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
11 Main access point. It handles the most of requests.
12 See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Index.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.
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.
24 Used by ResourceLoader to serve minified, concatenated and gzipped CSS and JS.
27 Returns a OpenSearch description document (see http://www.opensearch.org/)
28 that points to the search engines of the wiki.
31 Allow users to see the profiling information that are stored in the
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 $wgProfileToDatabase to true 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.
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 .
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.
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. To use these files, you have to modify $wgScriptExtension to
53 '.php5' is LocalSettings.php but it is already done by the config script if you
54 used mw-config/index.php5 for installation.