have to set this manually.
You can edit /path/to/application/config/config.php to change the default base URL value. Add the baseUrl property to the existing 'components' array:

'components' => array(
...
'request' => array(
'baseUrl' => ' www.example.com ',
),
)

And for https/http : it's in LS setting, not in config.php

Denis

'components' => array(
...
'request' => array(
'baseUrl' => ' www.example.com ',
),
)

Hi Mazi,

I've just added this in to the config.php file; however, when I input the hostname all css dies - see linked screenshot - and, worst of all, it doesn't seem to even resolve the issue.

If I use the hostname and the directory (adding ' surveys.northerndeanery.nhs.uk/pineapple ' then the formatting returns, but the problem still isn't fixed.

If I'm not missing something (in httpd.conf or config.php) then I'm a bit lost as to where to go next.

I can make a contribution to the project from my organisation to get this fixed; it worked just fine with 1.92+ and I'm a little lost as to why I'm having so much trouble with 2.00+

I think you have to set all url in config.php

Look at end of the config-default.php,
And set all url to your url.

Think actually,
In config-default:
$config is set to surveys.northerndeanery.nhs.uk/templates because Yii::app()->baseUrl are surveys.northerndeanery.nhs.uk/ at this time, and is modified only after in config.php.

Denis

I'm sorry, I'm now utterly lost.


if I put the code

into the config.php file, I get no template or css, essentially a text-only LimeSurvey admin screen.

If I change the code to

then everything looks normal, but the surveys are still listed as in both the invite emails and in the survey title page.

If I change the config.php to read

and then modify the config-defaults.php to point to the subdirectory /pineapple/templates as you suggest below, then I get the templates and the CSS and everything looks normal, but the URLs are still pointing to the IP address, rather than surveys.northerndeanery.nhs.uk/ .

Am I still missing something?

quaint wrote: and then modify the config-defaults.php to point to the subdirectory /pineapple/templates as you suggest below, then I get the templates and the CSS and everything looks normal, but the URLs are still pointing to the IP address, rather than surveys.northerndeanery.nhs.uk/ .

What survey URL ? In the mail ?

Maybe some bug reporting to do ?

Both on the invitation emails and on the title screen for surveys, they're listing as IPs.

Do I need to change anything in my apache configuration?

Still puzzled as to why it doesn't work in V2.00 but was functional in 1.92+.

Will submit another bug report.