Last modified: 2011-11-08 23:16:32 UTC
This may be specific to my configuration, but I didn't see it as odd. I have a webserver on an intranet that is configured to use https and a self-signed cert. I followed the whole installation process in IE8 (with security set to medium-high) on Win7-64bit using https for the installer. At the end when it asks me to download the LocalSettings IE pops a warning about "do you really want to download this file" and I clicked the banner and "Download File". A 'File Transfer' dialog starts with the little globe to the folder... but immediately I get a "Unable to download index.php from 7.x.x.x. Unable to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later." Following the whole procedure using HTTP works, however given I am entering account credentials (both my admin account and mysql) I would rather do it under HTTPS. The webserver is apache2 on centos 5.5 with php 5.3.3. When I did it over HTTP I got a windows warning as well about saving the file, but I just clicked through it. It was impossible for me to even get the text of the LocalSettings while in HTTPS. Some of our servers don't even open port 80, just 443.
What MW version?
1.17.0 tarball.
I confirmed that using Firefox8 with the same install, same webserver and https worked to download LocalSettings. It appears that it's IE specific, probably have to set the "security" lower when using HTTPS, so it's blocked in HTTPS but not HTTP.
