Problems with mediawiki behind nginx / apache (redirects to wrong url)

Server NGINX
1

Hi,

I’m having a little trouble to get Mediawiki working in my nginx setup.

The problem is very probably the configuration of Mediawiki, but the
Help pages about Mediawiki don’t mention nginx.
So I thought I ask here.

My Problem:

  • I setup nginx with https such, that it handles all files, except php
    files, which fill be proxied to apache/mod_php at port 8081

  • I installed a new Mediawiki

  • the installation via the web worked fine and was confirmed
    with a success message

  • then I moved config/LocalSedttings.php to the wiki directory

Now I access https:/servername/wiki2/
and get redirected to http://servername:8081/wiki2/index.php/Main_Page

Below my nginx configuration:

============== nginx configuration ========

server {
listen 443 ssl;
ssl_session_timeout 10m;
ssl_session_cache shared:SSL:10m;

location ~ \.(php)$ {
    include proxy.conf;
    proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:8081;
}

# nginx shall serve all files except the php ones
location / {
    root   /my/doc/root;
    index  index.html index.htm index.php;
}

==================== proxy.conf ==============

proxy_redirect off;

proxy_set_header Host $host;
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

client_max_body_size 10m;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;

proxy_connect_timeout 90;
proxy_send_timeout 90;
proxy_read_timeout 90;

proxy_buffer_size 4k;
proxy_buffers 4 32k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k;
proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

2

I have now a working (perhaps not optimized) solution.

1.) Add following variable to Mediawiki’s LocalSettings.php:
$wgServer = ‘https://servername’;

I found this tip finally at
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/mediawiki-fix-internal-server-host-names-redirect-using-wgserver/

though they specify the entire server url with the path to the wiki,
whereas I specify just the protocol and the server

2,) As Mediawiki urls look like:
https://servername/wiki/index.php/blablabla
I have to be sure, that all these urls get redirected to apache

this I changed my setup to:

location ~ \.(php)$ {
    include proxy.conf;
    proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:8081;
}

location /wiki/index.php {
    include proxy.conf;
    proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:8081;
}

location / {
    root   /home/noma/web/nomassl;
    index  index.html index.htm index.php;
}

Perhaps this post can help somebdoy else. I was searching for quite some
time and was already close to giving up.

On 09/11/2011 08:13 PM, Gelonida N wrote:

Hi,Well I have finally a (non optimized) setting, which is working.

On 09/11/2011 08:13 PM, Gelonida N wrote:

proxy_connect_timeout 90;
proxy_send_timeout 90;
proxy_read_timeout 90;

proxy_buffer_size 4k;
proxy_buffers 4 32k;
proxy_busy_buffers_size 64k;
proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;

Thanks in advance for any pointers.