I have a port forwarding rule on my router which forwards port 80 to port
80 on the machine running my wiki.192.168.1.100


192.168.1.100
80
80
TCP


On 12 November 2013 17:33, John <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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