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.