The following table contains default values and a short description for most configuration variables. Most of these can be left at their defaults, those you need to change with every installation are listed in the sample wikiconfig.py that comes with the distribution.
You can also have a look at MoinMoin/config/multiconfig.py, class DefaultConfig for further information (that file has the builtin default configuration).
Variable name |
Default |
Description |
DesktopEdition |
False |
if True, give all local users special powers - only use this for a local desktop wiki! |
SecurityPolicy |
None |
Class object hook for implementing security restrictions |
acl_... |
... |
wiki-wide access control list definition (see HelpOnAccessControlLists) |
actions_excluded |
['xmlrpc', 'CopyPage', 'MyPages'] |
Exclude unwanted actions (list of strings) |
allow_xslt |
False |
if True, enables XSLT processing via 4Suite (note that this enables anyone with enough know-how to insert arbitrary HTML into your wiki, which is why it defaults to False) |
anonymous_session_lifetime |
None |
Lifetime in hours of the session cookie for anonymous users. See HelpOnSessions. |
antispam_master_url |
"http://master.moinmo.in/?action=xmlrpc2" |
where antispam security policy fetches spam pattern updates (if it is enabled) |
auth |
[MoinAuth()] |
list of auth objects, to be called in this order (see HelpOnAuthentication) |
auth_methods_trusted |
['http', 'xmlrpc_applytoken'] |
authentication methods for which users should be included in the special "Trusted" ACL group. |
bang_meta |
True |
if True, enable !NoWikiName markup |
cache_dir |
'<data_dir>/cache' |
Path to the farm wide cache directory. |
caching_formats |
['text_html'] |
output formats that are cached; set to [] to turn off caching (useful for development) |
changed_time_fmt |
'%H:%M' |
Time format used on RecentChanges for page edits within the last 24 hours |
chart_options |
None |
If you have gdchart, use something like chart_options = {'width': 720, 'height': 540} |
cookie_* |
... |
Change domain, path and lifetime of moin's session cookie, see HelpOnSessions. |
data_dir |
'./data/' |
Path to the data directory containing your (locally made) wiki pages. |
data_underlay_dir |
'./underlay/' |
Path to the underlay directory containing distribution system and help pages. |
date_fmt |
'%Y-%m-%d' |
System date format, used mostly in RecentChanges |
datetime_fmt |
'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S' |
Default format for dates and times (when the user has no preferences or chose the "default" date format) |
default_markup |
'wiki' |
Default page parser / format (name of module in MoinMoin.parser) |
docbook_html_dir |
... |
Path to the directory with the Docbook to HTML XSLT files (optional, used by the docbook parser). The default value is correct for Debian Etch. |
edit_bar |
['Edit', ..., 'ActionsMenu'] |
list of edit bar entries |
editor_default |
'text' |
Editor to use by default, 'text' or 'gui' |
editor_force |
False |
if True, force using the default editor |
editor_ui |
'freechoice' |
Editor choice shown on the user interface, 'freechoice' or 'theonepreferred' |
editor_quickhelp |
{'wiki':"...", ...} |
Quickhelp provided at the bottom of edit pages. To customize, specify a dictionary with key matching default_markup (e.g. 'wiki') and give a string value containing wiki markup |
edit_locking |
'warn 10' |
Editor locking policy: None, 'warn <timeout in minutes>', or 'lock <timeout in minutes>' |
edit_rows |
20 |
Default height of the edit box |
hacks |
{} |
for use by moin development |
history_count |
(100, 200) |
number of revisions shown for info/history action (default_count_shown, max_count_shown) |
hosts_deny |
[] |
List of denied IPs; if an IP ends with a dot, it denies a whole subnet (class A, B or C) |
html_head* |
... |
Additional <HEAD> tags, see HelpOnThemes. |
html_pagetitle |
None |
Allows you to set a specific HTML page title (if None, it defaults to the value of sitename) |
interwikiname |
None |
InterWiki name (prefix, moniker) of the site, or None |
interwiki_preferred |
[] |
In dialogues, show those wikis at the top of the list. |
language_default |
'en' |
Default language for user interface and page content, see HelpOnLanguages! |
language_ignore_browser |
False |
if True, ignore user's browser language settings, see HelpOnLanguages! |
logo_string |
sitename |
The wiki logo top of page, HTML is allowed (<img> is possible as well) [Unicode] |
log_reverse_dns_lookups |
True |
if True, do a reverse DNS lookup on page SAVE. If your DNS is broken, set this to False to speed up SAVE. |
log_timing |
False |
if True, add timing infos to the log output to analyse load conditions |
mail_... |
... |
Sending and receiving of email, see /EmailSupport. |
mimetypes_xss_protect |
['text/html', ...] |
"content-disposition: inline" isn't used for them when a user downloads such attachments |
mimetypes_embed |
[...] |
mimetypes that can be embedded by EmbedObject macro |
navi_bar |
[u'RecentChanges', |
Most important page names. Users can add more names in their quick links in user preferences. To link to URL, use u"[url link title]", to use a shortened name for long page name, use u"[LongLongPageName title]". To use page names with spaces, use u"[page_name_with_spaces any title]" [list of Unicode strings] |
nonexist_qm |
False |
if True, display links to non-existing pages with a question mark by default, like in the original wiki (can be changed in userprefs) |
page_category_regex |
ur'(?P<all>Category(?P<key>\S+))' |
Pagenames exactly matching this regex are regarded as Wiki categories [Unicode] |
page_credits |
[...] |
list with html fragments with logos or strings for crediting. |
page_dict_regex |
ur'(?P<all>(?P<key>\S+)Dict)' |
Pagenames exactly matching this regex are regarded as pages containing variable dictionary definitions [Unicode] |
page_front_page |
u'HelpOnLanguages' |
Name of the front page. We don't expect you to keep the default. Just read HelpOnLanguages in case you're wondering... [Unicode] |
page_group_regex |
ur'(?P<all>(?P<key>\S+)Group)' |
Pagenames exactly matching this regex are regarded as pages containing group definitions [Unicode] |
page_header* / page_footer* |
... |
Custom HTML markup sent by the theme, see HelpOnThemes. |
page_iconbar |
["view", ...] |
list of icons to show in iconbar, valid values are only those in page_icons_table. Available only in classic theme. |
page_icons_table |
{...} |
dict of {'iconname': (url, title, icon-img-key), ...}. Available only in classic theme. |
page_license_enabled |
False |
if True, show a license hint in page editor. |
page_license_page |
u'WikiLicense' |
Page linked from the license hint. [Unicode] |
page_local_spelling_words |
u'LocalSpellingWords' |
Name of the page containing user-provided spellchecker words [Unicode] |
page_template_regex |
ur'(?P<all>(?P<key>\S+)Template)' |
Pagenames exactly matching this regex are regarded as pages containing templates for new pages [Unicode] |
password_checker |
func(username, password) |
checks whether a password is acceptable (default check is length >= 6, at least 4 different chars, no keyboard sequence, not username used somehow (you can switch this off by using None) |
quicklinks_default |
[] |
List of preset quicklinks for a newly created user accounts. Existing accounts are not affected by this option whereas changes in navi_bar do always affect existing accounts. Preset quicklinks can be removed by the user in the user preferences menu, navi_bar settings not. |
refresh |
None |
refresh = (minimum_delay_s, targets_allowed) enables use of #refresh 5 PageName processing instruction, targets_allowed must be either 'internal' or 'external' |
rss_cache |
60 |
suggested caching time for RecentChanges RSS, in seconds |
search_results_per_page |
25 |
Number of hits shown per page in the search results |
secrets |
'...' |
Long, random, secret string used by some subsystems (Default: auto-generate from some other config settings) |
session_handler |
DefaultSessionHandler() |
Session handler, see HelpOnSessions |
shared_intermap |
None |
Path to a file containing global InterWiki definitions (or a list of such filenames) |
show_hosts |
True |
if True, show host names and IPs. Set to False to hide them. |
show_interwiki |
False |
if True, let the theme display your interwiki name |
show_names |
True |
if True, show user names in the revision history and on RecentChanges. Set to False to hide them. |
show_section_numbers |
0 |
1 to show section numbers in headings by default |
show_timings |
False |
if True, show some timing values at bottom of a page |
show_version |
False |
if True, show moin's version at the bottom of a page |
sistersites |
[] |
list of tuples ('WikiName', 'sisterpagelist_fetch_url') |
sitename |
u'Untitled Wiki' |
Short description of your wiki site, displayed below the logo on each page, and used in RSS documents as the channel title [Unicode] |
stylesheets |
[(media, csshref), ...] |
List of tuples (media, csshref) to insert after theme css, before user css, see HelpOnThemes. |
subscribed_pages_default |
[] |
List of pagenames used for presetting page subscriptions for newly created user accounts. |
superuser |
[] |
List of trusted user names with wiki system administration super powers (not to be confused with ACL admin rights!). Used for e.g. making full backups, software installation, language installation via SystemPagesSetup and more. See also HelpOnSuperUser. |
supplementation_page |
False |
if True, show a link to the supplementation page in the theme |
supplementation_page_name |
u'Discussion' |
default name of the supplementation (sub)page [unicode] |
supplementation_page_template |
u'DiscussionTemplate' |
default template used for creation of the supplementation page [unicode] |
surge_* |
... |
Surge protection tries to deny clients causing too much load/traffic, see /SurgeProtection. |
textchas* |
... |
Spam protection setup using site-specific questions/answers, see HelpOnTextChas. |
theme_default |
'modern' |
the name of the theme that is used by default (see HelpOnThemes) |
theme_force |
False |
if True, do not allow to change the theme |
traceback_show |
True |
if True, show debug tracebacks to users when moin crashes |
traceback_log_dir |
None |
Directory to store tracebacks or None. |
trail_size |
5 |
Number of pages in the trail of visited pages |
tz_offset |
0.0 |
default time zone offset in hours from UTC |
ua_spiders |
...|google|wget|... |
A regex of HTTP_USER_AGENTs that should be excluded from logging |
unzip_attachments_count |
101 |
max. number of files which are extracted from the zip file |
unzip_attachments_space |
200000000 |
max. total amount of bytes can be used to unzip files [bytes] |
unzip_single_file_size |
2000000 |
max. size of a single file in the archive which will be extracted [bytes] |
url_mappings |
{} |
lookup table to remap URL prefixes (dict of 'prefix': 'replacement'); especially useful in intranets, when whole trees of externally hosted documents move around |
url_prefix_static |
'/moin_static170' |
used as the base URL for icons, css, etc. - includes the moin version number and changes on every release. This replaces the deprecated and sometimes confusing url_prefix = '/wiki' setting. |
url_prefix_action |
None |
Use 'action' to enable action URL generation to be compatible with robots.txt. It will generate .../action/info/PageName?action=info then. Recommended for internet wikis. |
userprefs_disabled |
[] |
Disable the listed user preferences plugins |
user_autocreate |
False |
if True, user accounts are created automatically (see HelpOnAuthentication). |
user_dir |
<data_dir>/user |
share user data between multiple wikis. See HelpOnUserHandling |
user_email_unique |
True |
if True, check email addresses for uniqueness and don't accept duplicates. |
user_jid_unique |
True |
if True, check Jabber IDs for uniqueness and don't accept duplicates. |
user_homewiki |
Self |
interwiki name of the wiki where the user home pages are located (useful if you have many users). You could even link to nonwiki "user pages" if the wiki username is in the target URL. |
user_checkbox_* / user_form_* |
... |
Disable / remove / set defaults for user preferences, see /UserPreferences. |
xapian_* |
... |
Configuration of the Xapian based indexed search, see HelpOnXapian. |
Some values can only be set from MoinMoin/config/__init__.py (part of the moin code and thus GLOBALLY changing behaviour of all your wikis), but not from the individual wiki's config - you should only touch them if you know what you are doing:
charset |
'utf-8' |
the encoding / character set used by the wiki |
lowerletters |
ucs-2 lowercase letters |
Lowercase letters, used to define what is a WikiName |
smileys |
[...] |
a list of smiley markups moin supports - image and image sizes are defined in the theme code. |
umask |
0770 |
umask used by moin, the default gives rights to owner and group, but not to world. |
upperletters |
ucs-2 uppercase letters |
uppercase letters, used to define what is a WikiName |
url_schemas |
['http', 'ftp', ...] |
URL schemas you want to have recognized |
Do not change config.charset. It is not tested and we can't support this.