Hello, This message summarizes discussions about using private mediawiki and mw-serve. Here are previous discussions on the topic: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01239.html http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01203.html http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib/browse_thread/thread/7edf95ebe70aa781
The problem is the following. When installing a private Mediawiki, newbees (like me) tend to use the "localhost" name as base url for Mediawiki. Mediawiki works fine with that. As said in discussion (http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib/ browse_thread/thread/7edf95ebe70aa781), it is not the case for mw- serve. Mw-serve has been implemented for Pediapress public service; using "localhost" makes no sense for Pediapress developpers. It happens like this: - the Collection extension of Mediawiki send a request to mw-serve in order mw-serve may found the collection. this request contains the url of the generated collection - this url contains "localhost" as normal - mw-server answers something like : "bad base_url: u'http://localhost/ mediawiki" . The origin is that the function "is_good_baseurl" of serve.py module (http://nullege.com/codes/search/mwlib.log.Log.bad) is evaluated to False for any base url starting with "localhost", "192.168" or "127.0" (..??). Nor, this trouble is mentionned in the Mediawiki documentation: using "localhost" use is ok for Mediawiki. Neither it is mentionned in the doc of mw-serve ... It is quite logic on their side to exclude private use of mw-server. Poor newbees like me will continue to spend hours for solving the trouble. Solutions: Solution A (best): install your private Mediawiki on another base url : "mediawikihostname" in place of "localhost". Do not forget to add the following line in your /etc/hosts (under linux): 127.0.0.1 mediawikihostname Solution B (fast): Force the $wgServer variable to "mediawikihostname" in the LocalSettings.php file. Collection extension will use this base url in the requests to mw-serve. Do not forget adding the following line in your /etc/hosts (under linux): 127.0.0.1 mediawikihostname I tested the B solution with success but it is not the best one. I hope this summary will spare your time when you got this trouble ;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mwlib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib?hl=en.
