[Mediawiki-l] URL points to localhost

Thu Apr 6 15:35:28 UTC 2006

On 06/04/06, Dave Burns <tburns at hawaii.edu> wrote:
> On 4/5/06, Rob Church <robchur at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 1. Upgrade MediaWiki as soon as possible
>
> I'm afraid it is out of sync already - should I really upgrade?

You're running server software which is out of date and contains known
vulnerabilities. Whether or not to upgrade is, of course, your choice.

> >  2. Check the value of $wgServer in LocalSettings.php is correct
>
> cat LocalSettings.php|grep wgServer
>
>  ... nothing...
>
>  root at 0[wiki]# cat LocalSettings.php|grep localhost
>  $wgDBserver         = "localhost";
>
> So I changed that to the server's hostname, no change in my problem.

In that case, provide a value for $wgServer; set *that* to the hostname.

Rob Church