Alex Little

After a long, long delay, I finally had chance to look at the ‘Bad Gateway’ problem that seemed to be stopping the Moodle Online Users Map block working. Whilst in Ethiopia my internet connection there wasn’t good enough to be able to spend time debugging this, but now I’m back on a more reliable connection I’ve been able to have a look.

It turned out to be a relatively simple issue to resolve, basically I wasn’t correctly constructing the call to the geonames website, so it gave the ‘bad gateway’ response.

If you are using (or trying to use) this block then please update to the latest version as soon as possible (go to: Moodle Modules and Plugins).

I’ve not yet had chance to test the changes when the Moodle server is behind a proxy server, I’ll try to get this tested soon. If you are using a proxy server I’d be very interested to know if it’s now working (or not).

[Update 20 Apr 12:30]: have just tested by going through a proxy server and appears to be working fine, but please let me know if it doesn’t work for you.