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Mike Sav
Mike Sav

Reputation: 15291

Force WAMP to use IP address rather than localhost

I've just installed WAMP and MediaWiki on a different box (a local machine on my network) however I want to view MediaWiki through my local machine and then add articles, etc. I installed MediaWiki on the remote box and configured it, I then returned to my local machine, typed in the IP address of the MediaWiki on the remote box (hsomething like http://100.100.100.100/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) and noticed that when changing preferences and saving the URL uses localhost and not the IP address (basically after I have posted via a Form Submit). Is this a setting I can change in WAMP or is it a setting I'll have to change in MediaWiki?

You may have noticed I'm a bit of newbi to this kind of thing.

Many thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 7398

Answers (2)

David Mount
David Mount

Reputation: 31

There is a configuration file named localsettings.php in wamp/www/wiki

Open it with notepad and carefully remove the following:

$wgServer           = "http://192.168.0.1"

(where 192.168.0.1 is the host name you used)

Stop and start WAMP and it should work

Upvotes: 3

Mike Sav
Mike Sav

Reputation: 15291

Panic over, in the LocalSettings file for mediaWiki you can set the following $wgServer to your IP address.

Upvotes: 1

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