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 > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] <javascript:;> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
