Hehe, me as a beginner dont understand anything anymore.

Maybe someone wants to put a line under all this and tell if it is
definately possible or not.

If so, what do i have to change in which file etc. if i use MW on a shared
webhosting?


ty all :)




On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:

> Daniel Friesen wrote:
> > How the shared host was setup to point two domains at the site wasn't
> even
> > mentioned iirc.
> >
> > Frankly it's even possible that the host themselves is actually taking
> > whatever 'extra domain' you give them and doing a dumb 301 or frame
> > redirect instead of just doing what a ServerAlias would do.
> >
> > Btw, we use HTTP_HOST first not SERVER_NAME.
>
> That's true for 1.18 but not for 1.17
>
> http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/branches/REL1_17/phase3/includes/DefaultSettings.php?view=markup#l54
>
> Prefering SERVER_NAME to HTTP_HOST seems the sensible thing to do, as
> then if you have "UseCanonicalName On" you always get the right server
> name, even in the case of malicious user requests.
>
> The order of WebRequest::detectServer() seems to have been copied from
> Installer::envRequestServer() both edits by Tim (r90105, r90194).
>
> Tim, was there any reason to have HTTP_HOST in preference to SERVER_NAME?
>
> I see there could be problems with a truncated SERVER_NAME variable with
> lighttpd (r83847) but that seems taken care by the function already.
>
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