img_auth.php File Reference

The web entry point for serving non-public images to logged-in users. More...

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Variables
const	MW_ENTRY_POINT 'img_auth'
const	MW_NO_OUTPUT_COMPRESSION 1

Detailed Description

The web entry point for serving non-public images to logged-in users.

To use this, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Image_authorization

• Set $wgUploadDirectory to a non-public directory (not web accessible)
• Set $wgUploadPath to point to this file

Optional Parameters

• Set $wgImgAuthDetails = true if you want the reason the access was denied messages to be displayed instead of just the 403 error (doesn't work on IE anyway), otherwise it will only appear in error logs

  For security reasons, you usually don't want your user to know why access was denied, just that it was. If you want to change this, you can set $wgImgAuthDetails to 'true' in localsettings.php and it will give the user the reason why access was denied.

Your server needs to support REQUEST_URI or PATH_INFO; CGI-based configurations sometimes don't.

See also

MediaWiki\File Repository\AuthenticatedFileEntryPoint The implementation.

Note

GPL-2.0-or-later

Definition in file img_auth.php.

Variable Documentation

MW_ENTRY_POINT

const MW_ENTRY_POINT 'img_auth'

Definition at line 36 of file img_auth.php.

MW_NO_OUTPUT_COMPRESSION

const MW_NO_OUTPUT_COMPRESSION 1

Definition at line 35 of file img_auth.php.