Using HTTPS with URIs on Mediawiki

https, mediawiki, nginx, uri

Solution

You should try using protocol-relative URIs for $wgServer in your LocalSettings.php. For example, it looks like you have:

$wgServer = "http://wiki.asedmunds.ca";

Try

$wgServer = "//wiki.asedmunds.ca";

instead.

Problem

I have a MediaWiki install running on a Ubuntu 12.04 server using Nginx as the webserver. I have also created a self signed certificate to use with the site so that when I log in, my passwords would not be exposed to everyone on the internet. Recently, I noticed the the site does not properly load the CSS for the site. Upon closer inspection it appears that my browser (firefox) is blocking certain content because it is apparently insecure. It seems to not like that the images on the site are being referenced by uri instead of using https:// but I am not sure how to correct this. Has anyone run into this before?

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