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EXT - Extension manager configuration

The following configuration variables can be used to configure settings for the Extension manager:

Attention

Extension specific configuration should be stored in $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXTENSION'] and not here.

Note

The configuration values listed here are keys in the global PHP array $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXT'] .

This variable can be set in one of the following files:

$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXT']['allowGlobalInstall']

allowGlobalInstall

Path: $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXT']
type: bool
Default: false

If set, global extensions in typo3/ext/ are allowed to be installed, updated and deleted etc.

$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXT']['allowLocalInstall']

allowLocalInstall

Path: $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXT']
type: bool
Default: true

If set, local extensions in typo3conf/ext/ are allowed to be installed, updated and deleted etc.

excludeForPackaging

$GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXT']['excludeForPackaging']

Path: $GLOBALS['TYPO3_CONF_VARS']['EXT']
type: list
Default: '(?:\\.(?!htaccess$).*|.*~|.*\\.swp|.*\\.bak|node_modules|bower_components)'

List of directories and files which will not be packaged into extensions nor taken into account otherwise by the Extension Manager. Perl regular expression syntax!