Several maintenance scripts wish to use the URL of the server,
but of course this is not available, as we are running a maintenance script:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18274
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18362
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Wiki_family#Fix_for_Maintenance_Scripts
Would the solution be to officially say that if the user intends to use
maintenance scripts, he should have something like
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18274#c6
in LocalSettings.php?
Also maybe maintenance scripts should bomb out instead of guessing
we meant
http://localhost and hoping for the best.