Documentation/config.md

# Configuration

The `gitiles.config` file supporting the site contains several configuration
options.

[TOC]

## Core configuration

### Fixed time zone

By default dates are formatted including the local user time zone as that
matches git tools. Some users/administrators may prefer normalizing to a
particular timezone so times are directly comparable without doing timezone
arithmetic.

Setting `fixedTimeZone` to a valid Java TimeZone ID causes all dates in the UI
to be implicitly converted to this timezone, and the now-redundant timezone
offset to be dropped from the output.

```
[gitiles]
  fixedTimeZone = UTC
```

### Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

Gitiles sets the `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header to the
HTTP origin of the client if the client's domain matches a regular
expression defined in `allowOriginRegex`.

```
[gitiles]
  allowOriginRegex = http://localhost
```

By default `allowOriginRegex` is unset, denying all cross-origin requests.

## Markdown

### Disabling markdown

Markdown can be completely disabled by setting render to false.

```
[markdown]
  render = false
```

### Markdown size

Markdown files are limited by default to 5 MiB of input text
per file. This limit is configurable, but should not be raised
beyond available memory.

```
[markdown]
  inputLimit = 5M
```

### Image size

Referenced [images are inlined](#Images) as base64 encoded URIs.
The image limit places an upper bound on the byte size of input.

```
[markdown]
  imageLimit = 256K
```

### Extensions

The following extensions can be enabled/disabled in the markdown
section:

* `githubFlavor`: enable extensions that mirror GitHub Flavor
  Markdown behavior.  Default is true.

* `autolink`: automatically convert plain URLs and email
  addresses into links. Default follows `githubFlavor`.

* `blocknote`: Gitiles style note/promo/aside blocks to raise
  awareness to important content. Default false.

* `ghthematicbreak`: accept `--` for `<hr>`, like GitHub Flavor
  Markdown.  Default follows `githubFlavor`.

* `multicolumn`: Gitiles extension to layout content in a 12 cell
   grid, delinated by section headers. Default false.

* `namedanchor`: Gitiles extension to extract named anchors using
  `#{id}` syntax. Default false.

* `safehtml`: Gitiles extension to accept very limited HTML; for
   security reasons all other HTML is dropped regardless of this
   setting.  Default follows `githubFlavor`.

* `smartquote`: Gitiles extension to convert single and double quote
  ASCII characters to Unicode smart quotes when in prose.  Default
  false.

* `strikethrough`: strikethrough text with GitHub Flavor Markdown
  style `~~`.  Default follows `githubFlavor`.

* `tables`: format tables with GitHub Flavor Markdown.  Default
  follows `githubFlavor`.

* `toc`: Gitiles extension to replace `[TOC]` in a paragraph by itself
  with a server-side generated table of contents extracted from section
  headers.  Default true.

### IFrames

IFrame support requires `markdown.safehtml` to be true.

IFrame source URLs can be whitelisted by providing a list of allowed
URLs. URLs ending with a `/` are treated as prefixes, allowing any source
URL beginning with that prefix.

```
[markdown]
  allowiframe = https://google.com/
```

URLs not ending with a `/` are treated as exact matches, and only those
source URLs will be allowed.


```
[markdown]
  allowiframe = https://example.com
  allowiframe = https://example.org
```

If the list has a single entry with the value `true`, all source URLs
will be allowed.


```
[markdown]
  allowiframe = true
```

## Google Analytics

[Google Analytics](https://www.google.com/analytics/) can be
enabled on every rendered markdown page by adding the Property ID
to the configuration file:

```
[google]
  analyticsId = UA-XXXX-Y
```