[Mediawiki-l] Trying to remove hostname from URLs

[George Stevens]

I reread my original email, and think I was pretty clear that I wanted
to do 

   http://host.domain.local/path/to/app

from the intranet and

   https://host.domain.com/path/to/app

from the Internet.  /path/to/app is an external application, and not
mediawiki, but the link had to be on mediawiki pages.  Sorry if my
wording was confusing.

I'm glad you were able to discover another solution through our exchange
however.  I'll put this in the toolbox for future reference when we get
to the level of using Templates.  Right now, we are working on
customizing the navigation menu.

George B. Stevens


-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jan Steinman
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 2:53 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Trying to remove hostname from URLs

Perhaps I misunderstand, but in your original message, you wanted to 
access:

   http://host.domain.local/path/to/app

from a wiki running on

   http://host.domain.com

I don't see how {{SERVER}} lets you do this. It resolves to the 
basename portion of the wiki URL, not to some arbitrary name.

Or was that just a typo?

But that DOES suggest a fully general approach using identical syntax: 
Templates!

I defined "Template:URL_Bytesmiths" as "http://www.Bytesmiths.com" and 
now I can embed

   [{{URL_Bytesmiths]/Van Veggie Van Gogh]

On 13 Mar 2005, at 11:56, George Stevens wrote:

> Typo update:  {{SERVER}} not {{Server}}
>
> George B. Stevens
> Guidelight Business Solutions
> http://www.GuidelightSolutions.com/
> Cell: 512-698-5558
> Office: 512-401-6144
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of George Stevens
> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 1:49 PM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: RE: [Mediawiki-l] Trying to remove hostname from URLs
>
> Isn't it always the way these things work out?  We found the solution
> soon after posting, and it's a nice clean and simple one too:
>
> 	[{{Server}}/path/to/app | Application Name]
>
> There are _page_environment_variables_ available to wiki pages.  Here 
> is
> a link to the variables page:
>
> 	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable
>
> I think we missed it the several times we tried getting information
> because we were looking for 'environment' or 'page environment' and
the
> TOC in the manual just has 'Variable' as the section name, which seems
> meaningless.  A better name would be something like "Page Environment
> Variables".
>
> Thanks to David and Jan for the replies.
>
> George
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org
> [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces at Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Greaves
> Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2005 1:35 PM
> To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Trying to remove hostname from URLs
>
> George Stevens wrote:
>
>> {Newbie to the list, so please forgive if this has been answered many
>> times before.  We have been unable to track down a solution.}
>>
>>
> Actually you have :)
> And I'm afraid this is it.
>
>> We have looked at using rewrite rules and other methods, but they all
>> seem to be a sledgehammer solution.
>>
>
> See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Rewrite_Rules
>
> There's a lot of complex MW/PHP/Apache interaction so it's the only
> answer I can think of.
>
> David
> PS new here myself so please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
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