373962 - urlbase is not convenient in some cases

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Administration, task)

Description

[Romain Pelissier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: 3.0rc1

As part of the setup of bugzilla, the user have to define the urlbase, which is an utl address where is located bugzilla. In some cases, this variable is not convenient.
- if I have installed bugzilla behing a nat router, the utl base could be http://127.0.0.1/bugs and if an external computer what to have access to it, it will fail as soon as the user want to access another compoenent (search, enter a new bug)
- In quite the same sceanrio, if I am behind a firewall that does NAT but I still want to make this web site available external, it will fail for the same reasons and I have to use a tricky reverse proxy system to make it available externally and internally.

Is there a way to make it works the way I want or maybe change the urlbase system so that it records only where (at which web site) bugzilla is located (like ./bugs) so that bugzilla will be no so attached to a particular ip address or web site?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install bugzilla
2. configure urlbase to a local address like http://127.0.0.1/bugs
3. try to access it outside this ip range (from the web)
Actual Results:  
The main page is displayed to all other calls to the different parts of bugzilla will fail

Expected Results:  
Bugzilla could be accessible from inside and outside a NAT system

Comment 1

[Max Kanat-Alexander]

All right. In that case, you should be using DNS to access your web sites, not IP addresses. It's certainly possible to return different IPs to your internal users than to external users.