[Mediawiki-l] How do I make mediawiki localhost only?

[Platonides]

Thomas Anderson wrote:
> I want to be able to use my mediawiki installation through my Iceweasel
> browser but that it accepts connections from localhost only. What is the
> prefered way to configure it so?
> 
> Preferably I would like to move "/mediawiki" out of "/var/www"
> altogether, and instead access it like this: "file:///home/tommy/wiki/".

Configure Apache to listen only on the loopback address (127.0.0.1), 
instead of on all interfaces.
As mediawiki is a (big) server script, it can't be accessed with file:///