[Mediawiki-l] DNS problem?

Mon Mar 21 13:15:07 UTC 2005

Brion Vibber wrote:
> Trevor Sullivan wrote:

>> Hello all, I have a problem with MediaWiki running on Apache 2.0 on
>> FreeBSD 5.2.1. Whenever I goto my server's page //server/mediawiki it
>> always forwards me to the server's FQDN
>> (server.pharag.biz/mediawiki/index.php) and will refuse to work
>> otherwise. This only happens with MediaWiki and I can't seem to figure
>> out why only MediaWiki forces the usage of the server's local FQDN. Any
>> ideas? I can provide further information if need be. Thank you!

> The HTTP standard requires that redirects use a full URL (including
> hostname). The hostname reported by your web server is used to construct
> full URLs.

I got around this on FreeBSD 5.3 by putting the short name in /etc/hosts .

- d.