All,
I've noticed that some of the issues effecting my wiki seem to be related to the fact that it sits behind a corporate firewall, and the wiki won't pull the data from external sites (say for an RSS feed) due to the proxy.
Is there a way for me to tell MediaWiki the proxy settings (port, username, password) required for it to then be able to use the proxy?
Thanks, Dave Green
Any ideas out there? I've tried about everything I know (heh, which isn't much I admit).
I've even scoured the Web for articles on anything similar.
A bit more of my example below...I can put RSS feeds from our Intranet into the GISWiki/RSS Sample page, so I know the extension is working, but when I try to pull an external RSS feed, I get error messages.
This along with a couple of other issues leads me to believe that these extensions aren't able to get beyond our firewall. The way we normally get through it is by providing the proxy address and port at which point it needs a username and password.
So, my question basically is...Is there are way in MediaWiki to provide this data? Or is there something I need to do at the web server level (Apache)? Either way, does anyone know how to do either of these, if it is possible? Or am I off my rocker here, and it is actually some other issue?
Thanks, Dave
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David_S_Green@Dell.com Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:44 PM To: MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues
All,
I've noticed that some of the issues effecting my wiki seem to be related to the fact that it sits behind a corporate firewall, and the wiki won't pull the data from external sites (say for an RSS feed) due to the proxy.
Is there a way for me to tell MediaWiki the proxy settings (port, username, password) required for it to then be able to use the proxy?
Thanks, Dave Green
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David_S_Green@Dell.com wrote:
I've noticed that some of the issues effecting my wiki seem to be related to the fact that it sits behind a corporate firewall, and the wiki won't pull the data from external sites (say for an RSS feed) due to the proxy.
Is there a way for me to tell MediaWiki the proxy settings (port, username, password) required for it to then be able to use the proxy?
You can't tell MediaWiki that as MediaWiki doesn't have an RSS import feature. But you might check PHP's http client configuration (if any) and/or the particular methods that your custom extensions use to pull data.
Use google to search for documentation? That's what I'd do.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
Been hammering Google a bunch for information.
Maybe if I can change a setting in PHP to look for the proxy server?
I'll keep googling, but if anyone already has experience with this, let me know!
Thanks, Dave
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Brion Vibber Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:00 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues
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David_S_Green@Dell.com wrote:
I've noticed that some of the issues effecting my wiki seem to be related to the fact that it sits behind a corporate firewall, and the wiki won't pull the data from external sites (say for an RSS feed) due to the proxy.
Is there a way for me to tell MediaWiki the proxy settings (port, username, password) required for it to then be able to use the proxy?
You can't tell MediaWiki that as MediaWiki doesn't have an RSS import feature. But you might check PHP's http client configuration (if any) and/or the particular methods that your custom extensions use to pull data.
Use google to search for documentation? That's what I'd do.
- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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What do you mean by "getting the wiki to see an external RSS source"?
Do you mean that external RSS readers can't see your wiki's feed? MediaWiki doesn't read external sources... but if you want an external feed reader (e.g. Google or Yahoo) to see your wiki, then you need an intermediate page that can be seen outside your intranet BUT can also read your intranet.
What we did is create a PUSH script that sends the RSS text to a server that sits in a DMZ. That server then has a URL that external feed readers can use to retrieve that text. The server in the DMZ can't read the RSS directly because of the DMZ - although we could certainly open the firewall to allow it. However, we decided it was far safer to prevent a server in the DMZ from accessing the intranet, although it is open the other way around (intranet servers can access the DMZ server).
- MHart
No, it seems my problem is that our corporate proxy server isn't honoring requests from the RSS extension (or that the extension isn't even trying to use the proxy in the first place) when it tries to pull in an external feed (say a CNN rss feed for example). It is fine with any internal feeds, as it doesn't have to make a proxy request.
My question was whether there was a way that MediaWiki (or the extenstion, etc) to use the proxy server? So is there a way to have the RSS feed go "hey this is an external request, go through the proxy".
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of MHart Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 8:06 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues
What do you mean by "getting the wiki to see an external RSS source"?
Do you mean that external RSS readers can't see your wiki's feed? MediaWiki doesn't read external sources... but if you want an external feed reader (e.g. Google or Yahoo) to see your wiki, then you need an intermediate page that can be seen outside your intranet BUT can also read your intranet.
What we did is create a PUSH script that sends the RSS text to a server that sits in a DMZ. That server then has a URL that external feed readers can use to retrieve that text. The server in the DMZ can't read the RSS directly
because of the DMZ - although we could certainly open the firewall to allow it. However, we decided it was far safer to prevent a server in the DMZ from accessing the intranet, although it is open the other way around (intranet servers can access the DMZ server).
- MHart
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