[Mediawiki-l] SSH tunnel and mediawiki

[pdc124 at yahoo.co.uk]

sorry if this is a duplicatge - stuff seems to be going into the aether 
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Im connecting to my server at work with a reverse ssh tunnel 
ie from my office 
ssh -R 2096:localhost:80 www.homeserver.com


and then i go home 

I then point a browser at home to http://homeserver:2096 and i get my
default apache page from work . 

the mediawiki is installed into http://workserver/mediawiki and sitting in
my office i can access it.
Ive had to add to my client /etc/hosts
workserver  192.168.0.1 (my homeserver IP address)

When , from home i go to http://homeserver:2096/mediawiki 
I get the 'you must set up your wiki' page, although the wiki is running and
my secretary can access it.

Ive not gone right through the installation through the SSH tunnel in case I
lose everything that is already there.

Whats going on ?
Is this soluble ?