Trevor Sullivan wrote:
Hello all, I have a problem with MediaWiki running on Apache 2.0 on FreeBSD 5.2.1. Whenever I goto my server's page //server/mediawiki it always forwards me to the server's FQDN (server.pharag.biz/mediawiki/index.php) and will refuse to work otherwise. This only happens with MediaWiki and I can't seem to figure out why only MediaWiki forces the usage of the server's local FQDN. Any ideas? I can provide further information if need be. Thank you!
The HTTP standard requires that redirects use a full URL (including hostname). The hostname reported by your web server is used to construct full URLs.
If your web server is misconfigured and reporting the wrong name, you should probably fix it.
In a pinch, you can set $wgServer explicitly in LocalSettings.php (normally it's autodetected in DefaultSettings.php).
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