Comments on: Enable secure / https SSL login on mediaWiki 1.13.3

By: misan

misan — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:25:01 +0000

Actually found this /etc/apache2/ports.conf file that was included in apache2.conf.

Just had to make it look like this:

#NameVirtualHost *:80
#Listen 80

# SSL name based virtual hosts are not yet supported, therefore no
# NameVirtualHost statement here
Listen 443

By: misan

misan — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:06:01 +0000

Hey, do you know of a way to just make mediawiki secure https only. Right now I have it working with both https and http. But I would like it to only work with https and redirect all users that hit it on port 80 to https on 443.

By: bixit

bixit — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:13:06 +0000

Thanks laser47, I’ve fixed this typo as well.

By: laser47

laser47 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:45:00 +0000

This worked great for me on Ubuntu 8.10 with MediaWiki 1.12.0 , but I ran into a couple of things that needed to be changed:

Secure_Login.php required me to have a

The code block says to create a file called ‘Secure_Login.php’, but the include statement in LocalSettings.php says to include ‘ssl_login.php’

Thanks for the info!

By: bixit

bixit — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:05:09 +0000

OK, I’ve fixed the typo.
Thanks for the tip.