scripts.txt MediaWiki primary scripts are in the root directory of the software. Users should only use these scripts to access the wiki. There are also some .php that aren't primary scripts but helper files and won't work if they are accessed directly by the web. Primary scripts: index.php Main access point. It handles the most of requests. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Index.php api.php Script to provide an API for bots to fetch content and informations about the site and also modify it. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API for more information. img_auth.php Script that only serve images to logged in users. To configure the wiki to use that script, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Image_Authorisation. load.php Used by ResourceLoader to serve minified, concatenated and gzipped CSS and JS. opensearch_desc.php Returns a OpenSearch description document (see http://www.opensearch.org/) that points to the search engines of the wiki. profileinfo.php Simple interface for displaying request profiles that were stored in the database. For more information, see the documentation in that file, and at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Profiling. thumb.php Script used to resize images if it is configured to be done when the web browser requests the image and not when generating the page. This script can be used as a 404 handler to generate image thumbs when they don't exist.