Manual:Configuration settings
This is an index of all supported configuration settings based on the MainConfigSchema.php
(or DefaultSettings.php
before MediaWiki 1.39) file.
Never edit MainConfigSchema.php
; add appropriate lines to LocalSettings.php
instead and amend them as appropriate.
If you cannot find a configuration setting here, see if it is defined in DefaultSettings.php
.
The variable should have some documentation there.
Manual:$wgAllowAnonymousMinor
).General Settings
- $wgSitename – The name of the site.
- $wgVersion (deprecated in 1.35) – MediaWiki version number.
Global Objects
- $wgAutoloadLocalClasses – Array mapping class names to filenames, for autoloading.
- $wgConf – Create a site configuration object. Not used for much in a default install.
Server URLs and file paths
- $IP – The full path to the installation directory.
- $wgActionPaths – Paths for various user actions. Used to make URLs prettier.
- $wgAppleTouchIcon – Optional URL to an icon to use when bookmarking to the home screen on Apple handheld devices
- $wgArticlePath – The base URL used to create article links.
- $wgAssumeProxiesUseDefaultProtocolPorts – When the wiki is running behind a proxy and this is set to true, assumes that the proxy exposes the wiki on the standard ports.
- $wgBaseDirectory – Absolute filesystem path of the root directory of the MediaWiki installation.
- $wgCanonicalServer – Canonical URL of the server, to use in IRC feeds, notification emails, etc.
- $wgConfigRegistry – Registry of factory functions to create config objects
- $wgExtensionAssetsPath – URL to extensions directory.
- $wgExtensionDirectory – The file system path to the extensions directory.
- $wgFavicon – The URL of the site favicon.
- $wgFFmpegLocation – Executable name of FFmpeg client.
- $wgFFprobeLocation – Executable name of FFprobe.
- $wgFileCacheDirectory – Directory where the cached pages will be saved when using server-side caching.
- $wgForceHTTPS – Redirect insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS.
- $wgHttpsPort – Port where you have HTTPS running. Supports HTTPS on non-standard ports.
- $wgImgAuthPath – The base path for
img_auth.php
. - $wgLoadScript – The URL path to load.php.
- $wgLocalStylePath – Same as
$wgStylePath
, but shouldn't point to an external domain. - $wgLogoHD (removed in 1.42) – URLs for HD versions of the site logo.
- $wgLogos – The URL path to various wiki logos.
- $wgLogo – The URL of the site logo.
- $wgMainPageIsDomainRoot – Controls if the main page should be served as the domain root.
- $wgReferrerPolicy – Value for the referrer policy meta tag.
- $wgRestPath – The URL path to rest.php.
- $wgScriptPath – The base URL path.
- $wgScript – The URL of index.php.
- $wgServerName – The name of the server without the protocol.
- $wgServer – The base URL of the server.
- $wgStyleDirectory – The file system path to the skins directory.
- $wgStylePath – The URL of the skins directory.
- $wgStyleSheetPath (removed in 1.38) – Do not set
$wgStyleSheetPath
. Use$wgStylePath
instead. - $wgThumbPath – The base path for thumb_handler.php.
- $wgTmpDirectory – The path of the temporary directory.
- $wgUploadBaseUrl – The base URL for uploaded images if shared upload directory isn't to be used
- $wgUploadDirectory – The file system path of the upload directory.
- $wgUploadPath – The path segment of the upload directory.
- $wgUploadStashScalerBaseUrl (deprecated in 1.36) – To enable remote on-demand scaling, set this to the thumbnail base URL.
- $wgUsePathInfo – Whether to use 'pretty' URLs.
See also file/image upload path settings.
See also skins path settings.
Files and file uploads
Uploads have to be specially set up to be secure.
- $wgAllowCopyUploads – Allow uploads from URLs as well as local files.
- $wgAllowJavaUploads (removed in 1.39) – Allow Java archive uploads.
- $wgAttemptFailureEpoch – Bump this to quickly retry thumbnail creation failures.
- $wgCheckFileExtensions – Check if the file extension is allowed on upload.
- $wgCopyUploadAllowOnWikiDomainConfig – If
true
, the value of $wgCopyUploadsDomains will be merged with the contents of MediaWiki:Copyupload-allowed-domains. - $wgCopyUploadProxy – HTTP proxy to use for copy upload requests.
- $wgCopyUploadsDomains – Limit
$wgAllowCopyUploads
to a specific list of domains - $wgCopyUploadsFromSpecialUpload – Add an interface to Special:Upload to enable uploading from URLs
- $wgCopyUploadTimeout – HTTP timeout (in seconds) for upload by URL
- $wgDeletedDirectory – What directory to place deleted uploads in.
- $wgDirectoryMode – Default
chmod
permission value for newly created directories. - $wgDisableUploadScriptChecks – Whether to disable the upload system's checks for HTML/JavaScript.
- $wgEnableAsyncUploads – Enable deferred upload tasks that use the job queue.
- $wgEnableAsyncUploadsByURL (introduced in 1.42) – Enable the async processing of upload by url in Special:Upload.
- $wgEnableUploads – Allow images and other files to be uploaded through the wiki.
- $wgFileBackends – File backend structure configuration.
- $wgFileBlacklist (removed in 1.37) – Files with these extensions will never be allowed as uploads.
- $wgProhibitedFileExtensions – Files with these extensions will never be allowed as uploads.
- $wgFileExtensions – This is the list of preferred extensions for uploading files. Uploading files with extensions not in this list will trigger a warning.
- $wgHashedUploadDirectory – If true, uses the
/a/ab/foo.jpg
directory structure. - $wgIllegalFileChars (deprecated in 1.41) – Override the default list of illegal characters in file names.
- $wgImagePreconnect – Add a preconnect link for browsers to a remote FileRepo host..
- $wgImgAuthDetails – Display reason access to uploaded file was denied to users (img_auth only)
- $wgImgAuthUrlPathMap – Map of relative URL directories to match to internal
mwstore://
base storage paths. - $wgLocalFileRepo – A single repository structure for the local repository.
- $wgLockManagers – Array of configuration arrays for each lock manager.
- $wgMaxUploadSize – Maximum size of uploaded files (in bytes)
- $wgMediaInTargetLanguage – Whether translatable media (currently, only SVG images) should be shown in page's target language
- $wgMinUploadChunkSize – Minimum upload chunk size, in bytes.
- $wgNativeImageLazyLoading – Toggles native image lazy loading, via the "loading" attribute.
- $wgParserTestMediaHandlers – Media handler overrides for parser tests (they don't need to generate actual thumbnails, so a mock will do)
- $wgStrictFileExtensions – Toggle whether users may upload files not covered by
$wgFileExtensions
. - $wgThumbnailEpoch – If rendered thumbnail files are older than this timestamp, they will be re-rendered on demand as if the file didn't already exist.
- $wgUploadDialog – Configuration for Upload dialog and the files uploaded through it.
- $wgUploadMaintenance – To disable file delete/restore temporarily.
- $wgUploadMissingFileUrl – Point wikilinks to missing files ("red file links") to a custom URL.
- $wgUploadNavigationUrl – Point the upload navigation link in the sidebar to a custom URL.
- $wgUploadSizeWarning – Warn if uploaded files are larger than this.
- $wgUploadStashMaxAge – The maximum age of temporary (incomplete) uploaded files.
Shared uploads
These settings are kept for backward compatibility, see $wgForeignFileRepos for the new setting, or $wgUseInstantCommons if you only need read access to images on Commons.
- $wgCacheSharedUploads – Cache shared metadata in memcached.
- $wgForeignFileRepos – An array of repository structure for foreign repositories.
- $wgForeignUploadTargets – Configuration for foreign upload targets for the Upload dialog .
- $wgHashedSharedUploadDirectory – Whether to hash the shared upload directory.
- $wgRepositoryBaseUrl – Base URL for a repository wiki.
- $wgSharedUploadDBname – DB name with metadata about shared directory.
- $wgSharedUploadDBprefix – DB prefix for shared image uploads
- $wgSharedUploadDirectory – Path on the file system where shared uploads can be found.
- $wgSharedUploadPath – Full path to the web server where shared uploads can be found.
- $wgUseSharedUploads – Whether to look in a shared repository when a file is not found locally
- $wgFetchCommonsDescriptions – Whether to fetch commons image description pages and display them on the local wiki.
MIME types
- $wgMimeDetectorCommand – Sets an external MIME detector program.
- $wgMimeInfoFile – Sets the MIME type info file to be used by MimeAnalyzer.php .
- $wgMimeTypeFile – Sets the MIME type definition file to be used by MimeAnalyzer.php .
- $wgTrivialMimeDetection – Switch for trivial MIME detection.
- $wgVerifyMimeType – Determines if the MIME type of uploaded files should be checked.
- $wgVerifyMimeTypeIE (removed in 1.40) – Determines whether extra checks for Internet Explorer type detection should be applied.
- $wgMimeTypeBlacklist (removed in 1.37) – MIME types to disallow if $wgVerifyMimeType is enabled.
- $wgMimeTypeExclusions – MIME types to disallow if $wgVerifyMimeType is enabled.
- $wgXMLMimeTypes – An array of XML MIME types we can detect via MimeMagic
See also: Manual:MIME type detection
Images
- $wgAllowImageMoving (removed in 1.36) – Enable file renaming.
- $wgCustomConvertCommand – Use another resizing converter, e.g. GraphicMagick.
- $wgEnableAutoRotation – Whether to enable image auto-rotation based on EXIF information
- $wgExiftool – Path to exiftool binary. Used for lossless ICC profile swapping.
- $wgExiv2Command – Path to the exiv2 executable.
- $wgGalleryOptions – Default settings for the
<gallery>
tag. - $wgIgnoreImageErrors – If true, inline scaled images will still produce
<img>
tags ready for output instead of showing an error message. - $wgImageLimits – A list of user-selectable limits for the image thumbnail size on image description pages.
- $wgJpegQuality – When scaling a JPEG thumbnail, this is the quality we request from the backend.
- $wgJpegTran – Path to jpegtran, for lossless JPEG rotation.
- $wgMaxImageArea – Don't thumbnail an image if it will use too much working memory.
- $wgMediaHandlers – Plugins for media file type handling.
- parameters for upload path
- $wgTrustedMediaFormats – List of trusted media-types and MIME types.
See also: Manual:Configuring file uploads
DjVu
- $wgDjvuDump – Path to the djvudump executable.
- $wgDjvuOutputExtension – File extension for the DjVu post processor output.
- $wgDjvuPostProcessor – Path of the DjVu post-processor.
- $wgDjvuRenderer – Path of the ddjvu DjVu renderer.
- $wgDjvuToXML (removed in 1.37) – Path of the djvutoxml executable.
- $wgDjvuTxt – Path of the djvutxt DjVu text extraction utility.
- $wgDjvuUseBoxedCommand (introduced in 1.42) – Whether to use BoxedCommand or not.
- $wgShellboxShell (introduced in 1.42) – The POSIX-compatible shell to use when running scripts.
EXIF
- $wgShowEXIF – Show EXIF data at the end of file description pages.
- $wgUpdateCompatibleMetadata – Whether to automatically update the
img_metadata
field if it is outdated but compatible with the current version.
ImageMagick
- $wgImageMagickConvertCommand – The command used to invoke ImageMagick.
- $wgImageMagickTempDir – Temporary directory used for ImageMagick.
- $wgMaxInterlacingAreas – Array of max pixel areas for interlacing per MIME type.
- $wgSharpenParameter – Sharpening parameter to ImageMagick.
- $wgSharpenReductionThreshold – Reduction in linear dimensions below which sharpening will be enabled.
- $wgUseImageMagick – Set to true to use ImageMagick for image resizing.
- $wgUseTinyRGBForJPGThumbnails – Swaps JPGs that use sRGB ICC profile with TinyRGB profile
SVG
- $wgAllowTitlesInSVG (removed in 1.35) – Allow
<title>
tag in SVG files. - $wgSVGConverter – A key from
$wgSVGConverters
to use as converter. - $wgSVGConverterPath – Path to the directory of the SVG converter being used.
- $wgSVGConverters – List of paths to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) converters.
- $wgSVGMaxSize – Don't scale a SVG larger than this unless its native size is larger.
- $wgSVGMetadataCutoff – Don't read SVG metadata beyond this point.
- $wgSVGNativeRendering (introduced in 1.41) – Whether native rendering by the browser agent is allowed.
- $wgSVGNativeRenderingSizeLimit (introduced in 1.41) – Filesize limit (in bytes) for allowing SVGs to render natively by the browser agent.
Thumbnail settings
- $wgUseImageResize – Whether to enable dynamic server-side image resizing (thumbnailing)
- $wgGenerateThumbnailOnParse – Allow thumbnail rendering on page view.
- $wgMaxAnimatedGifArea – Force thumbnailing of animated GIFs above this size to a single frame instead of an animated thumbnail.
- $wgSharedThumbnailScriptPath – Same as
$wgThumbnailScriptPath
, but for shared uploads. - $wgShowArchiveThumbnails – Whether to show thumbnails for old images on the image description page.
- $wgTiffThumbnailType – The format and MIME type to convert TIFF images to.
- $wgThumbnailNamespaces (introduced in 1.40) – Defines what namespaces thumbnails will be displayed for in Special:Search.
- $wgThumbnailScriptPath – Path to thumb.php , if you want thumbnail generation on the fly.
- $wgThumbUpright – Scaling factor applied to width of images when parameter 'upright' is used.
- $wgThumbLimits – List of image thumbnail sizes users can pick from.
- $wgResponsiveImages – Whether or not to output high-resolution images for high-DPI displays
- $wgThumbnailBuckets – List of intermediary thumbnail sizes to use to speed up thumbnail rendering.
- $wgThumbnailMinimumBucketDistance – Minimal distance between intermediary thumbnail size and target thumbnail size.
- $wgJpegPixelFormat – Sets YUV chroma subsampling mode for JPEG thumbnails
- $wgUploadThumbnailRenderHttpCustomHost – When using the "http" $wgUploadThumbnailRenderMethod, lets one specify a custom Host HTTP header.
- $wgUploadThumbnailRenderHttpCustomDomain – When using the "http" $wgUploadThumbnailRenderMethod, lets one specify a custom domain to send the HTTP request to.
- $wgUploadThumbnailRenderMap – An array of thumbnail widths to be rendered at upload time.
- $wgUploadThumbnailRenderMethod – The method through which the thumbnails will be prerendered for the entries in $wgUploadThumbnailRenderMap.
Antivirus
- $wgAntivirus – Internal name of virus scanner.
- $wgAntivirusRequired – Determines if a failed virus scan will cause the file to be rejected.
- $wgAntivirusSetup – Configuration for different virus scanners.
Email settings
See also User Access: $wgEmailConfirmToEdit
- $wgAdditionalMailParams – Additional email parameters, will be passed as the last argument to
mail()
PHP function call. - $wgAllowHTMLEmail – Set to true to enable HTML emails.
- $wgEmailAuthentication – Set to true to enable email authentication (confirmation) for this wiki. Except for password reminder emails, email functions only work for authenticated email addresses.
- $wgEmergencyContact – Site admin email address
- $wgEnableEmail – Set to true to enable basic email features.
- $wgEnableSpecialMute – Set to
true
to enable the Special Mute page. - $wgEnableUserEmailBlacklist (removed in 1.37) – Set to
true
to enable user-to-user email blacklist. - $wgEnableUserEmailMuteList – Set to
true
to enable user-to-user email mutelist. - $wgEnableUserEmail – Set to true to enable user-to-user email.
- $wgNewPasswordExpiry – The time, in seconds, after which an emailed temporary password expires.
- $wgNoReplyAddress – Reply-to address for automatically generated emails.
- $wgPasswordExpirationDays – The number of days that a user's password is good for.
- $wgPasswordExpireGrace – The number of seconds after a user's password expires during which they can log in without a password change.
- $wgPasswordReminderResendTime – Minimum time, in hours, which must elapse between password reminder emails.
- $wgPasswordSender – Password reminder email address.
- $wgSMTP – For using a direct (authenticated) SMTP server connection.
- $wgUserEmailConfirmationTokenExpiry – The time, in seconds, after which a email address confirmation token expires.
- $wgUserEmailUseReplyTo – Set to
true
to put the sending user's email in a Reply-To header instead of From.
Email notification (Enotif) settings
- Actual notifications for each user are defined in the options. You can change defaults with $wgDefaultUserOptions .
- $wgEnotifFromEditor – Whether to make email notifications appear to come from the user who makes the edit
- $wgEnotifImpersonal – Send a generic mail instead of a personalised mail for each user.
- $wgEnotifMaxRecips – Maximum number of users to mail at once when using impersonal mail.
- $wgEnotifMinorEdits – Set to true to allow sending email notification also for edits marked as minor edits
- $wgEnotifRevealEditorAddress – Set to true to insert the page editor's email address into the email notifications Reply-To address
- $wgEnotifUseRealName – Use real name instead of username in email "from" field.
- $wgEnotifUserTalk – Enable email notifications for edits on users' talk pages.
- $wgEnotifWatchlist – Set to true to allow the email notification for watched pages
- $wgUseEnotif – Overall "use Enotif" setting
- $wgUsersNotifiedOnAllChanges – Array of usernames who will be sent a notification email for every change which occurs on a wiki.
Database settings
- $wgCommentTempTableSchemaMigrationStage (introduced in 1.40) (removed in 1.41) – Comment temp tables schema migration stage.
- $wgDataCenterUpdateStickTTL – After a state-changing request is done by a client, this determines how many seconds that client should keep using the master datacenter.
- $wgDBadminpassword – Password for $wgDBadminuser.
- $wgDBadminuser – Username of database administrator.
- $wgDBcompress – Whether to use compression in DB connection.
- $wgDBDefaultGroup – Default group to use when getting database connections. For use by maintenance scripts.
- $wgDBerrorLogTZ – Timezone to use in the error log.
- $wgDBerrorLog – File to log database errors to.
- $wgDBmwschema – Schema that stores the MediaWiki tables in.
- $wgDBname – Name of the database.
- $wgDBpassword – The password for
$wgDBuser
. - $wgDBprefix – Table name prefix.
- $wgDBserver – Host name or IP address of database server.
- $wgDBssl – Whether to use SSL in DB connection.
- $wgDBStrictWarnings (introduced in 1.42) – Check for warnings after DB queries and throw an exception if an unacceptable warning is detected.
- $wgDBtype – Type of database.
- $wgDBuser – Database username.
- $wgDBWindowsAuthentication (removed in 1.35) – Use Integrated Windows Authentication rather than
$wgDBuser
/$wgDBpassword
combo. - $wgExternalLinksSchemaMigrationStage (introduced in 1.40) (removed in 1.41) – externallinks table schema migration stage.
- $wgExternalLinksDomainGaps (introduced in 1.41) – Gaps in the
externallinks
table for certain domains. - $wgLocalDatabases – Other wikis on this site, can be administered from a single developer account.
- $wgMaxExecutionTimeForExpensiveQueries – Max execution time for queries of several expensive special pages such as RecentChanges in milliseconds.
- $wgMultiContentRevisionSchemaMigrationStage (removed in 1.39) – RevisionStore table schema migration stage (content, slots, content_models & slot_roles tables).
- $wgPageLinksSchemaMigrationStage (introduced in 1.41) – The pagelinks table schema migration stage, for normalising pl_namespace and pl_title fields.
- $wgSearchTypeAlternatives – Alternative search types.
- $wgSearchType – Type of search used for the wiki.
- $wgTemplateLinksSchemaMigrationStage (removed in 1.43) – templatelinks table schema migration stage, for normalizing tl_namespace and tl_title fields.
- $wgVirtualDomainsMapping (introduced in 1.41) – Mapping of virtual database domains to actual databases.
LoadBalancer settings
- $wgDBservers – Settings for the database load balancer (database servers and load ratios).
- $wgLBFactoryConf – Configuration for the ILBFactory service
- $wgMasterWaitTimeout (deprecated in 1.24) – How long to wait for a slave to catch up to the master.
- $wgSlaveLagCritical (removed in 1.36) – If lag is higher than this value, show a more obvious warning than
$wgSlaveLagWarning
. - $wgSlaveLagWarning (removed in 1.36) – If lag is higher than this value, show a warning in some special pages (like watchlist).
- $wgDatabaseReplicaLagCritical – If lag is higher than this value, show a more obvious warning than
$wgDatabaseReplicaLagWarning
. - $wgDatabaseReplicaLagWarning – If lag is higher than this value, show a warning in some special pages (like watchlist).
MySQL-specific
- $wgDBTableOptions – MySQL table options to use during installation or update.
- $wgSQLMode – Value for the MySQL
sql_mode
parameter
PostgreSQL-specific
- $wgDBport – Database port. Only used by PostgreSQL.
SQLite-specific
- $wgSQLiteDataDir – To override default SQLite data directory.
Shared DB settings
- $wgSharedDB – The name of the shared database.
- $wgSharedPrefix – Table prefix to use on the shared database tables.
- $wgSharedTables – List of database tables (without prefixes) to share when
$wgSharedDB
is enabled. - $wgSharedSchema – The table schema for the shared database
Extension fields
- $wgExtPGNewFields (removed in 1.36) – Extension defined fields to be added to existing tables
- $wgExtNewTables (removed in 1.36) – Extension Defined tables to be added on schema change
- $wgExtNewFields (removed in 1.36) – Extension defined fields to be added to existing tables
- $wgExtNewIndexes (removed in 1.36) – Extension defined indexes to be added to existing tables
- $wgExtPGAlteredFields (removed in 1.36) – Extension defined columns to be altered in tables
- $wgExtModifiedFields (removed in 1.36) – Extension defined fields to change existing tables
Content handlers and storage
- $wgCompressRevisions – Compress new page revisions if possible
- $wgContentHandlers – Mapping of content type handlers
- $wgContentHandlerTextFallback (removed in 1.42) – How to react if a plain text version of a non-text Content object is requested using
ContentHandler::getContentText()
- $wgDefaultExternalStore – Default external store for new revisions.
- $wgDiffEngine – Specify the difference engine to use.
- $wgEnableRemoteBagOStuffTests – If this is set to
true
, phpunit will run integration tests against remote caches defined in $wgObjectCaches . - $wgExternalDiffEngine – Name of the external diff engine to use.
- $wgExternalServers – Shortcut for setting
$wgLBFactoryConf["externalClusters"]
. - $wgExternalStores – List of enabled ExternalStore protocols.
- $wgNamespaceContentModels – Content types defined for a given namespace
- $wgPageLanguageUseDB – Allows to change the page language for MediaWiki pages
- $wgRevisionCacheExpiry – Cache extracted revision text in MemCached.
- $wgTextModelsToParse – Determines which types of text are parsed as wikitext.
- $wgWikidiff2Options (introduced in 1.41) – Options for wikidiff2
Performance hacks and limits
- $wgAllowSchemaUpdates – Allow database schema updates to be executed with update.php script.
- $wgAllowSlowParserFunctions – Allow slow parser functions.
- $wgCriticalSectionTimeLimit – The maximum time critical sections are allowed to stay open.
- $wgDisableQueryPages – Disable all query pages if miser mode is on, not just some.
- $wgForceDeferredUpdatesPreSend – Force deferred updates to be run before sending a response to the client, instead of attempting to run them after sending the response.
- $wgLinkHolderBatchSize – LinkHolderArray batch size.
- $wgMaxArticleSize – Maximum page size in kibibytes.
- $wgMaximumMovedPages – Maximum number of pages to move at once when moving subpages with a page.
- $wgMaxJobDBWriteDuration – Max time (in seconds) a job-generated transaction can spend in writes.
- $wgMaxUserDBWriteDuration – Max time (in seconds) a user-generated transaction can spend in writes.
- $wgMemoryLimit – The minimum amount of memory that MediaWiki "needs"; MediaWiki will try to raise PHP's memory limit if it's below this amount.
- $wgMiserMode – Enable/disable database-intensive features
- $wgMultiShardSiteStats – Whether
site_stats
table should have multiple rows. - $wgPoolCounterConf – Configuration for processing pool control.
- $wgPoolCountClientConf (introduced in 1.40) – Configuration array for the PoolCounter client.
- $wgQueryCacheLimit – Number of rows to cache in 'querycache' table when miser mode is on.
- $wgQueryPages – List of Special pages that inherit from QueryPage, that should also be taken in account by the updateSpecialPages.php maintenance script.
- $wgRequestTimeLimit – Set a limit on server request wall clock time.
- $wgTransactionalTimeLimit – Throttle for timing out transactional POST requests
- $wgWantedPagesThreshold – Minimum number of pages that must link to a page before it will appear on Special:Wantedpages.
Cache
- $wgCacheDirectory – Directory for per-wiki long-life cache files in the local filesystem.
- $wgCacheEpoch – Set this to current time to invalidate all prior cached pages.
- $wgCachePages – Allow client-side caching of pages
- $wgChronologyProtectorStash – The object store type of the ChronologyProtector position store.
- $wgChronologyProtectorSecret (introduced in 1.41) – Secret string for HMAC hashing in ChronologyProtector (optional)
- $wgExtensionInfoMTime – Time to invalidate cache of extensions loaded by the extension registration system.
- $wgFooterLinkCacheExpiry (removed in 1.39) – Expiry time for the footer link cache, in seconds, or 0 if disabled.
- $wgGitInfoCacheDirectory – Directory where GitInfo will look for pre-computed cache files.
- $wgInvalidateCacheOnLocalSettingsChange – Setting this to true will invalidate all cached pages whenever "LocalSettings.php" is changed
- $wgLanguageConverterCacheType – The cache type for storing language conversion tables.
- $wgMainCacheType – Object cache setting
- $wgMainStash – Replicated object cache setting
- $wgMicroStashType No summary available
- $wgObjectCaches – Advanced object cache configuration.
- $wgParserCacheFilterConfig (introduced in 1.42) – Per-namespace configuration for the ParserCache filter.
- $wgParserCacheUseJson (removed in 1.39) – Enable JSON serialization for ParserCache.
- $wgParsoidCacheConfig – Configuration for the caching related to parsoid output. The configuration contains the following keys:
- $wgPHPSessionHandling – Whether to use PHP session handling (
$_SESSION
andsession_*()
functions) - $wgSessionPbkdf2Iterations – Number of internal PBKDF2 iterations to use when deriving session secrets.
- $wgStatsCacheType (removed in 1.42) – The object cache type for stats storage.
- $wgSuspiciousIpExpiry – Time in seconds to remember IPs for, for the purposes of logging IP changes within the same session.
- $wgUseGzip – Use GZip to store cached pages.
- See: Interwiki for Interwiki cache settings.
File Cache
Settings for Server side file caching.
- $wgFileCacheDepth – Depth of subdirectory hierarchy under
$wgFileCacheDirectory
. - $wgUseFileCache – Create static HTML pages for unregistered viewers to reduce database traffic.
Message Cache
- $wgAdaptiveMessageCache – Keep track which messages are requested and load only most used messages.
- $wgLocalisationCacheConf – Localisation cache configuration.
- $wgMessageCacheType – Message cache setting
- $wgUseLocalMessageCache – Make a local copy of the message cache, in addition to memcached.
Sidebar Cache
- $wgEnableSidebarCache – If true, cache the sidebar navigation links.
- $wgSidebarCacheExpiry – Expiry time for the sidebar cache, in seconds.
Parser Cache
- $wgOldRevisionParserCacheExpireTime – The expiry time for the parser cache for old revisions, in seconds.
- $wgRenderHashAppend – Append a configured value to the parser cache and the sitenotice cache keys.
- $wgParserCacheExpireTime – Expiration time (in seconds) of cached parser information
- $wgParserCacheType – Parser cache setting
- $wgUseContentMediaStyles (introduced in 1.41) (deprecated in 1.41) – Temporary flag to stop shipping the styles for the legacy media HTML structure that has been replaced when $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM is
false
.
Memcached settings
Settings for configuring the Memcached memory-based object store (if you are using it) docs/memcached.md has more details.
- $wgMemCachedDebug – Will be set to false in Setup.php, if the server isn't working.
- $wgMemCachedPersistent – Whether to use persistent connections to Memcached servers.
- $wgMemCachedServers – Memcached servers
- $wgMemCachedTimeout – Server connection timeout in microseconds.
- $wgObjectCacheSessionExpiry – Expiry time to use for session storage in seconds.
- $wgSessionCacheType – The cache type for storing session data.
WAN cache
- $wgMainWANCache (removed in 1.40) – Main wide area network cache configuration.
- $wgWANObjectCaches (removed in 1.40) – Advanced Wide-Area-Network cache configuration.
- $wgWANObjectCache (introduced in 1.40) – Extra parameters to the WANObjectCache constructor.
HTTP proxy (CDN) settings
These settings configure MediaWiki when using a caching HTTP proxy server. They apply to caching using Varnish as well as Squid.
- $wgCdnMatchParameterOrder – Indicates if should take query parameters order on incoming requests into account for CDN caching
- $wgCdnMaxageLagged – Cache timeout for the CDN when DB replica lag is high
- $wgCdnMaxageStale – Cache timeout in seconds when delivering a stale ParserCache response due to PoolCounter contention.
- $wgCdnMaxageSubstitute – Cache timeout for the CDN when a response is known to be wrong or incomplete (due to load)
- $wgCdnMaxAge – Cache TTL for the CDN sent as s-maxage (without ESI) or Surrogate-Control (with ESI).
- $wgCdnReboundPurgeDelay – Secondary delayed purges of URLs
- $wgCdnServersNoPurge – Same as
$wgCdnServers
, except no HTTP purges will be sent and CIDR ranges are accepted - $wgCdnServers – An array of individual proxy servers to help MediaWiki detect if the request has been proxied.
But also to send back to the proxy PURGE commands on changes. - $wgForcedRawSMaxage – Default maximum age (in seconds) for raw CSS/JavaScript accesses.
- $wgInternalServer – Internal server name as known to Squid, if different than
$wgServer
. - $wgLoggedOutMaxAge (removed in 1.38) – Cache TTL for the user agent sent as max-age, for logged out users.
- $wgSquidMaxage (removed in 1.35) – Cache timeout for the squid.
- $wgSquidPurgeUseHostHeader (removed in 1.42) – Whether to use a Host header in purge requests sent to the proxy servers configured in $wgSquidServers.
- $wgSquidServersNoPurge (removed in 1.35) – Same as
$wgSquidServers
, except that MW has no methods to send HTTP PURGE to an origin part of the configured ranges - $wgSquidServers (removed in 1.35) – An array of individual proxy servers to help MediaWiki detect if the request has been proxied.
But also to send back to the proxy PURGE commands on changes. - $wgUseCdn – Enable/disable page view caching.
- $wgUseESI (deprecated in 1.33) – If you run Squid3 with ESI support, enable this.
- $wgUsePrivateIPs – Whether private X-Forwarded-For IPs should be accepted
- $wgUseSquid (removed in 1.35) – Enable/disable Squid.
- $wgVaryOnXFP – Whether to add
X-Forwarded-Proto
to theVary
header for API requests and RSS/Atom feeds.
HTCP multicast purging
- $wgHTCPMulticastTTL – HTCP multicast purging
- $wgHTCPRouting – Routing configuration for HTCP multicast purging.
Language, regional and character encoding settings
- $wgAllUnicodeFixes – Whether to always convert certain Unicode sequences to modern ones regardless of the content language.
- $wgDefaultLanguageVariant – Default language variant.
- $wgDisabledVariants – Disabled variants for language variant conversion.
- $wgDisableLangConversion – Whether to enable language variant conversion.
- $wgDisableTitleConversion – Whether to enable language variant conversion for links.
- $wgDummyLanguageCodes – List of language codes that have been renamed to new (correct) codes, or don't correspond to an actual interface language.
- $wgExtraInterlanguageLinkPrefixes – Array of interwiki prefixes to be treated as language links.
- $wgExtraLanguageCodes – List of mappings from one language code to another
- $wgExtraLanguageNames – List of language names or overrides for default names in Names.php.
- $wgFixArabicUnicode (removed in 1.35) – Set this to true to clean up archaic Unicode sequences in Arabic text.
- $wgFixMalayalamUnicode (removed in 1.35) – Set this to true to clean up archaic Unicode sequences in Malayalam text.
- $wgForceUIMsgAsContentMsg – Array of UI messages that should be treated as content messages.
- $wgGrammarForms – Used for
{{GRAMMAR:}}
parser function. - $wgHideInterlanguageLinks – Hide interlanguage links from the sidebar.
- $wgInterlanguageLinkCodeMap – Map of interlanguage link codes to language codes to override what is shown as the language name when the interwiki code does not match it exactly.
- $wgInterwikiMagic – Treat language links as magic connectors, not inline links.
- $wgLangObjCacheSize (removed in 1.37) – Language cache size, or really how many languages can we handle simultaneously without degrading to crawl speed.
- $wgLanguageCode – Site language code.
- $wgLegacyEncoding – Set this to the character set, which you used before you updated to MediaWiki 1.5 (eg 'ISO-8859-1'). MediaWiki will then perform a temporary character set conversion when loading old revisions, which are not marked with "utf-8" flag (revisions created with MediaWiki 1.4 and earlier).
- $wgLegacySchemaConversion (removed in 1.39) – Option to speed up the conversion step for large sites when migrating the schema from 1.4 to 1.5
- $wgLoginLanguageSelector – Show a bar of language selection links in the user login and user registration forms.
- $wgMaxMsgCacheEntrySize – Maximum entry size in the message cache, in bytes.
- $wgOverrideUcfirstCharacters – List of Unicode characters for which capitalization is overridden in Language::ucfirst.
- $wgRawHtmlMessages – List of messages which might contain raw HTML.
- $wgUseDatabaseMessages – Translation using MediaWiki: namespace.
- $wgUsePigLatinVariant – Whether to enable the pig latin variant of English (en-x-piglatin), used to ease variant development work.
- $wgUseXssLanguage (introduced in 1.41) – Whether to enable the x-xss language code, used to make checking for XSS issues more convenient.
- $wgVariantArticlePath – Used for links when having language's variants.
- $wgUserFallbackLanguages – maximum number of fallback languages per user
Timezone settings
- $wgLocaltimezone – Fake out the timezone that the server thinks it's in.
- $wgLocalTZoffset – Add a distance to the server timezone in minutes.
Language-specific
- English
- $wgAmericanDates – Use 'mdy' instead of 'dmy' as the default date format, e.g. 'May 12' instead of '12 May'.
- Arabic/Hindi
- $wgTranslateNumerals – For Hindi, Arabic, and other languages with their own numeral systems, use local numerals instead of Western style (0-9) numerals in some areas of the interface.
Output format and skin settings
Output
- $wgBrowserFormatDetection – Override ability of certain browsers to attempt to autodetect dataformats in pages.
- $wgDisableOutputCompression – Disable output compression (compression enabled by default if zlib is available).
- $wgEdititis – Display user edit counts on special page "User list".
- $wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish – Vary the 'save' labels to 'publish' for public wikis.
- $wgEnableCanonicalServerLink – Output a
<link rel="canonical">
tag on every page indicating the canonical server which should be used, i.e.$wgServer
or$wgCanonicalServer
. - $wgExternalInterwikiFragmentMode – Determines which ID escaping mode should be used for external interwiki links
- $wgFragmentMode – Determines how section IDs should be encoded
- $wgInterwikiLogoOverride (introduced in 1.41) – List of interwiki logos overrides.
- $wgHTMLFormAllowTableFormat (removed in 1.42) – Allow form components to render tables.
- $wgHtml5Version – Defines the value of the version attribute in the
<html>
tag, if any. - $wgMangleFlashPolicy (removed in 1.40) – Whether to mangle any
<cross-domain-policy>
(Adobe cross-domain policy) tags, to prevent XSS attacks. - $wgMimeType – The type to send in the
Content-Type
header. - $wgSend404Code – Send 404 HTTP status for not found pages.
- $wgShowRollbackEditCount – Maximum number to count when a rollback link is shown
- $wgSiteNotice – A message to be displayed at the top of every page.
- $wgUseMediaWikiUIEverywhere (removed in 1.42) – Applies MediaWiki UI wherever it can be supported.
- $wgXhtmlNamespaces – Permit other XHTML namespaces in addition to the w3.org default.
Skins
- $wgDefaultSkin – The default skin for new users.
- $wgFallbackSkin – Fallback skin used when the skin defined by
$wgDefaultSkin
can't be found. - $wgFooterIcons – Abstract list of footer icons for skins. It replaces the old copyrightico and poweredbyico code, which until MediaWiki 1.27 could be influenced with $wgCopyrightIcon
- $wgSkinMetaTags – An array of open graph tags which should be added by all skins.
- $wgSkipSkins – Specify the name of skins that should not be presented in the list of available skins.
- $wgSkipSkin (removed in 1.35) – Specify the name of a skin that should not be presented in the list of available skins.
- $wgUseCombinedLoginLink – Login / create account link behavior when it's possible for anonymous users to create an account.
- $wgVectorUseIconWatch – Watch and unwatch as a star icon rather than a link (for Vector skin only).
- $wgVectorUseSimpleSearch – Search form behavior for Vector skin only.
ResourceLoader
- See ResourceLoader for more information.
- $wgAllowSiteCSSOnRestrictedPages – Allow site-wide Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) on restricted special pages
- $wgIncludeLegacyJavaScript (removed in 1.39) – Whether to include the mediawiki.legacy JavaScript library (old wikibits.js), and its dependencies.
- $wgLegacyJavaScriptGlobals (removed in 1.37) – Whether or not to assign configuration variables to the global window object.
- $wgResourceBasePath – Default
remoteBasePath
value for resource loader modules. - $wgResourceLoaderClientPreferences (introduced in 1.40) (removed in 1.41) – Enable client-side preferences for unregistered users.
- $wgResourceLoaderDebug – The default debug mode (on/off) for ResourceLoader requests.
- $wgResourceLoaderEnableJSProfiler – When enabled, execution of JavaScript modules is profiled client-side.
- $wgResourceLoaderEnableSourceMapLinks (introduced in 1.41) – Whether to include a SourceMap header in ResourceLoader responses for JavaScript modules.
- $wgResourceLoaderMaxage – How long a CDN or browser may cache a ResourceLoader HTTP response.
- $wgResourceLoaderMaxQueryLength – Maximum query string length for ResourceLoader requests.
- $wgResourceLoaderSources – Foreign module sources registry.
- $wgResourceLoaderStorageEnabled – Whether ResourceLoader should attempt to persist modules in localStorage on browsers that support the Web Storage API.
- $wgResourceLoaderStorageVersion – Cache version for client-side ResourceLoader module storage.
- $wgResourceLoaderUseObjectCacheForDeps – Use the main stash instead of the module_deps table for indirect dependency tracking
- $wgResourceLoaderValidateJS – Validate JavaScript code loaded from wiki pages.
- $wgResourceModuleSkinStyles – Array of additional skin-provided stylesheets to existing ResourceLoader modules.
- $wgResourceModules – Array of all extra defined modules that can later be loaded during the output.
- $wgVueDevelopmentMode – Whether to use the development version of Vue.js.
Page titles and redirects
- $wgDisableHardRedirects – Disable redirects to special pages and interwiki redirects, which use a 302 and have no "redirected from" link.
- $wgFixDoubleRedirects – Fix double redirects after a page move.
- $wgInvalidRedirectTargets – Array of invalid page redirect targets.
- $wgShortPagesNamespaceBlacklist (removed in 1.37) – Optional array of namespaces which should be blacklisted from Special:ShortPages
- $wgShortPagesNamespaceExclusions – Optional array of namespaces which should be excluded from Special:ShortPages
- $wgCapitalLinkOverrides – Per namespace configuration for $wgCapitalLinks .
- $wgCapitalLinks – Set this to false to avoid forcing the first letter of links to capitals.
- $wgLegalTitleChars (deprecated in 1.41) – Override the default list of illegal characters in page titles.
- $wgMaxRedirects (removed in 1.39) – Max number of redirects to follow when resolving redirects.
Namespaces
- $wgContentNamespaces – Namespaces which are considered to contain real content, or articles
- $wgCanonicalNamespaceNames – Canonical namespace names.
- $wgExtraNamespaces – Additional namespaces.
- $wgExtraGenderNamespaces – Same as $wgExtraNamespaces , but for namespaces with gender distinction.
- $wgExtraSignatureNamespaces – Controls in which subject (non-talk) namespaces the "Signature" button on the edit toolbar will be displayed.
- $wgMetaNamespace – Name used for the meta namespace.
- $wgMetaNamespaceTalk – Name of the project talk namespace.
- $wgNamespaceAliases – Provide additional names for namespaces.
- $wgNamespacesWithSubpages – Which namespaces should support subpages?
Mobile support
Interwiki links and sites
- $wgInterwikiPrefixDisplayTypes (removed in 1.39) – Mapping of interwiki index prefixes to descriptors that can be used to change the display of interwiki search results.
- $wgLocalInterwikis – Array of interwiki prefixes for this wiki.
- $wgLocalInterwiki (removed in 1.35) – Interwiki prefix for this wiki.
- $wgRedirectSources – Regular expression to restrict URLs which will be displayed as "redirected from" links.
- $wgSiteTypes – Register handlers for specific types of sites.
Interwiki cache
- See interwiki cache for more information.
- $wgInterwikiCache – Interwiki cache as an associative array.
- $wgInterwikiExpiry – Expiry time for memcached cache of
interwiki
table. - $wgInterwikiFallbackSite – Used by maintenance scripts to dump
interwiki
table - $wgInterwikiScopes – Used by
getInterwikiCache()
to retrieve from interwiki database file
Parser
- $wgAllowDisplayTitle – Allows use of
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}
magic word - $wgAllowExternalImagesFrom – If
$wgAllowExternalImages
is false, you can specify exceptions here. - $wgAllowExternalImages – Determines whether or not MediaWiki will allow external images to be rendered inline with text.
- $wgAllowImageTag (removed in 1.42) – Allow
<img>
tag to be used in wikitext. - $wgCleanSignatures – Substitute templates in signatures.
- $wgEnableImageWhitelist – Enables an on-wiki external image whitelist
- $wgEnableMagicLinks – Controls whether magic link functionality should be enabled
- $wgEnableScaryTranscluding – Allow templates to be imported/transcluded from another wiki.
- $wgExpensiveParserFunctionLimit – Maximum number of calls per parse to expensive parser functions such as PAGESINCATEGORY.
- $wgExternalLinkTarget – Set a default target for external links.
- $wgMaxGeneratedPPNodeCount (removed in 1.35) – A complexity limit on template expansion: the maximum number of nodes generated by
Preprocessor::preprocessToObj()
- $wgMaxPPExpandDepth – Stack depth limit for expansion with the preprocessor.
- $wgMaxPPNodeCount – A complexity limit on template expansion: the maximum number of nodes visited by
PPFrame::expand()
- $wgMaxTemplateDepth – Maximum recursion depth for templates within templates.
- $wgMaxTocLevel – Maximum indent level of the table of contents (ToC).
- $wgNoFollowDomainExceptions – External links to these domain names (or any subdomains) will not be set to
rel="nofollow"
. - $wgNoFollowLinks – If true, external URL links in wiki text will be given the
rel="nofollow"
attribute. - $wgNoFollowNsExceptions – Namespaces in which Manual:$wgNoFollowLinks doesn't apply.
- $wgParserConf (removed in 1.36) – Parser configuration.
- $wgParserEnableLegacyHeadingDOM (introduced in 1.43) – Enable legacy HTML structure for headings in the output from the Parser.
- $wgParserEnableLegacyMediaDOM (deprecated in 1.41) – Enable legacy media HTML structure in the output from the Parser.
- $wgParsoidSettings – Default Parsoid configuration.
- $wgPreprocessorCacheThreshold – Preprocessor caching threshold.
- $wgRegisterInternalExternals – Whether to register external links pointing to the same server.
- $wgRestrictDisplayTitle – Restrict
{{DISPLAYTITLE}}
to titles that normalize to the same canonical database key - $wgTranscludeCacheExpiry – Expiry time for interwiki transclusion cache
- $wgUrlProtocols – Defines the protocols which are supported and translated in HTML by the mediawiki parser.
- $wgUseNewMediaStructure (removed in 1.37) – Emit using the new media structure described at, Parsing/Media structure
- $wgUseLegacyMediaStyles (introduced in 1.41) – Temporary flag to re-enable the old thumbnail styles provided by core for the legacy media HTML structure.
HTML
- $wgRawHtml – Allow raw, unchecked HTML in
<html>...</html>
sections. - $wgTidyConfig – Configuration of the HTML postprocessing tool to use for fixing invalid HTML code.
Statistics and content analysis
- $wgActiveUserDays – The number of days within which a person must make edits to be considered an "active" user
- $wgArticleCountMethod – Method used to determine if a page in a content namespace should be counted as a valid content page (article).
- $wgDisableCounters (removed in 1.35) – Disable page view counters.
- $wgExperiencedUserEdits – Determines the number of edits needed to qualify at the "Experienced user" level.
- $wgExperiencedUserMemberSince – Determines the number of days needed since account creation to qualify at the "Experienced user" level.
- $wgLearnerEdits – Determines the number of edits needed to qualify at the "Learner" experience level.
- $wgLearnerMemberSince – Determines the number of days needed since account creation to qualify at the "Learner" experience level.
- $wgManualRevertSearchRadius – Maximum number of revisions of a page that will be checked against every new edit made to determine whether the edit was a manual revert.
- $wgRevertedTagMaxDepth – Maximum depth (revision count) of reverts that will have their reverted edits marked with the mw-reverted change tag.
User accounts, authentication
- $wgAllowRequiringEmailForResets – Temporary feature flag that controls whether users will see a checkbox allowing them to require providing email during password resets.
- $wgAutoCreateTempUser – Configuration for automatic creation of temporary accounts on page save.
- $wgConditionalUserOptions (introduced in 1.42) – Default user preferences.
- $wgDefaultUserOptions – Default user preferences.
- $wgHiddenPrefs – Disable certain user preferences.
- $wgInvalidUsernameCharacters – Characters to prevent during new account creations.
- $wgMaximalPasswordLength (removed in 1.42) – Specifies the maximal length of a user password.
- $wgMaxNameChars – Maximum number of bytes in username.
- $wgMaxSigChars – Maximum wiki code length for customized signatures.
- $wgMinimalPasswordLength (removed in 1.42) – Specifies the minimal length of a user password.
- $wgPasswordPolicy – Specifies various settings related to password strength and security.
- $wgReservedUsernames – List of account names that cannot exist.
- $wgSignatureValidation – Behavior of signature validation.
- $wgSignatureAllowedLintErrors – List of lint error codes which don't cause signature validation to fail.
- $wgUserrightsInterwikiDelimiter – Character used as the separator between username and database name on Special:UserRights.
Authentication
- $wgAllowSecuritySensitiveOperationIfCannotReauthenticate – Whether to allow security-sensitive operations when reauthentication is not possible
- $wgAuthenticationTokenVersion – When changed, all existing sessions are invalidated.
- $wgAuthManagerAutoConfig – Register authentication providers to use with AuthManager
- $wgAuthManagerConfig – Manual override for authentication provider configuration
- $wgCentralIdLookupProviders – Register central ID lookup providers.
- $wgCentralIdLookupProvider – Default central id lookup implementation to use
- $wgChangeCredentialsBlacklist – List of AuthenticationRequest class names which are not changeable through Special:ChangeCredentials and the changeauthenticationdata API.
- $wgInvalidPasswordReset – Specifies if users should be sent to a password-reset form on login in case of an inadequate password.
- $wgPasswordConfig – Configuration for built-in password types.
- $wgPasswordDefault – Default password type to use when hashing user passwords.
- $wgPasswordResetRoutes – Whether to allow password resets identified by various bits of data.
- $wgReauthenticateTime – Time frame for re-authentication
- $wgRememberMe – Configures RememberMe authentication request added by AuthManager.
- $wgRemoveCredentialsBlacklist – List of AuthenticationRequest class names which are not removable through Special:RemoveCredentials and the removeauthenticationdata API.
- $wgSecureLogin – Whether to let user authenticate using https when they come from http.
- $wgSessionProviders – Session provider configuration.
- $wgUserRegistrationProviders (introduced in 1.41) – User registration timestamp provider classes
User rights, access control and monitoring
- $wgAddGroups – Controls who can add specific groups using Special:Userrights.
- $wgAutoblockExpiry – Number of seconds before autoblock entries expire
- $wgBlockAllowsUTEdit – Allow blocked users to edit their talk pages
- $wgDeleteRevisionsBatchSize – Page deletions with > this number of revisions will use the job queue.
- $wgDnsBlacklistUrls – List of DNS blacklists to use, if
$wgEnableDnsBlacklist
istrue
. - $wgEmailConfirmToEdit – Require users to confirm email address before they can edit, true to enable.
- $wgEnableDnsBlacklist – Whether to use DNS blocklists in
$wgDnsBlacklistUrls
to check for open proxies. - $wgGrantPermissionGroups – Used to define grant groups and assign grants to them.
- $wgGrantPermissions – Used to define grants and assign permissions to them.
- $wgGrantRiskGroups (introduced in 1.42) – Group grants by risk level.
- $wgGroupInheritsPermissions – Groups that should inherit permissions from another group.
- $wgGroupPermissions – Use this to set access rights for groups and users in these groups.
- $wgGroupsAddToSelf – Use this to allow users to add themselves to specified groups via Special:Userrights.
- $wgGroupsRemoveFromSelf – Use this to allow users to remove themselves from specified groups via Special:Userrights.
- $wgHideUserContribLimit – The maximum number of edits a user can have and can still be hidden by users with the
hideuser
permission. - $wgImplicitGroups – Groups that are not shown on Special:Listusers or somewhere else
- $wgPasswordAttemptThrottle – Limit password attempts per IP per address.
- $wgPrivilegedGroups (introduced in 1.40.1) – List of groups which should be considered privileged (user accounts belonging in these groups can be abused in dangerous ways).
- $wgProxyList – A list of IP addresses to be banned
- $wgProxyWhitelist – Proxy allowlist: list of addresses that are assumed to be non-proxy despite what the other methods might say.
- $wgRateLimitsExcludedIPs – Array of IPs/CIDR ranges which should never trigger the rate limiter.
- $wgRateLimits – Simple rate limiter options to brake edit floods.
- $wgRemoveGroups – Controls who can remove specific groups using Special:Userrights.
- $wgRevokePermissions – Permission keys revoked from users in each group.
- $wgWhitelistReadRegexp – Whitelists publicly readable titles with regular expressions.
- $wgWhitelistRead – Pages anonymous user may see.
Access
Blocking/banning, and some other related settings.
- $wgAccountCreationThrottle – Number of accounts each IP address may create, 0 to disable.
- $wgApplyIpBlocksToXff – Apply IP address blocks also to users having a blocked IP in their XFF header.
- $wgAutoConfirmAge – Number of seconds an account is required to age before it's given the implicit 'autoconfirmed' group membership.
- $wgAutoConfirmCount – Number of edits an account requires before it is autoconfirmed.
- $wgAutopromoteOnceLogInRC – Whether to put user rights log entries for autopromotion in recent changes.
- $wgAutopromoteOnce – Conditions of automatic promotion of user to specific groups that are done only once.
- $wgAutopromote – Conditions of automatic promotion of user to specific groups
- $wgAvailableRights – A list of available rights, in addition to the ones defined by the core.
- $wgBlockCIDRLimit – Maximum CIDR range when blocking an IP range.
- $wgBlockDisablesLogin – If set to true, blocked users will no longer be allowed to log in
- $wgBlockTargetMigrationStage (introduced in 1.42) (deprecated in 1.43) –
ipblocks
table schema migration stage, for normalizingipb_address
field and adding theblock_target
table. - $wgBotPasswordsCluster (deprecated in 1.42) – Cluster name for the
bot_passwords
table - $wgBotPasswordsDatabase (deprecated in 1.42) – Database name for the
bot_passwords
table - $wgCascadingRestrictionLevels – Restriction levels that can be used with cascading protection
- $wgDeleteRevisionsLimit – Integer of how many revisions a page must have before the bigdelete right is required to delete it.
- $wgEnableBotPasswords – Whether to enable bot passwords
- $wgEnableMultiBlocks (introduced in 1.42) – If this is
false
, the number of blocks of a given target is limited to only 1. - $wgEnablePartialBlocks (removed in 1.35) – Allow partial blocks to be created
- $wgEnablePartialActionBlocks – Flag to enable partial blocks against performing certain actions.
- $wgHideIdentifiableRedirects – Protects user's privacy when doing redirects
- $wgImplicitRights (introduced in 1.41) – A list of implicit rights, in addition to the ones defined by the core.
- $wgNamespaceProtection – Which namespaces can be edited by whom?
- $wgNonincludableNamespaces – Use this to deny inclusion of pages from specific namespaces.
- $wgPutIPinRC – Log IP addresses in the recentchanges table.
- $wgQueryPageDefaultLimit – Integer defining default number of entries to show on query pages
- $wgRestrictionLevels – Set of permission keys that can be selected on the "page protection" page.
- $wgRestrictionTypes – Actions that can be restricted
- $wgSemiprotectedRestrictionLevels – Restriction levels that are considered "semi-protected"
- $wgSoftBlockRanges – IP ranges that should be considered soft-blocked (anon-only, account creation allowed)
- $wgSpamRegex – A regular expression pattern which, if the page content matched it, stops a page from being saved.
- $wgSummarySpamRegex – Same as
$wgSpamRegex
except for edit summaries. - $wgSysopEmailBans (removed in 1.35) – Allow sysops to ban users from accessing Special:Emailuser.
- $wgTempAccountCreationThrottle (introduced in 1.42) – Number of temporary accounts each IP address may create per specified period(s).
- $wgTempAccountNameAcquisitionThrottle (introduced in 1.42) – Number of temporary accounts usernames each IP address may acquire per specified period(s).
See Manual:Preventing access for more methods and settings concerning access. See also Manual:User rights for more information about $wgGroupPermissions, $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups, etc.
- See User Access for User Access settings.
Security
- $wgAllowCrossOrigin – Allow anonymous cross origin requests.
- $wgAllowUserCssPrefs – Allow user preferences implemented in CSS.
- $wgAllowUserCss – Allow user Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- $wgAllowUserJs – Allow user JavaScript pages
- $wgApiFrameOptions – Control framing of api pages.
- $wgBreakFrames – Break out of framesets. This can be used to prevent external sites from framing your site with ads.
- $wgCSPFalsePositiveUrls – Controls what URLs to ignore in upcoming Content-Security-Policy feature's reporting.
- $wgCSPHeader – Controls Content-Security-Policy header [Experimental]
- $wgCSPReportOnlyHeader – Controls Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only header [Experimental]
- $wgEditPageFrameOptions – Control framing of wiki pages globally.
- $wgHKDFAlgorithm – Algorithm for HMAC-based key derivation function (fast, cryptographically secure random numbers).
- $wgHKDFSecret – Secret for HMAC-based key derivation function (fast, cryptographically secure random numbers).
- $wgRestAllowCrossOriginCookieAuth – Allows authenticated cross-origin requests to the REST API with session cookies.
- $wgSecretKey – This should always be customized to a secret, unique string in LocalSettings.php .
- $wgSessionInsecureSecrets (removed in 1.43) – Allows MediaWiki to work at the cost of storing sensitive session data insecurely.
- $wgSessionSecret – Secret for session storage.
- $wgUseSiteCss – Use the site's Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- $wgUseSiteJs – Use the site's JavaScript page
Cookies
- $wgCacheVaryCookies – A list of cookies that influence the cache.
- $wgCookieDomain – Explicit domain for login cookies.
- $wgCookieExpiration – Number of seconds before HTTP cookies expire. You can override this for 'Keep me logged in (for up to $1 days)' cookies with
$wgExtendedLoginCookieExpiration
- $wgCookieHttpOnly – Set the
httpOnly
flag on all cookies set by MediaWiki (to prevent access from JavaScript). - $wgCookiePath – Explicitly declared "path" for cookies at the cookie domain
- $wgCookiePrefix – Custom cookie prefix.
- $wgCookieSameSite – The SameSite cookie attribute used for login cookies.
- $wgCookieSecure – Whether cookies are secured.
- $wgCookieSetOnAutoblock – Determines whether to set a cookie when a user is autoblocked. Doing so means that a blocked user, even after logging out and moving to a new IP address, will still be blocked.
- $wgCookieSetOnIpBlock – Determines whether to set a cookie when an IP user is blocked. Doing so means that a blocked user, even after moving to a new IP address, will still be blocked.
- $wgDisableCookieCheck (removed in 1.42) – Disables session cookies
- $wgExtendedLoginCookieExpiration – If non-null, duration in seconds to use for "Keep me logged in (for up to $1 days)" sessions; 0 means until the browser is closed. If null, uses $wgCookieExpiration
- $wgSessionName – Override to customize the session name.
- $wgUseSameSiteLegacyCookies (removed in 1.42) – Send a legacy cookie with an
ss0-
prefix whenSameSite=None
is sent.
Profiling, testing and debugging
- $wgCachePrefix – Custom value for the cache key prefix.
- $wgEnableJavaScriptTest – Allows running of JavaScript test suites via Special:JavaScriptTest (such as QUnit).
- $wgParserTestFiles (removed in 1.40) – Parser test suite files to be run by parserTests.php.
Debug
- See also: Manual:How to debug
- $wgDebugComments – Include portions of log output in page HTML comment
- $wgDebugDumpSql – Dump SQL queries to debug output
- $wgDebugLogFile – The file name of the debug log, or empty if disabled.
- $wgDebugLogGroups – Direct
wfDebugLog()
output for certain groups to files other than$wgDebugLogFile
. - $wgDebugLogPrefix – Prefix for debug log lines.
- $wgDebugRawPage – If false, 'action=raw' and load.php hits will not result in debug output.
- $wgDebugRedirects – Displays redirect location instead of actually redirecting to the target URL
- $wgDebugTimestamps (removed in 1.35) – Prefix debug messages with relative timestamp.
- $wgDebugToolbar – Display the debugging toolbar
- $wgDeprecationReleaseLimit – Release limitation to
wfDeprecated
warnings. - $wgDevelopmentWarnings – Whether to throw PHP notices for some possible error conditions and for deprecated functions.
- $wgLogExceptionBacktrace – Whether to send the exception backtrace to the error log.
- $wgMWLoggerDefaultSpi – Default service provider for creating MWLogger instances.
- $wgOverrideHostname – Override server hostname detection with a hardcoded value.
- $wgPageInfoTransclusionLimit – Limit template transclusion on InfoAction
- $wgPropagateErrors – If true, the MediaWiki error handler passes errors/warnings to the default error handler after logging them.
- $wgShowDBErrorBacktrace (removed in 1.37) – If true, show a backtrace for database errors.
- $wgShowDebug – Show debug data at bottom of content area
- $wgShowExceptionDetails – If set to true, uncaught exceptions will print a detailed stack trace to output.
- $wgShowHostnames – If set to
true
, exposes host names through API and HTML comments. - $wgShowSQLErrors (removed in 1.37) – Whether to show SQL errors on "we're sorry, but there has been a database error" pages.
- $wgSpecialVersionShowHooks – Whether to show the contents of $wgHooks in Special:Version.
- $wgTrxProfilerLimits – Performance expectations for DB usage
Profiling
- $wgEnableProfileInfo (removed in 1.35) – Controls the availability of profileinfo.php.
- $wgMetricsTarget (removed in 1.40) – Output target URI for the MetricsFactory service, e.g. udp://127.0.0.1:8125.
- $wgMetricsPrefix (removed in 1.40) – Service name prefix for the MetricsFactory service.
- $wgMetricsFormat (removed in 1.40) – Output format for the MetricsFactory service, e.g. 'statsd'.
- $wgProfiler – Settings related to profiling.
- $wgProfileLimit (removed in 1.35) – Only record profiling info for pages that took longer than this number of seconds to load.
- $wgProfileOnly (removed in 1.35) – Don't put non-profiling info into log file
- $wgStatsdMetricPrefix – Prefix for metric names sent to $wgStatsdServer
- $wgStatsdSamplingRates (removed in 1.43) – Sampling rate for statsd metrics as an associative array of patterns and rates.
- $wgStatsdServer – A host or host:port of a statsd server.
- $wgStatsFormat (introduced in 1.40) – Output format for the StatsFactory service, e.g. 'statsd'.
- $wgStatsPrefix (introduced in 1.40) – Service name prefix for the StatsFactory service.
- $wgStatsTarget (introduced in 1.40) – Output target URI for the StatsFactory service, e.g. udp://127.0.0.1:8125.
Search
- $wgAdvancedSearchHighlighting – Set to true to have more useful text snippets in search results.
- $wgDisableInternalSearch – Disable internal search so that extensions can implement it.
- $wgDisableSearchUpdate – If you've disabled search semi-permanently, this also disables updates to the table.
- $wgDisableTextSearch – Disable full-text search.
- $wgEnableOpenSearchSuggest (removed in 1.40) – Enable OpenSearch suggestions requested by MediaWiki.
- $wgEnableSearchContributorsByIP – Whether searching for an IP address will be redirected to that IP's contributions page.
- $wgNamespacesToBeSearchedDefault – Which namespaces should be searched?
- $wgOpenSearchDefaultLimit – Integer defining default number of entries to show on OpenSearch call.
- $wgOpenSearchDescriptionLength – Minimum length of extract in
<Description>
. - $wgOpenSearchTemplates – Templates for OpenSearch suggestions.
- $wgOpenSearchTemplate (removed in 1.42) – Template for OpenSearch suggestions.
- $wgSearchForwardUrl – Set this to a URL to forward search requests to some external location.
- $wgSearchHighlightBoundaries – Regexp to match word boundaries
- $wgSearchMatchRedirectPreference – Set
true
to allow logged-in users to set a preference whether or not matches in search results should force redirection to that page. - $wgSearchRunSuggestedQuery – If search returns zero results and current search engine has a "did you mean" suggestion, results for the suggestion will be shown.
- $wgSearchSuggestCacheExpiry – Expiry time for search suggestion responses.
- $wgSitemapNamespacesPriorities – Custom namespace priorities for sitemaps.
- $wgSitemapNamespaces – Array of namespaces identified by their IDs to generate a sitemap or false for all namespaces.
- $wgSpecialSearchFormOptions – Options for Special:Search completion widget form created by SearchFormWidget class.
- $wgUseTwoButtonsSearchForm (removed in 1.36) – Sidebar's search form behavior.
Edit user interface
- $wgDiff3 – Path to the GNU diff3 utility.
- $wgDiff – Path to the GNU diff utility.
- $wgPreviewOnOpenNamespaces – Namespaces where preview-on-first-edit is forced.
- $wgUniversalEditButton – Enable the UniversalEditButton for browsers that support it.
- $wgUseAutomaticEditSummaries – Whether MediaWiki should make automatic edit summaries.
Maintenance Scripts setting
- $wgCommandLineDarkBg – Assume a dark terminal background for maintenance scripts.
- $wgCommandLineMode – Indicates whether MW is running in command-line mode. Should never be set manually!
- $wgGitBin – Path to the git binary.
- $wgGitRepositoryViewers – Map of Git repository URLs to their gitweb interface URLs
- $wgReadOnlyFile – If this file is found, the database is locked for the reason given in the contents of the file.
- $wgReadOnlyWatchedItemStore – Set this to
true
to put the wiki watchlists into read-only mode. - $wgReadOnly – Disallows editing, displaying the string given as the reason.
- $wgUpgradeKey – Password that controls access to web-based updater.
Recent changes, new pages, watchlist and history
See also Help:Recent changes and $wgDefaultUserOptions
.
- $wgDisableAnonTalk – Disable talk pages for anonymous users (not logged in).
- $wgRCChangedSizeThreshold – Highlight character count difference lower than this.
- $wgRCEngines (deprecated in 1.38) – Legacy mapping from URI schemes to RCFeed subclasses.
- $wgRCFeeds – Configuration for sending RC updates
- $wgRCFilterByAge – Filter $wgRCLinkDays by $wgRCMaxAge to avoid showing links for numbers higher than what will be stored.
- $wgRCLinkDays – List days options to list in the Special:Recentchanges and Special:Recentchangeslinked pages.
- $wgRCLinkLimits – List changes limits options to list in the Special:Recentchanges and Special:Recentchangeslinked pages.
- $wgRCMaxAge – Items in the recentchanges table are periodically purged; entries older than this many seconds will go.
- $wgRCShowChangedSize – Show the amount of changed characters in recent changes.
- $wgRCShowWatchingUsers – Show watching users in recent changes, watchlist and page history views.
- $wgRCWatchCategoryMembership – Treat category membership changes as a RecentChange.
- $wgRecentChangesFlags – Flags (letter symbols) shown in recent changes and watchlist to indicate certain types of edits.
- $wgShowUpdatedMarker – Show new changes: bold in watchlist, with "updated since my last visit" in history.
- $wgSoftwareTags – List of core tags to enable.
- $wgStructuredChangeFiltersLiveUpdatePollingRate – Polling rate, in seconds, used by the 'live update' feature of Special:RecentChanges and Special:Watchlist
- $wgUnwatchedPageSecret – If active watchers (per $wgWatchersMaxAge ) are this number or less, do not disclose it.
- $wgUnwatchedPageThreshold – Allows users without the "unwatchedpages" user right to view the number of page watchers for a specified page via the "info" action if the number of watchers is above the specified threshold.
- $wgUseFilePatrol – Use file patrolling to check new files on Special:NewFiles
- $wgUseNPPatrol – Use new pages patrolling to check for vandalism
- $wgUseRCPatrol – Use RC patrolling to check for vandalism
- $wgUseTagFilter – Allow filtering by change tag in recentchanges, history, etc.
- $wgWatchersMaxAge – Page watchers inactive for more than this many seconds are considered inactive. Used mainly by action=info .
- $wgWatchlistExpiryMaxDuration – Relative maximum duration for watchlist expiries, as accepted by strtotime().
- $wgWatchlistExpiry – Enable the watchlist expiry feature.
- $wgWatchlistPurgeRate – The per-edit rate at which expired watchlist items will be purged from the database.
Feed
- $wgFeed – Toggle syndication feeds (RSS, Atom e.g. Recentchanges, Newpages) on and off.
- $wgAdvertisedFeedTypes – Feed types that should be provided by default.
- $wgFeedCacheTimeout – Minimum timeout for cached Recentchanges feed, in seconds.
- $wgFeedClasses – Available feeds objects.
- $wgFeedDiffCutoff – When generating Recentchanges RSS/Atom feed, diffs will not be generated for pages larger than this size.
- $wgFeedLimit – Set maximum number of results to return in syndication feeds (RSS, Atom) for e.g. Recentchanges, Newpages.
- $wgOverrideSiteFeed – Override the site's default rss/atom feed that appears on every page.
Copyright
- $wgMaxCredits – Set this to the number of authors that you want to be credited below an article text.
- $wgRightsIcon – Override for copyright metadata.
- $wgRightsPage – Override for copyright metadata.
- $wgRightsText – Override for copyright metadata.
- $wgRightsUrl – Override for copyright metadata.
- $wgShowCreditsIfMax – If there are more than
$wgMaxCredits
authors, show$wgMaxCredits
of them. - $wgUseCopyrightUpload – Set this to true if you want detailed copyright information forms on Upload.
Import/Export
- $wgExportAllowAll – Whether to allow exporting the entire wiki into a single file.
- $wgExportAllowHistory – Controls the availability of the full-history feature on "Special:Export".
- $wgExportAllowListContributors – Controls whether to allow to list all contributors while exporting a page using
Special:Export
. - $wgExportFromNamespaces – Whether to allow the "export all pages in namespace" option.
- $wgExportMaxHistory – Requests using "Special:Export" for pages with a revision history higher than set will be rejected.
- $wgExportMaxLinkDepth – Maximum value of the "pagelink-depth" parameter in Special:Export.
- $wgExportPagelistLimit – Maximum number of pages returned by the GetPagesFromCategory and GetPagesFromNamespace functions.
- $wgImportSources – List of interwiki prefixes for wikis we'll accept as sources for Special:Import
- $wgImportTargetNamespace – Optional default target namespace for interwiki imports.
- $wgXmlDumpSchemaVersion – The schema to use by default when generating XML dumps.
Extensions
- $wgAutoloadAttemptLowercase (removed in 1.40) – Switch controlling legacy case-insensitive classloading.
- $wgAutoloadClasses – Array mapping class names to filenames, for autoloading.
- $wgEnableParserLimitReporting – Controls whether the NewPP parser report is output in a HTML comment.
- $wgExtensionCredits (deprecated in 1.25) – Global list of extension credits
- $wgExtensionEntryPointListFiles – Array of files with list(s) of extension entry points to be used in maintenance/mergeMessageFileList.php
- $wgExtensionFunctions – A list of callback functions which are called once MediaWiki is fully initialised.
- $wgExtensionMessagesFiles – Extension messages files.
- $wgHooks – Global list of hooks.
- $wgJobBackoffThrottling – Number of times work items of a job type can be run per second.
- $wgJobClasses – Maps jobs to their handling classes.
- $wgJobQueueIncludeInMaxLagFactor – Whether to include the number of jobs that are queued for the API's maxlag parameter.
- $wgJobSerialCommitThreshold (removed in 1.42) – Make job runners commit changes for replica DB-lag prone jobs one job at a time.
- $wgJobTypeConf – Configuration for job storage.
- $wgJobTypesExcludedFromDefaultQueue – Jobs that must be explicitly requested, i.e. aren't run by job runners unless special flags are set.
- $wgMessagesDirs – Extension messages directories.
- $wgPagePropLinkInvalidations – Page property link table invalidation lists.
- $wgParserOutputHooks (removed in 1.41) – Parser output hooks.
- $wgServiceWiringFiles – List of service wiring files to be loaded by the default instance of MediaWikiServices.
- $wgSpecialPageCacheUpdates – Additional functions to be performed with updateSpecialPages.php .
- $wgSpecialPages – A list of custom special pages.
- $wgValidSkinNames – List of valid skin names. Skins can optionally use this variable to tell MediaWiki that they are available.
Category
- $wgCategoryCollation – What collation categories use to sort with
- $wgCategoryMagicGallery – On category pages, show thumbnail gallery for images belonging to that category instead of listing them as articles.
- $wgCategoryPagingLimit – Paging limit for items in categories.
- $wgUseCategoryBrowser (removed in 1.38) – Enable/Disable experimental breadcrumb (or dmoz-style) category browsing.
- $wgTempCategoryCollations – Additional category collations to store during LinksUpdate.
- $wgTrackingCategories (deprecated in 1.25) – The list of messages representing tracking categories which are listed at Special:TrackingCategories.
Logging
- $wgActionFilteredLogs – List of log types that can be filtered by action types
- $wgFilterLogTypes – Show/hide links on Special:Log will be shown for these log types.
- $wgLogActionsHandlers – Same as
$wgLogActions
, but values are LogFormatter derived class names. - $wgLogActions – Lists the message key string for formatting individual events of each type and action when listed in the logs.
- $wgLogHeaders – Lists the message key string for descriptive text to be shown at the top of each log type.
- $wgLogNames – Lists the message key string for each log type.
- $wgLogRestrictions – Restricts log access to those who have a certain right.
- $wgLogTypes – List of log types.
- $wgNewUserLog – Whether to maintain a log of newusers, which can be viewed at Special:Log/newusers.
- $wgPageCreationLog – Whether to maintain a log of new page creations, which can be viewed at Special:Log/create.
Special pages
- $wgAllowSpecialInclusion – Allow special page inclusions such as
{{Special:Allpages}}
. - $wgCountCategorizedImagesAsUsed – On Special:UnusedFiles, consider images "used" if they are put into a category.
- $wgDisableQueryPageUpdate – Array of special pages that should not be updated.
- $wgMaxRedirectLinksRetrieved – Maximum number of links to a redirect page listed on Special:Whatlinkshere/RedirectDestination
- $wgRangeContributionsCIDRLimit – Shortest CIDR limits that can be checked in any individual range check at Special:Contributions.
Actions
- $wgActions – Array of allowed values for the "action" parameter for normal pages.
Robot policies
- $wgArticleRobotPolicies – Allow customisation of robot policies on a per-page basis.
- $wgDefaultRobotPolicy – Allows specifying the default robot policy for all pages on the wiki
- $wgExemptFromUserRobotsControl – An array of namespace keys in which the
__INDEX__
/__NOINDEX__
magic words will not function. - $wgNamespaceRobotPolicies – Allow customisation of robot policies on a per-namespace basis.
Ajax, Action API and REST API
Ajax
- $wgAjaxEditStash (removed in 1.37) – Whether edits should be prepared via AJAX as users type edit summaries.
- $wgAjaxExportList (removed in 1.38) – List of functions in
AjaxFunctions.php
that are callable viaaction=ajax
- $wgAjaxLicensePreview – Use Ajax to preview licensing for uploads.
- $wgAjaxUploadDestCheck (removed in 1.41) – Enable Ajax check for file overwrite, pre-upload.
- $wgUseAjax (removed in 1.38) – Enable AJAX support.
API
- $wgAllowedCorsHeaders – List of allowed headers for cross-origin API requests.
- $wgAPICacheHelpTimeout – Set the timeout for the API help text cache. Set to 0 to disable caching of API help text.
- $wgAPIFormatModules – API format module extensions.
- $wgAPIListModules – API list module extensions.
- $wgAPIMaxDBRows – Maximum number of rows to scan in API database queries.
- $wgAPIMaxLagThreshold – Maximum amount of DB lag on a majority of DB replica DBs to tolerate before forcing bots to retry any write requests via API errors.
- $wgAPIMaxResultSize – Maximum size (in bytes) of an API result.
- $wgAPIMaxUncachedDiffs – The maximum number of uncached diffs that can be retrieved in one API request.
- $wgAPIMetaModules – API meta module extensions.
- $wgAPIModules – API module extensions.
- $wgAPIPropModules – API prop module extensions.
- $wgAPIRequestLog (deprecated in 1.43) – Log file or URL (TCP or UDP) to log API requests to.
- $wgAPIUselessQueryPages – The ApiQueryQueryPages module should skip pages that are redundant to true API queries.
- $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomainExceptions – Domains that should not be allowed to make AJAX requests, even if they match one of the domains allowed by
$wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains
. - $wgCrossSiteAJAXdomains – Domains that may make cross-site Ajax requests to the MediaWiki API.
- $wgDebugAPI – Loosens API security to allow for easier debugging
- $wgEnableRestAPI (removed in 1.36) – Enable the MediaWiki REST API.
- $wgRestAPIAdditionalRouteFiles – Additional REST API Route files.
- $wgRestSandboxSpecs (introduced in 1.43) – A list of OpenAPI specs to be made available for exploration on Special:RestSandbox.
Shell and process control
- $wgPhpCli – Executable path of PHP cli client (php/php5).
- $wgMaxShellFileSize – Maximum file size created by shell processes under linux, in KiB.
- $wgMaxShellMemory – Maximum amount of virtual memory available to shell processes under Linux, in KiB.
- $wgMaxShellTime – Maximum CPU time in seconds for shell processes under Linux.
- $wgMaxShellWallClockTime – Limit shell commands duration using real time.
- $wgShellboxSecretKey – The secret key for HMAC verification of Shellbox requests.
- $wgShellboxUrl (removed in 1.40) – Shell commands can be run on a remote server using Shellbox.
- $wgShellboxUrls – Shell commands can be run on a remote server using Shellbox .
- $wgShellCgroup – Limit shell commands memory using linux Cgroups.
- $wgShellLocale (removed in 1.38) – Locale for
LC_ALL
. - $wgShellRestrictionMethod – Method to use to restrict shell commands
HTTP client
- $wgAllowExternalReqID – controls whether MediaWiki accepts the request ID set by the incoming request via the "X-Request-Id" header.
- $wgAsyncHTTPTimeout – Timeout for asynchronous HTTP requests.
- $wgHTTPConnectTimeout – Timeout for connections done internally (in seconds)
- $wgHTTPMaxTimeout – The maximum HTTP request timeout in seconds.
- $wgHTTPMaxConnectTimeout – The maximum HTTP connect timeout in seconds.
- $wgHTTPImportTimeout – Timeout for HTTP requests done internally for transwiki imports, in seconds.
- $wgHTTPProxy – Proxy to use for cURL requests
- $wgHTTPTimeout – Timeout for HTTP requests done via cURL.
- $wgLocalHTTPProxy – Reverse proxy to use for requests to domains in $wgLocalVirtualHosts
- $wgLocalVirtualHosts – Local virtual hosts.
Jobs
- $wgJobRunRate – Number of jobs to perform per request.
- $wgRunJobsAsync – Controls whether on-request jobs are run asynchronously or synchronously.
- $wgUpdateRowsPerJob – Number of rows to update per job.
- $wgUpdateRowsPerQuery – Number of rows to update per query.
Wiki farm
- $wgWikiFarmSettingsDirectory – A directory that contains site-specific configuration files.
- $wgWikiFarmSettingsExtension – The file extension to be used when looking up site-specific settings files in $wgWikiFarmSettingsDirectory , such as
'json'
or'yaml'
. - $wgWikiFarmSiteDetector (removed in 1.39) – Callback to use to determine the name of the requested site for the current request.
Miscellaneous settings
- $wgActorTableSchemaMigrationStage (removed in 1.39) –
actor
table schema migration stage. - $wgContentHandlerUseDB (removed in 1.35) – Whether to use the database fields introduced by the ContentHandler facility
- $wgEditRecoveryExpiry (introduced in 1.42) – Number of seconds to keep Edit Recovery data after the edit is stored.
- $wgElementTiming (removed in 1.39) – Enable Element Timing.
- $wgEnableEditRecovery (introduced in 1.41) – Whether to enable the client-side Edit Recovery feature.
- $wgEnableProtectionIndicators (introduced in 1.43) – Whether to show indicators on a page when it is protected.
- $wgEventRelayerConfig – Mapping of event channels (or channel categories) to EventRelayer configuration.
- $wgFeaturePolicyReportOnly – List of Feature Policy Reporting types to enable.
- $wgOutputPipelineStages (introduced in 1.43) – OutputPipelineStages to add to the DefaultOutputPipeline.
- $wgOriginTrials – Origin Trials tokens.
- $wgPagePropsHaveSortkey (removed in 1.36) – Set to false if the
page_props
table doesn't have app_sortkey
column - $wgPingback – If true, MediaWiki will report back data about its installation from time to time to aid developers
- $wgPopularPasswordFile (removed in 1.35) – Where popular password file is located.
- $wgPriorityHintsRatio (removed in 1.39) – Ratio of requests that should get Priority Hints when the feature is enabled.
- $wgPriorityHints (removed in 1.39) – Enable client-side Priority Hints.
- $wgRedirectOnLogin – Redirect users to page on login
- $wgReportToEndpoints – List of endpoints for the Reporting API.
- $wgReportToExpiry – Expiry of the endpoint definition for the Reporting API.
- $wgShowDiffToggleSwitch (introduced in 1.41) (deprecated in 1.41) – Specifies if users should see the inline switch in diff pages.
- $wgShowLogoutConfirmation (introduced in 1.42) – Whether to display a confirmation screen during user log out.
- $wgSkinsPreferred – List of preferred skins to be listed higher in Special:Preferences
- $wgSpecialContributeSkinsDisabled (introduced in 1.40) (removed in 1.40) – List of skins to not show the Special:Contribute page
- $wgSpecialContributeSkinsEnabled (introduced in 1.40) – List of skins that show a link to the Special:Contribute page
- $wgTranslationAliasesDirs (introduced in 1.42) – Message directories containing JSON files for localisation of special page aliases.
- $wgUseCodexSpecialBlock (introduced in 1.42) – Whether to use Codex in Special:Block form.
- $wgVirtualRestConfig – REST services configuration
- $wgWikiDiff2MovedParagraphDetectionCutoff (deprecated in 1.34) – This setting controls the maximum number of paragraphs to compare before it bails out.
See also
- Manual:Configuration for developers - how to set and retrieve configuration variables.
- Extension registration#Configs (Your extension/skins settings) - how to register new configuration variables for extensions and skins.