Manual:$wgTmpDirectory/fr

Details
The local filesystem path to a temporary directory. This is not required to be accessible from the web. Used by  to control where temporary files MediaWiki needs are to be written, including:


 * Old and new tempfiles for external executable based external diff engines configured by
 * - used for chunked uploading, some transformations, and various parts of the file backend code
 * UID Generator node and lock files.
 * Upload from URL
 * The directory which a CACHE_DBA cache places it's DBA database file. Can be overridden using.
 * Importing uploads from XML dumps

The path to the temporary directory. When using CACHE_DBA as your, this allows you to select which directory is used.