Brion Vibber wrote:
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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Thanks for the help Brian. I'm curious though...why does only MediaWiki do this, and not HL Stats or Psychostats, or phpMyAdmin (which I have all running on the same box)? And if you're accessing it externally, how do I fix this problem? I don't own the domain that I'm using for my internal network and I just want to use it with a DDNS domain. Every time you try to goto this domain however, it tries to redirect using the server's FQDN. If I change that $wgServer var in LocalSettings.php to my DDNS domain, won't this mess up trying to access the webserver internally? Thank you!
-Trevor