docs/scripts.txt

   1 scripts.txt
   2
   3 MediaWiki primary scripts are in the root directory of the software. Users
   4 should only use these scripts to access the wiki. There are also some .php that
   5 aren't primary scripts but helper files and won't work if they are accessed
   6 directly by the web.
   7
   8 Primary scripts:
   9
  10   index.php
  11     Main access point. It handles the most of requests.
  12     See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Index.php
  13
  14   api.php
  15     Script to provide an API for bots to fetch content and informations about
  16     the site and also modify it. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API
  17     for more informations.
  18
  19   img_auth.php
  20     Script that only serve images to logged in users. To configure the wiki
  21     to use that script, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Image_Authorisation.
  22
  23   load.php
  24     Used by ResourceLoader to serve minified, concatenated and gzipped CSS and JS.
  25
  26   opensearch_desc.php
  27     Returns a OpenSearch description document (see http://www.opensearch.org/)
  28     that points to the search engines of the wiki.
  29
  30   profileinfo.php
  31     Allow users to see the profiling information that are stored in the
  32     database.
  33
  34     To save the profiling information in the database (required to use this
  35     script), you have to modify StartProfiler.php to use the Profiler class and
  36     not the stub profiler which is enabled by default.
  37     You will also need to set $wgProfiler['output'] to 'db' in LocalSettings.php
  38     to force the profiler to save the informations in the database and apply the
  39     maintenance/archives/patch-profiling.sql patch to the database.
  40
  41     To enable the profileinfo.php itself, you'll need to set $wgDBadminuser
  42     and $wgDBadminpassword in your LocalSettings.php, as well as $wgEnableProfileInfo
  43     See also https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Profiling .
  44
  45   thumb.php
  46     Script used to resize images if it is configured to be done when the web
  47     browser requests the image and not when generating the page. This script can
  48     be used as a 404 handler to generate image thumbs when they don't exist.
  49
  50 There is also a file with a .php5 extension for each script. They can be used if
  51 the web server needs a .php5 to run the file with the PHP 5 engine and runs .php
  52 scripts with PHP 4. You should not use them anymore.