Manual:Configuration settings

This is an index of all supported configuration settings based on the   file.

Never edit  ; copy appropriate lines to   instead and amend them as appropriate.

If you can't find a configuration setting here, see if it is defined in  .

The variable should have some documentation there.



URLs and file paths


See also Uploads for file/image upload path settings.

See also Skins for skins path settings.

Email settings
See also User Access: 



Email notification (Enotif) settings

 * Actual notifications for each user are defined in the options. You can change defaults with .



Localization

 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user
 * – maximum number of fallback languages per user

Language-specific

 * English


 * Arabic/Hindi

Debug/logging

 * See also: 



Profiling

 * this
 * this
 * this
 * this

ResourceLoader

 * See for more information.



Output


The following setting is no longer used in supported versions of MediaWiki, but still exists for backward compatibility

Cache



 * See: Interwiki for Interwiki cache settings.

File Cache
Settings for Server side file caching.

Memcached settings
Settings for configuring the Memcached memory-based object store (if you are using it) has more details.

Interwiki cache

 * See for more information.



Access
Wiki locking, blocking/banning, and some other related settings.



See for more methods and settings concerning access. See also for more information about $wgGroupPermissions, $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups, etc.


 * See User Access for User Access settings.

Uploads
Uploads have to be specially set up to be secure.



Shared uploads
These settings are kept for backward compatibility, see for the new setting, or  if you only need read access to images on Commons.

MIME types

 * This is not a configuration setting, but a global state variable. It should be used solely by thumb.php!
 * This is not a configuration setting, but a global state variable. It should be used solely by thumb.php!
 * This is not a configuration setting, but a global state variable. It should be used solely by thumb.php!
 * This is not a configuration setting, but a global state variable. It should be used solely by thumb.php!
 * This is not a configuration setting, but a global state variable. It should be used solely by thumb.php!
 * This is not a configuration setting, but a global state variable. It should be used solely by thumb.php!
 * This is not a configuration setting, but a global state variable. It should be used solely by thumb.php!



See also: 

Images

 * parameters for upload path
 * parameters for upload path
 * parameters for upload path
 * parameters for upload path
 * parameters for upload path
 * parameters for upload path
 * parameters for upload path
 * parameters for upload path
 * parameters for upload path
 * parameters for upload path
 * parameters for upload path
 * parameters for upload path
 * parameters for upload path

See also: 

ImageMagick
Set $wgUseImageMagick to true to use ImageMagick instead of the builtin functions.

Tidy
Tidy is an open source tool that cleans up broken HTML. You can use this to ensure that broken HTML in articles doesn't affect the layout of your wiki. While Tidy itself is going to be replaced, the configuration settings can still be used for the replacements.




 * See also: .

Recent changes
See also and



UDP updates
Send Recent changes updates via UDP. See: Manual:Simple IRC RC Bot



CDN / Squid
These settings configure MediaWiki when using a caching HTTP proxy server. They apply to caching using Varnish as well as Squid.