On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, at 14:59, svetlana wrote: > On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, at 14:01, Poopak Alaeifar wrote: > > Hi All sorry my question may be funny, But I need your helps. > > I have installed mediawiki in one of the servers of the company that i work > > obviously it is in localhost of that server, now I want to know the URL I > > should use to access that mediawiki from our internal LAN. > > Would you please help me ? IT IS VERY URGENT FOR ME. > > Cheers Pamela > > with due notes on me doing this a very long time ago and only once > so this reply may contain errors > > Quote: > > > Point your browser to the directory where MediaWiki was extracted and > > follow the link to the setup screen. It should be in the form > > http://[domain]/[directory]/mw-config/index.php. Replace [directory] with > > the path to your extracted MediaWiki folder. If installed on a local > > machine, replace [domain] with localhost. If installed on a remote server, > > replace [domain] with your server's domain name (eg: www.myserver.com). > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Installation_guide > > Here you do not need to use 'localhost' if you'd like other people in the lan > to see the wiki. You need to use the [domain] (aka a local ip such as > 10.1.1.17 or 192.168.1.23). > > Or even better a local domain pointing to such local ip as it's easier to > remember > > you can find your local ip using 'ifconfig' or 'ipconfig' in your os > commandline prompt > > svetlana
it may also work with localhost in the url for install script but when it asks what url is being used to access the wiki, you have to give it a proper non-'localhost' thing which other people can use. this is where links on wiki pages would point. svetlana _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
