I am trying out WebIssues link text which allows for a client-server issue tracker.
I have setup the MySQL database required.
The problem is that the client program wants a 'Server URL' in order to connect to the database.
Normally on my network I just refer to the servername and/or databasename.
How do I provide a http style path to the MySQL database for the client program to recognize?
My server is called 'John' and the database is called 'webissues'.
Asking for a "server URL" is very odd, but possibly it may want you to use some variation on this form:
protocol://username:[email protected]:port/database
The username:password@ is valid, if little-used, URL syntax that you might see around specifying usernames and passwords for HTTP basic auth or FTP.
You could just feed it an ip address as a URL, for exactly http://192.168.1.101/ Or you could turn the server's name into a URL http://servername/ With out knowing how your network is set up, it's hard to tell exactly how to make it work.
As a side note, you might consider moving this question to serverfault.com. That's where the networking and server folks tend to hang out. We're just programmers here ;)
webissues is a web-based application. they also have a windows front-end that requires the web front-end to be installed. the windows front-end asks for the URL to the web front-end because that is how it access the data.