Answers.Body: <p>There are multiple calls to CiviCRM.org in the site codebase, so it's not clear which are triggering errors on your site. These are some of the things you could do ...</p>
  
  <h2>Disable Version Checking</h2>
  
  <p>According to a comment in <a href="https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-17637">CRM-17637</a>, from 4.7 it's possible to disable the daily Version Check scheduled task. See under the menu entry <em>Administer > System Settings > Scheduled Jobs</em>.</p>
  
  <h2>Disable Community Noticeboard messages</h2>
  
  <p>You can disable the connections which update the community noticeboard in <code>civicrm.settings.php</code>.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$civicrm_setting['CiviCRM Preferences']['communityMessagesUrl'] = false;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>(<a href="https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Override+CiviCRM+Settings">Wiki page on overriding CiviCRM settings</a>.)</p>
  
  <h2>Redirect/disable connections to CiviCRM.org</h2>
  
  <p>You could adjust your server configuration to <em>permit</em> connections to CiviCRM.org, OR you could adjust it to redirect those connections to a local address (eg by adding an entry to /etc/hosts which will direct the requests to a local address).</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am running CiviCRM on a standalone network (for testing purposes) and am getting regular errors about not being able to connect to the CiviCRM site.  How can I disable these calls in 4.7?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>
  
Tags: <4.7>
Title: How to Disable Calls to CiviCRM site in 4.7?
ThreadText: # How to Disable Calls to CiviCRM site in 4.7?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-03-23)
  
  I am running CiviCRM on a standalone network (for testing purposes) and am getting regular errors about not being able to connect to the CiviCRM site. How can I disable these calls in 4.7?
  
  Thanks!
  
  **Tags:** 4.7
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-03-25. Score: 6 | Accepted answer
  
  There are multiple calls to CiviCRM.org in the site codebase, so it's not clear which are triggering errors on your site. These are some of the things you could do ...
  
  ## Disable Version Checking
  
  According to a comment in [CRM-17637](https://issues.civicrm.org/jira/browse/CRM-17637), from 4.7 it's possible to disable the daily Version Check scheduled task. See under the menu entry *Administer > System Settings > Scheduled Jobs*.
  
  ## Disable Community Noticeboard messages
  
  You can disable the connections which update the community noticeboard in `civicrm.settings.php`.
  
  ```
  $civicrm_setting['CiviCRM Preferences']['communityMessagesUrl'] = false;
  
  ```
  
  ([Wiki page on overriding CiviCRM settings](https://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Override+CiviCRM+Settings).)
  
  ## Redirect/disable connections to CiviCRM.org
  
  You could adjust your server configuration to *permit* connections to CiviCRM.org, OR you could adjust it to redirect those connections to a local address (eg by adding an entry to /etc/hosts which will direct the requests to a local address).
  
  
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