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.
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.
