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

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On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 08:09:07AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote:
> specify in your config.ini the required SERVER_* vars

Yeah, I saw those, but what would I set them to?

I need to access the wiki (through my tunnel from home) at
http://localhost:8080/wiki/

Everyone else in the office (on the same local net as the wiki)
accesses the wiki at its real address: http://10.0.0.10/wiki. =20

I can't very well set the SERVER_NAME to localhost, because then anyone
accessing it directly (not through a tunnel) will have links pointing
them to their local computer.

Also, I happen to choose port 8080 for my tunnel, but what if someone
else chooses local port 8000?  or 4566? =20

What I have done in the interim is changed the IP address to a hostname
(wikiserv), so on the same private net as the wiki, people can access
http://wikiserv/wiki.  I can then modify my /etc/hosts file on my local
computer to alias wikserv to localhost.  Further, since I can be root, I
have set the source port of my ssh tunnel to port 80 instead of 8080,
which lets me access the wiki at http://wikiservr/wiki as well.

This is an unsatisfactory solution, because it is
* excessively complex for a non-technical remote employee
* takes over port 80, preventing me from running a local web server.
(the second point is more important in my mind)

I think making the URLs relative instead of absolute within the wiki
would be far preferable. =20

Thoughts?

-ben

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> On 9/13/05, Ben Hartshorne <ph...@gr...> wrote:
> >=20
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > 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 <http://192.168.1.100>
> > public IP 123.45.67.89 <http://123.45.67.89> has internal IP 10.0.0.89<=
http://10.0.0.89>
> >=20
> > ben@me ~$ ssh -L8080:10.0.0.10:80 <http://10.0.0.10:80> 123.45.67.89<ht=
tp://123.45.67.89>
> >=20
> > connect to http://localhost:8080/wiki
> >=20
> > 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
> >=20
> > 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>
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > 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_UR=
L?>" />
> > themes/default/templates/head.tmpl:<base href=3D"<?=3DPHPWIKI_BASE_URL?=
>" />
> > themes/default/templates/redirect.tmpl:<base href=3D"<?=3DPHPWIKI_BASE_=
URL?>"=20
> > />
> >=20
> > 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.
> >=20
> > Do you have any advice on how to streamline connecting to a wiki through
> > a tunnel?
> >=20
> > Thanks,
> >=20
> > -ben
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> > Ben Hartshorne
> > email: be...@ha...
> > http://ben.hartshorne.net
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Ben Hartshorne
email: be...@ha...
http://ben.hartshorne.net