| LogStore | 'text:editlog' | Experimental, keep the default |
| SecurityPolicy | None | class object hook for implementing security restrictions |
| allow_extended_names | 1 | true to enable ["non-standard wikiname"] markup |
| allow_subpages | 1 | true to enable hierarchical wiki features (see HelpOnEditing/SubPages) |
| allow_numeric_entities | 1 | if true, numeric entities like € for € are not escaped, but & and stuff still is |
| allow_xslt | 0 | true to enable 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 0) |
| allowed_actions | . | allow unsafe actions (list of strings) |
| attachments | None | If None, send attachments via CGI; else this has to be a dictionary with the path to attachment storage (key dir) and the equivalent URL prefix to that same dir (key url) |
| backtick_meta | 1 | true to enable `inline literal` markup |
| bang_meta | 0 | true to enable !NoWikiName markup |
| changed_time_fmt | ' %H:%M' | Time format used on RecentChanges for page edits within the last 24 hours |
| charset | 'iso-8859-1' | The encoding / character set your system uses |
| check_i18n | 0 | Set to 1 only in development systems, or on a translator's system |
| css_url | '/wiki-moinmoin/default.css' | URL for the default CSS definitions, make this a server-relative URL (start with a slash) |
| data_dir | './data/' | Path to the data directory, the default is OK if you place the data directory right besides your moin.cgi |
| 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) |
| edit_rows | 30 | Default height of the edit box |
| external_diff | 'diff' | Allows you to set an exact path to the command, or change the name to for example "gdiff" if GNU diff is not a native command in your UNIX flavour |
| html_head | META-Tag with Content-Type | Additional <HEAD> tags for all pages (see HelpOnSkins) |
| html_head_queries | META-Tag with "NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW" for robots | Additional <HEAD> tags for edit and action pages (html_head is sent, too; see HelpOnSkins) |
| httpd_docs | './wiki-moinmoin' | directory with public files, when using the stand-alone server |
| httpd_host | 'localhost' | hostname of the stand-alone server |
| httpd_port | 8080 | port of the stand-alone server |
| httpd_user | 'nobody' | user to run the the stand-alone server under (UNIX only) |
| interwikiname | None | InterWiki name (prefix, moniker) of the site, or None |
| logo_string | MoinMoin logo | URL path to the logo display in the upper-left corner of a page and used in RSS documents |
| lowerletters | Latin 1 alphabetic characters and digits | Lowercase letters, used to define what is a WikiName |
| mail_from | None | From: header used in sent mails |
| mail_smarthost | None | IP or domain name of an SMTP-enabled server; note that email features (notification, mailing of login data) works only if this variable is set |
| max_macro_size | 50 | Maximum size of some macro pages in KB, especially used to limits the size of RecentChanges; use 0 to disable that feature |
| navi_bar | large HTML fragment | Most important links in text form (/!\ this is a deprecated feature that will enventually disappear and be replaced by the bookmarks of UserPreferences) |
| nonexist_qm | 0 | Default for displaying WantedPages with a question mark, like in the original wiki (changeable by the user) |
| page_footer1 | Python Powered logo | Custom HTML markup sent before the system footer (see HelpOnSkins) |
| page_footer2 | "" | Custom HTML markup sent after the system footer (see HelpOnSkins) |
| page_form_ending | 'Form' | Ending name part of pages containing form definitions |
| page_front_page | 'FrontPage' | Name of the front page |
| page_icons | large HTML fragment | The top-right icons on each page |
| page_icons_up | icon for link to parent | This icon is shown on subpages and links to the parent page |
| page_local_spelling_words | 'LocalSpellingWords' | Name of the page containing user-provided spellchecker words |
| page_template_ending | 'Template' | Ending name part of pages containing templates for new pages |
| shared_intermap | None | path to a file containing global InterWiki definitions |
| shared_metadb | None | path to a file containing a global InterWiki pagelist |
| show_hosts | 1 | true to show hostname in RecentChanges |
| show_section_numbers | 1 | true to show section numbers in headings by default |
| show_timings | 0 | used for development |
| show_version | 0 | show MoinMoin's version at the bottom of each page |
| sitename | 'An Unnamed MoinMoin Wiki' | Short description of your wiki site, displayed below the logo on each page, and used in RSS documents as the channel title |
| title1 | None | HTML fragment before title area (see HelpOnSkins) |
| title2 | '<hr>' | HTML fragment after title area (see HelpOnSkins) |
| trail_size | 5 | Number of pages in the trail of visited pages |
| ua_spiders | htdig | A regex of HTTP_USER_AGENTs that should be excluded from logging |
| umask | 0777 | umask used on all open(), mkdir() and similar calls |
| upperletters | Latin 1 alphabetic characters | Uppercase letters, used to define what is a WikiName |
| 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 | '/wiki' | Used as the base URL for all public documents served by the wiki, especially the image files for the icons |
| url_schemas | . | additional URL schemas you want to have recognized (list of strings) |