[Mediawiki-l] Oddity noticed: www. vs no www. in URL

[Nomad of Norad (David C Hall)]

Rotem Liss wrote:
> Nomad of Norad (David C Hall) wrote:
> 
>> I have just noticed an oddity.  I am using MediaWiki 1.6.5, and had it 
>> bookmarked as joshua-wopr.com/wiki but recently changed the bookmarked 
>> url to www.joshua-wopr.com/wiki and started editting some of my pages.
>>   
> 
> Set $wgServerName to www.joshua-wopr.com and $wgServer to 
> http://www.joshua-wopr.com in LocalSettings.php, and it may be solved.
> 

Hmmmmm... There doesn't seem to be a $wgServerName or a $wgServer in 
LocalSettings.php here.  Am I looking in the right file?

>> I have noticed that when I complete an edit, and it redisplays the 
>> editted page at me, the url is now sans www., and so if I click on 
>> Edit again, or follow a link to another page and select Edit on that 
>> one, I get prompted to log in again!
>>
>> Is this a bug, or a feature?  :-D  Is there a way around it?
>>
>>   
> 
> You can log out in the site with the www, then log in in the site 
> without the www, and I think it will make you logged in in both "sites". 
> Of course, the first solution is better, and I suggest you'll use this 
> one only if the first doesn't work.

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