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Very helpful answers with two different ways to properly configure a website after installing SSL/TLS.

Due to adding SSL my website URL now https

Should I change the SwgServer = "http://example.com" to $wgServer = "https://example.com" ?

As the website is active, would changing it will break the site? Will it cause errors?

Just a related question, if I change the value to $wgServer = "https://www.example.com" would it cause errors or break the site?

After setting-up SSL for you domain, you should change the $wgServer to https, otherwise there will be some errors and you might not be able to use some features such as Extension:AbuseFilter.

Doing such will not break the site.

Thank you so much.

Or use //example.com, this is used for supporting both HTTP and HTTPS with the same caches by using links that work under both protocols. But I do not know what is the difference between this and https.

If you want to use both http and https, then you can set

$wgServer = '//example.com';
$wgCanonicalServer = 'https://example.com';

But, if you really want best security, you should support only HTTPS (make http version redirect to http in apaches, and set HSTS header in apache), in which case you want $wgServer = 'https://example.com'; to tell MediaWiki that only https is supported and http is not supported.

Thank you. Really helpful advice.