The main configuration file is *includes/config.inc.php*. You can overrides all variables that main configuration file contain in your own configuration file *includes/config.local.php*. This file will be automatically included if present.
> **Note :** In the configuration files, to refer to the application root directory, you could use the variable `$root_dir_path` (that does not contain the trailing slash).
**The first thing you have to configured is the public root URL of the API in `$public_root_url` variable.** This URL could be relative (default) or absolute.
> **Note :** You also could adapt _$main_pagetitle_ and _$included_css_files_ to your situation.
## Data/files directories :
All application data are, by default, in _data_ sub-directory. You could configure it by using the following variables :
-`$data_dir` : Root DATA directory (Default : _data_)
-`$upload_tmp_dir` : Temporary directory for PHP uploading files : when uploading files, PHP will stored files in this directory before application move it to their final destination (Default : _$data_dir/uploading_)
Default log files path is *data/logs/app.log* (and *data/logs/cli.log* for CLI tool). This could be configured using `$log_file` configuration variable. You can also set the log level using `$log_level` variable *(default value = "INFO", see config.inc.php).*
## Database configuration :
The database is used to store demo items information. For this reason, a basic *Sqlite* database could be used and is the default database backend. However, you can use any database backend supported by the [PHP PDO abstraction system](http://php.net/pdo).
The database connection is configured using the following variables :
-`$dn_dsn` : the *Data Source Name (DSN)* depending on your database backend.
-`$db_user` : the database username.
-`$db_pwd` : the database password.
-`$db_options` : the database connection options (see your PHP PDO Driver documentation). By default, this variable value is an empty array ("`array()`").
-`$db_date_format` : the date format as retreive from the database.
-`$db_datetime_format` : the date and time format as retreive from the database.
> **Note :** You could find some configuration examples for _PostgreSQL_, _MariaDB / MySQL_ or _Sqlite_ in _config.inc.php_ file. Initial _SQL_ files could also be found in _data_ directory.
## E-mail configuration :
This application send some mail by using [PEAR Mail library](http://pear.php.net/package/Mail). The path of this library must be specify using `$php_mail_path`. The default value corresponding to the version provided by *php-mail* Debian package.
This library support different methods to send mail and the default one is *SMTP*. This method require that the [PEAR Net_SMTP library](http://pear.php.net/package/Net_SMTP) is also installed on the system. You could configure another method sending method using the variable `$mail_send_method` (see comment in *config.inc.php* file or [the PEAR Mail library documentation](http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.factory.php)).
Depending on the sending method choose, some options are available to configure their usage (see comment in *config.inc.php* file or [the PEAR Mail library documentation](http://pear.php.net/manual/en/package.mail.mail.factory.php)) and could be configured using `$mail_send_params` variable.
To forge e-mail, this application use [PEAR Mail_Mime library](http://pear.php.net/package/Mail_Mime). The path of this library must be specify using `$php_mail_mime_path`. The default value corresponding to the version provided by *php-mail-mime* Debian package.
Some other variables exist to manage the email sending by the application :
-`$mail_headers` : an PHP array of default headers add to mail sent by the application
-`$mail_sender` : the email address of the sender of all emails sent by the application
-`$mail_catch_all` : for debugging purpose, you can using this variable to specify an email address that will received all email sent by the application in place of the original recipient
If you use a Web stats tool that need to include a piece of JS code in all page like [Matomo](https://matomo.org/), you could defined the `$webstats_js_code` variable.
## Sentry integration
If you want to enable the [Sentry](https://sentry.io) integration, you have to define the `$sentry_dsn`. This integration permit to report PHP errors (see `$sentry_php_error_types`) and exception as issues and to monitor performance of the application (see `$sentry_traces_sample_rate`).
