- PHP Constants
- General Config
- Database Config
- Data Caching Config
- Guzzle Config
- Overriding Volume Settings
- URL Rules
- Redactor Configs
- HTML Purifier
- Application Config
Your web/index.php
file can specify a few PHP constants, which Craft’s bootstrap script will check for while loading and configuring Craft.
CRAFT_BASE_PATH
– The path to the base directory that Craft will look forconfig/
,templates/
, and other directories within by default. (It is assumed to be the parent of thevendor/
directory by default.)CRAFT_COMPOSER_PATH
– The path tocomposer.json
. (It is assumed to live within the base directory by default.)CRAFT_CONFIG_PATH
– The path to theconfig/
directory. (It is assumed to live within the base directory by default.)CRAFT_CONTENT_MIGRATIONS_PATH
– The path to themigrations/
directory used to store content migrations. (It is assumed to live within the base directory by default.)CRAFT_ENVIRONMENT
– The environment ID that multi-environment configs can reference when defining their environment-specific config values. ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']
will be used by default.)CRAFT_LICENSE_KEY_PATH
– The path that Craft should store its license key file, including its filename. (It will be stored aslicense.key
within yourconfig/
directory by default.)CRAFT_PLUGINS_PATH
– The path to theplugins/
directory used to store manually-installed plugins. (It is assumed to live within the base directory by default.)CRAFT_SITE
– The Site handle or ID that Craft should be serving from thisindex.php
file.CRAFT_STORAGE_PATH
– The path to thestorage/
directory. (It is assumed to live within the base directory by default.)CRAFT_TEMPLATES_PATH
– The path to thetemplates/
directory. (It is assumed to live within the base directory by default.)CRAFT_TRANSLATIONS_PATH
– The path to thetranslations/
directory. (It is assumed to live within the base directory by default.)CRAFT_VENDOR_PATH
– The path to thevendor/
directory. (It is assumed to live 4 directories up from the bootstrap script by default.)
Craft supports several general configuration settings. You can see a list of them all in vendor/craftcms/cms/src/config/GeneralConfig.php
, and you can override the values in your config/general.php
file.
Craft supports several database configuration settings. You can see a list of them all in vendor/craftcms/cms/src/config/DbConfig.php
, and you can override the values in your config/db.php
file.
By default, Craft will store data caches in the storage/runtime/cache/
folder. You can configure Craft to use an alternative cache storage by overriding the cache
application component from config/app.php
.
<?php
return [
'components' => [
'cache' => [
'class' => yii\caching\ApcCache::class,
'useApcu' => true,
],
],
];
Here are a couple common examples of cache storage configurations:
<?php
return [
'components' => [
'cache' => [
'class' => yii\caching\MemCache::class,
'useMemcached' => true,
'username' => getenv('MEMCACHED_USERNAME'),
'password' => getenv('MEMCACHED_PASSWORD'),
'defaultDuration' => 86400,
'servers' => [
[
'host' => 'localhost',
'persistent' => true,
'port' => 11211,
'retryInterval' => 15,
'status' => true,
'timeout' => 15,
'weight' => 1,
],
],
],
],
];
To use Redis cache storage, you will first need to install the yii2-redis library. Then configure Craft’s cache
component to use it:
<?php
return [
'components' => [
'cache' => [
'class' => yii\redis\Cache::class,
'defaultDuration' => 86400,
'redis' => [
'hostname' => 'localhost',
'port' => 6379,
'password' => getenv('REDIS_PASSWORD'),
'database' => 0,
],
],
],
];
Craft uses Guzzle 6 whenever creating HTTP requests, such as:
- when checking for Craft updates
- when sending in a support request from the Craft Support widget
- when loading RSS feeds from the Feeds widget
- when working with assets on remote volumes, like Amazon S3
You can customize the config settings Guzzle uses when sending these requests by creating a guzzle.php
file in your config/
folder. The file should return an array, with your config overrides.
<?php
return [
'headers' => ['Foo' => 'Bar'],
'query' => ['testing' => '123'],
'auth' => ['username', 'password'],
'proxy' => 'tcp://localhost:80',
];
The options defined here will be passed into new GuzzleHttp\Client
instances. See Guzzle’s documentation for a list of available options.
If you would prefer to define volume settings with a config file, you can do that from config/volumes.php
. The file should return an array whose keys map to your volume handles, and values are nested arrays that define the overridden setting values.
{note} You must create your volumes within the Control Panel before Craft will start checking
config/volumes.php
for overrides.
return [
'siteAssets' => [
'path' => getenv('ASSETS_BASE_PATH').'/site',
'url' => getenv('ASSETS_BASE_URL').'/site',
],
'companyLogos' => [
'path' => getenv('ASSETS_BASE_PATH').'/logos',
'url' => getenv('ASSETS_BASE_URL').'/logos',
],
];
You can define custom URL rules in config/routes.php
, which will get merged in with any routes you’ve defined on the Settings → Routes page in the Control Panel.
Craft supports a custom syntax for routing requests to a template, rather than a controller action:
return [
'blog/archive/<year:\d{4}>' => ['template' => 'blog/_archive'],
];
You can customize the Redactor configurations that are available to Rich Text fields by saving them as .json
files within your config/redactor/
directory. The available config settings are listed in Redactor’s documentation.
These .json
files must contain valid JSON. That means:
- No comments
- All object properties (the config setting names) must be wrapped in double quotes
- All strings must use double quotes rather than single quotes
// Bad:
{
/* interesting comment */
buttons: ['bold', 'italic']
}
// Good:
{
"buttons": ["bold", "italic"]
}
You can customize the HTML Purifier configurations that are available to Rich Text fields by saving them as .json
files within your config/htmlpurifier/
directory. The available config settings are listed in HTML Purifier’s documentation.
{
"HTML.AllowedCommentsRegexp": "p, div"
}
You can customize Craft’s entire application configuration from config/app.php
. Any items returned by that array will get merged into the main application configuration array.
To override the mailer
component config (which is responsible for sending emails), do this in config/app.php
:
<?php
return [
'components' => [
'mailer' => function() {
// Get the stored email settings
$settings = Craft::$app->systemSettings->getEmailSettings();
// Override the transport adapter class
$settings->transportType = craft\mailgun\MailgunAdapter::class;
// Override the transport adapter settings
$settings->transportSettings = [
'domain' => 'foo.com',
'apiKey' => 'key-xxxxxxxxxx',
];
return craft\helpers\MailerHelper::createMailer($settings);
},
// ...
],
// ...
];