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 information.
  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     Simple interface for displaying request profiles that were stored in the
  32     database. For more information, see the documentation in that file, and at
  33     https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Profiling.
  34
  35   thumb.php
  36     Script used to resize images if it is configured to be done when the web
  37     browser requests the image and not when generating the page. This script can
  38     be used as a 404 handler to generate image thumbs when they don't exist.