[Mediawiki-l] odd network problem with installation of mediawiki

[John Fink]

Hey folks,

I've installed Mediawiki a few times now with great success; kudos to the
folks that made the install so painless.

I'm faced with installing Mediawiki on a machine which has a slightly
strange network topology.  Basically, there are two interfaces on the
machine: one answers to machine.net1.example.com and the other to
machine.net2.example.com.  Computers on the net1 local subnet are blocked
from accessing the machine over the net2 interface; same goes for net2
machines trying to get to net1. Apache considers the machine.net1 address
to be canonical, so after Mediawiki installs a machine that tries to reach
the Mediawiki install from net2 has their URL redirected to the canonical
net1 address, and therefore is blocked.

What I want to know is there a reasonably simple way to get Mediawiki to
disregard the canonical address and just use
http://machine.net2.example.com/ when referred to as such?  Is there a
sane and safe way to disable the redirect?

Thanks much for any information,

jf