[Phpwiki-talk] base href, ssh tunnels, and URLs

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Hi,

I am connecting to a wiki that exists in a private network through an
ssh tunnel. =20

wiki: http://10.0.0.10/wiki
me: 192.168.1.100
public IP 123.45.67.89 has internal IP 10.0.0.89

ben@me ~$ ssh -L8080:10.0.0.10:80 123.45.67.89

connect to http://localhost:8080/wiki

My problem is that when I load this page with Firefox, it interprets the
"base href" tag on the page to write all the links with their full path,
i.e. http://10.0.0.10/wiki/index.php/PageName

Heavily excerpted HTML:
<html>
<head>
<base href=3D"http://10.0.0.10/wiki/index.php/" />
</head>
<body>
<a href=3D"PageName" class=3D"wiki">PageName</a>
</body>
</html>

So, firefox reads this to mean that when I click on PageName, it takes
me to http://10.0.0.10/wiki/index.php/PageName.  Obviously, this doesn't
work.

I see that base href is specified in the templates:
[ben@punchout wiki]$ grep -ri "base href" *
themes/Crao/templates/head.tmpl:<base href=3D"<?=3DPHPWIKI_BASE_URL?>" />
themes/wikilens/templates/head.tmpl:<base href=3D"<?=3DPHPWIKI_BASE_URL?>" =
/>
themes/default/templates/dialog.tmpl:<base href=3D"<?=3DPHPWIKI_BASE_URL?>"=
 />
themes/default/templates/head.tmpl:<base href=3D"<?=3DPHPWIKI_BASE_URL?>" />
themes/default/templates/redirect.tmpl:<base href=3D"<?=3DPHPWIKI_BASE_URL?=
>" />

I would like to strip out the 'base href', but I'm not sure what other
effects this will have, or if this in even the right way to do it.

Do you have any advice on how to streamline connecting to a wiki through
a tunnel?

Thanks,

-ben

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Ben Hartshorne
email: be...@ha...
http://ben.hartshorne.net