Manual:$wgCanonicalServer/de

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Server name with protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) to use for links to the wiki from external locations, such as IRC feeds and email notifications. Must be fully qualified, even if $wgServer is protocol-relative.

You can often ignore this variable. However, if you have set $wgServer to a protocol-relative URL (for example, ) and you would like links to your wiki to use HTTPS, set this variable to the equivalent HTTPS URL (for example,  ).