Manual:Configuration

The MediaWiki system is made up of many different parts. Once you have installed each of the components, you need to configure them to work together.

Configuring MediaWiki
The main configuration file for the MediaWiki software is.

For a list of configuration settings, see:
 * Manual:Configuration settings
 * Manual:Configuration settings (alphabetical) for an alphabetical list.

To configure specific parts of the software, see:
 * Manual:Cache for caching
 * Manual:Configuring file uploads for images
 * Manual:Short URL for URLs
 * Manual:Skin configuration for skins

Configuring Apache, PHP and the Database
If you have downloaded binary packages of MySQL (or Postgres), the Apache HTTP Server, and PHP, chances are that they came with an installation script that set them up for your system. To tweak them further, see:


 * Apache configuration
 * Robots.txt
 * PHP configuration
 * Database
 * MySQL
 * PostgreSQL
 * SQLite