It's called port forwarding almost all routers should have that

On Tuesday, November 12, 2013, stephen sutcliffe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm just starting out building a Wiki and I'm a little confused. I would
> like to be able to access my Wiki both within my home network and
> externally over the internet. If I set $wgServer in LocalSettings.php  to "
> http://192.168.1.100"; my intranet works as expected. Entering
> "192.168.1.100" resolves to http://192.168.1.100/wiki/Main_Page and
> everything works as expected complete with the vector theme. Obviously this
> poses a problem if I try to access my wiki over the intranet as it can't
> connect to 192.168.1.100.
>
> if I set $wgServer to my registered domain name and try and access the wiki
> externally everything works as expected but if i access the wiki internally
> I have two different issues. If I try to use my domain name this ends up
> pointing to my router admin page so the resolved name i.e with
> "/wiki/Main_Page" appended does not exist on my router . If I use the i.p
> address directly i.e http://192.168.1.100/wiki/Main_Page the web page is
> displayed but I loose the vector theme. i,e it just has very basic
> formatting. Navigating seems to work fine and images are displayed I just
> don't get any nice formatting.
>
> Sorry if this has rambled on but I didn't quite know hot to put it
> eloquently. What configuration do I need to get my wiki to display properly
> when accessed both internally and externally via the internet? I presume if
> I could move my routers admin page away from port 80 this might solve the
> issue but this isn't an option on my router.
>
> Thanks
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