[Mediawiki-l] Wiki sitting behind a corporate firewall issues

[Brion Vibber]

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David_S_Green at Dell.com wrote:
> I've noticed that some of the issues effecting my wiki seem to be
> related to the fact that it sits behind a corporate firewall, and the
> wiki won't pull the data from external sites (say for an RSS feed) due
> to the proxy.
> 
> 
> Is there a way for me to tell MediaWiki the proxy settings (port,
> username, password) required for it to then be able to use the proxy?

You can't tell MediaWiki that as MediaWiki doesn't have an RSS import
feature. But you might check PHP's http client configuration (if any)
and/or the particular methods that your custom extensions use to pull data.

Use google to search for documentation? That's what I'd do.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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