On 4/5/06, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com> wrote: I'm afraid it is out of sync already - should I really upgrade? cat LocalSettings.php|grep wgServer ... nothing... root@0[wiki]# cat LocalSettings.php|grep localhost $wgDBserver = "localhost"; So I changed that to the server's hostname, no change in my problem. Thanks for trying!

On 4/6/06, Markus Krötzsch <mak(a)aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote: Not strange at all. $wgServer and $wgDBserver are two different variables with different purposes. $wgServer tells mediawiki what name to use in the host portion of the URLs it generates to link to wiki stuff. $wgDBServer tells mediawiki the name of the host which is running mySql. This may or may not be the same machine which is running the web server, hence the separate variables. If $wgServer is not set in LocalSettings.php, the value for it which is calculated in includes/DefaultSettings.php will be used. It defaults to localhost. This is a general pattern. Configuration variables are set in includes/DefaultSettings.php before the code in LocalSettings.php is executed. This allows the default settings to be overriden in such a way that they are easy to preserve across versions of mediawiki. If you don't find a variable in LocalSettings.php, look for it in includes/DefaultSettings.php, but don't change it there, add the statement to change it in LocalSettings.php. He needs to set $wgServer NOT $wgDBServer. -- Rick DeNatale Visit the Project Mercury Wiki Site http://www.mercuryspacecraft.com/

On 06/04/06, Dave Burns <tburns(a)hawaii.edu> wrote: You're running server software which is out of date and contains known vulnerabilities. Whether or not to upgrade is, of course, your choice. In that case, provide a value for $wgServer; set *that* to the hostname. Rob Church

According to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:$wgServer, $wgServer should also include the "http". Also, try to preview a page with the variable "{{SERVER}}" - in Wikimedia projects, it shows things like "http://meta.wikimedia.org"; what about your wiki? Dave Burns wrote:

As for the preview - go to a page, edit it, write "{{SERVER}}" in the contents, and preview it. By the way, you should also add the variable $wgServerName, which should be without the "http://" (something like "hostname.domain.com"). Dave Burns wrote: