: Mediawiki custom temp directory = safe? I ran unto an issue when upgrading from 1.24.0 to 1.27.0. Since I'm on a shared server and have multiple Mediawiki installations, the system temp folder

I ran unto an issue when upgrading from 1.24.0 to 1.27.0.

Since I'm on a shared server and have multiple Mediawiki installations, the system temp folder is being shared across them all. This is causing a MWException error on page load. Obviously this will cause problems since temp content of one wiki will overwrite the content of another.

So I've declared a custom temp directory: (Paste into LocalSettings.php)

$wgTmpDirectory = "$IP/images/temp";

While this fixes the issue, I'm not sure it's a secure practice. I see many other people using this fix... But is it safe to have the temp folder PUBLICLY visible?

This documentation is all I can find explaining what is dumped into the temp folder. And here is a bug report of the root issue.

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I believe that I've stumbled across a solid answer.

Instead we can point to the default tmp directory by using $wgUploadDirectory. Then we can dump the temp files into a unique sub-directory.

Custom temp directory code: (Paste into LocalSettings.php)

$wgTmpDirectory = "{$wgUploadDirectory}/tmp/uniquename";

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