Why Won't Media Wiki Site Return Graphics To Browser and Have Correct Links Beyond 1st Page?

Question

My question is about MediaWiki configuration in the area of returning full URLs back to a front-end Apache server. Here is the description of the problem:

If I type in my MediaWiki's URL directly into my browser -- http://MyWikiServer:4409 -- everything works fine.

However, I want another Apache server -- that serves as a "web router" between the internet and inside our firewall -- to act as an internet front end to the wiki. This works for quite a few of our applications, but two things are happening with the Wiki which I am led to believe has something all or in part with the Wiki's configured server name. However, I am not sure about this fact.

1. The wiki's graphics are not being displayed correctly, and

2. Routes past the first page, which does display in text form, do not work; that is the links cannot be found.

Does any one have an idea of what could be configured incorrectly?

Answer 1

Your "web-router" is more commonly called a Proxy. (just FYI) That beings said, whatever method you used to route the traffic is probably not forming the URLs properly... and so what hits the mediawiki as a URL gets garbled up in one way or another... and mediawiki cannot respond with an appropriate response. I would check the logs to confirm this.