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Changing the Webmaster Email address

Changing the Webmaster Email address

by Kyle Williams -
Number of replies: 4

I set up our Webwork implementation some time ago (2.13) and rarely have to touch it as instructors look after maintaining the course and student lists. We do get the odd error that kicks back to a user attempting to do something that hasn't met particular requirements:


I just want to be able to change the webmaster address as it's currently sending an email to the wrong individuals. Help!

In reply to Kyle Williams

Re: Changing the Webmaster Email address

by Andras Balogh -
This is in the file /opt/webwork/webwork2/conf/site.conf
$webwork_server_admin_email =
In reply to Andras Balogh

Re: Changing the Webmaster Email address

by Kyle Williams -
That's what I would have thought, except when I check that file there is no setting for $webwork_server_admin_email, so could it be getting this incorrect email address from somewhere else?
In reply to Kyle Williams

Re: Changing the Webmaster Email address

by Andras Balogh -
There is a comment there stating that
# If $webwork_server_admin_email is not defined then the
# ServerAdmin address defined in httpd.conf is used.

On Ubuntu this could be the file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf