Configuration

All settings are stored in settings.py (as is usual for Django).

Note

After changing any of these settings, you need to restart Weblate — both WSGI and Celery processes.

In case it is run as mod_wsgi, you need to restart Apache to reload the configuration.

See also

Please also check Django’s documentation for parameters configuring Django itself.

ADMINS_CONTACT

Configures where contact form sends e-mails. If not configured, e-mail addresses from ADMINS are used.

Configure this as a list of e-mail addresses:

ADMINS_CONTACT = ["admin@example.com", "support@example.com"]

See also

CONTACT_FORM, ADMINS

AKISMET_API_KEY

Weblate can use Akismet to check incoming anonymous suggestions for spam. Visit akismet.com to purchase an API key and associate it with a site.

ANONYMOUS_USER_NAME

Username of users that are not signed in.

See also

Access control

AUDITLOG_EXPIRY

How many days Weblate should keep audit logs (which contain info about account activity).

Defaults to 180 days.

AUTH_LOCK_ATTEMPTS

Maximum number of failed authentication attempts before rate limiting is applied.

This is currently applied in the following locations:

  • Sign in. Deletes the account password, preventing the user from signing in without requesting a new password.

  • Password reset. Prevents new e-mails from being sent, avoiding spamming users with too many password-reset attempts.

Defaults to 10.

See also

Rate limiting

AUTO_UPDATE

Updates all repositories on a daily basis.

Hint

Useful if you are not using Notification hooks to update Weblate repositories automatically.

Note

On/off options exist in addition to string selection for backward compatibility.

The options are:

"none"

No daily updates.

"remote" also False

Only update remotes.

"full" also True

Update remotes and merge working copy.

Note

This requires that Background tasks using Celery is working, and will take effect after it is restarted.

AVATAR_URL_PREFIX

Prefix for constructing avatar URLs as: ${AVATAR_URL_PREFIX}/avatar/${MAIL_HASH}?${PARAMS}. The following services are known to work:

Gravatar (default), as per https://gravatar.com/

AVATAR_URL_PREFIX = 'https://www.gravatar.com/'

Libravatar, as per https://www.libravatar.org/

AVATAR_URL_PREFIX = 'https://www.libravatar.org/'

AUTH_TOKEN_VALID

How long the authentication token and temporary password from password reset e-mails is valid for. Set in number of seconds, defaulting to 172800 (2 days).

AUTH_PASSWORD_DAYS

How many days Weblate rejects reusing a previously used password for a user.

The checking is based on the audit log, AUDITLOG_EXPIRY needs to be at least same as this.

Note

Password changes made prior to Weblate 2.15 will not be accounted for in this policy.

Defaults to 180 days.

AUTOFIX_LIST

List of automatic fixes to apply when saving a string.

Note

Provide a fully-qualified path to the Python class that implements the autofixer interface.

Available fixes:

weblate.trans.autofixes.whitespace.SameBookendingWhitespace

Matches whitespace at the start and end of the string to the source.

weblate.trans.autofixes.chars.ReplaceTrailingDotsWithEllipsis

Replaces trailing dots (…) if the source string has a corresponding ellipsis (…).

weblate.trans.autofixes.chars.RemoveZeroSpace

Removes zero-width space characters if the source does not contain any.

weblate.trans.autofixes.chars.RemoveControlChars

Removes control characters if the source does not contain any.

weblate.trans.autofixes.chars.DevanagariDanda

Replaces sentence full stop in Bangla by the devanagari danda character.

weblate.trans.autofixes.html.BleachHTML

Removes unsafe HTML markup from strings flagged as safe-html (see Unsafe HTML).

You can select which ones to use:

AUTOFIX_LIST = (
    "weblate.trans.autofixes.whitespace.SameBookendingWhitespace",
    "weblate.trans.autofixes.chars.ReplaceTrailingDotsWithEllipsis",
)

BACKGROUND_TASKS

Added in version 4.5.2.

Defines how often lengthy maintenance tasks should be triggered for a component.

Right now this controls:

Possible choices:

  • monthly (this is the default)

  • weekly

  • daily

  • never

Note

Increasing the frequency is not recommended when Weblate contains thousands of components.

BASIC_LANGUAGES

Added in version 4.4.

List of languages to offer users for starting a new translation. When not specified, a built-in list is used (which includes all commonly used languages, but without country specific variants).

This only limits non privileged users to add unwanted languages. Project admins are still presented with the full selection of languages defined in Weblate.

Note

This does not define new languages for Weblate — it only filters existing ones in the database.

Example:

BASIC_LANGUAGES = {"cs", "it", "ja", "en"}

BORG_EXTRA_ARGS

Added in version 4.9.

You can pass additional arguments to borg create when built-in backups are triggered.

Example:

BORG_EXTRA_ARGS = ["--exclude", "vcs/"]

CACHE_DIR

Added in version 4.16.

Directory where Weblate stores cache files. Defaults to cache subfolder in DATA_DIR.

Change this to local or temporary filesystem if DATA_DIR is on a network filesystem.

The Docker container uses a separate volume for this, see Docker container volumes.

The following subdirectories usually exist:

fonts

font-config cache for Managing fonts.

avatar

Cached user avatars, see Avatars.

static

Default location for static Django files, specified by STATIC_ROOT. See Serving static files.

tesseract

OCR trained data for Visual context for strings.

CSP_SCRIPT_SRC, CSP_IMG_SRC, CSP_CONNECT_SRC, CSP_STYLE_SRC, CSP_FONT_SRC, CSP_FORM_SRC

Customize Content-Security-Policy header for Weblate. The header is automatically generated based on enabled integrations with third-party services (Matomo, Google Analytics, Sentry, …).

All these default to empty list.

Example:

# Enable Cloudflare Javascript optimizations
CSP_SCRIPT_SRC = ["ajax.cloudflare.com"]

CHECK_LIST

List of quality checks to perform on a translation.

Note

Provide a fully-qualified path to the Python class implementing the check interface.

Adjust the list of checks to include ones relevant to you.

All built-in Quality checks are turned on by default, from where you can change these settings. By default they are commented out in Sample configuration so that default values are used. New checks are then carried out for each new Weblate version.

You can turn off all checks:

CHECK_LIST = ()

You can turn on only a few:

CHECK_LIST = (
    "weblate.checks.chars.BeginNewlineCheck",
    "weblate.checks.chars.EndNewlineCheck",
    "weblate.checks.chars.MaxLengthCheck",
)

Note

Changing this setting only affects newly changed translations. Existing checks will still be stored in the database. To also apply changes to the stored translations, run updatechecks.

COMMENT_CLEANUP_DAYS

Delete comments after a given number of days. Defaults to None, meaning no deletion at all.

COMMIT_PENDING_HOURS

Number of hours between committing pending changes by way of the background task.

CONTACT_FORM

Added in version 4.6.

Configures how e-mail from the contact form is being sent. Choose a configuration that matches the configuration of your mail server.

"reply-to"

The sender is used in as Reply-To, this is the default behaviour.

"from"

The sender is used in as From. Your mail server needs to allow sending such e-mails.

See also

ADMINS_CONTACT

DATA_DIR

The folder Weblate stores all data in. It contains links to VCS repositories, a fulltext index and various configuration files for external tools.

The following subdirectories usually exist:

home

Home directory used for invoking scripts.

ssh

SSH keys and configuration.

media

Default location for Django media files, specified by MEDIA_ROOT. Contains uploaded screenshots, see Visual context for strings.

vcs

Version-control repositories for translations.

backups

Daily backup data. Please check Dumped data for backups for details.

fonts:

User-uploaded fonts, see Managing fonts.

cache

Various caches. Can be placed elsewhere using CACHE_DIR.

The Docker container uses a separate volume for this, see Docker container volumes.

Note

This directory has to be writable by Weblate. Running it as uWSGI means the www-data user should have write access to it.

The easiest way to achieve this is to make the user the owner of the directory:

sudo chown www-data:www-data -R $DATA_DIR

Defaults to /home/weblate/data, but it is expected to be configured.

DATABASE_BACKUP

Whether the database backups should be stored as plain text, compressed or skipped. The authorized values are:

  • "plain"

  • "compressed"

  • "none"

DEFAULT_ACCESS_CONTROL

The default access-control setting for new projects:

0

Public

1

Protected

100

Private

200

Custom

Use Custom if you are managing ACL manually, which means not relying on the internal Weblate management.

DEFAULT_AUTO_WATCH

Added in version 4.5.

Configures whether Automatically watch projects on contribution should be turned on for new users. Defaults to True.

See also

Notifications

DEFAULT_RESTRICTED_COMPONENT

Added in version 4.1.

The default value for component restriction.

DEFAULT_ADD_MESSAGE, DEFAULT_ADDON_MESSAGE, DEFAULT_COMMIT_MESSAGE, DEFAULT_DELETE_MESSAGE, DEFAULT_MERGE_MESSAGE

Default commit messages for different operations, please check Component configuration for details.

DEFAULT_ADDONS

Default add-ons to install for every created component.

Note

This setting affects only newly created components.

Example:

DEFAULT_ADDONS = {
    # Add-on with no parameters
    "weblate.flags.target_edit": {},
    # Add-on with parameters
    "weblate.autotranslate.autotranslate": {
        "mode": "suggest",
        "filter_type": "todo",
        "auto_source": "mt",
        "component": "",
        "engines": ["weblate-translation-memory"],
        "threshold": "80",
    },
}

DEFAULT_COMMITER_EMAIL

Committer e-mail address, defaulting to noreply@weblate.org.

DEFAULT_COMMITER_NAME

Committer name, defaulting to Weblate.

DEFAULT_LANGUAGE

Added in version 4.3.2.

Source language for any new components.

Defaults to en. The matching language object needs to exist in the database.

DEFAULT_MERGE_STYLE

Merge style for any new components.

  • rebase - default

  • merge

DEFAULT_SHARED_TM

Configures the default value of Use shared translation memory and Contribute to shared translation memory.

DEFAULT_TRANSLATION_PROPAGATION

Default setting for translation propagation, defaults to True.

DEFAULT_PULL_MESSAGE

Configures the default title and message for pull requests.

ENABLE_AVATARS

Whether to turn on Gravatar-based avatars for users. On by default.

Avatars are fetched and cached on the server, lowering the risk of leaking private info, speeding up the user experience.

ENABLE_HOOKS

Whether to turn on anonymous remote hooks.

ENABLE_HTTPS

Changed in version 5.7: Weblate now requires https for WebAuthn support.

Whether to send links to Weblate as HTTPS or HTTP. This setting affects sent e-mails and generated absolute URLs.

In the default configuration this is also used for several Django settings related to HTTPS — it enables secure cookies, toggles HSTS or enables redirection to a HTTPS URL.

The HTTPS redirection might be problematic in some cases and you might hit an issue with infinite redirection in case you are using a reverse proxy doing an SSL termination which does not correctly pass protocol headers to Django. Please tweak your reverse proxy configuration to emit X-Forwarded-Proto or Forwarded headers or configure SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER to let Django correctly detect the SSL status.

In case this is disabled, Weblate will fail to start with an otp_webauthn.E031 error. You can silence this error by adding it to SILENCED_SYSTEM_CHECKS, but still WebAuthn will not work for sites without HTTPS.

ENABLE_SHARING

Turn on/off the Share menu so users can share translation progress on social networks.

EXTRA_HTML_HEAD

Added in version 4.15.

Insert additional markup into the HTML header. Can be used for verification of site ownership, for example:

EXTRA_HTML_HEAD = '<link href="https://fosstodon.org/@weblate" rel="me">'

Warning

No sanitization is performed on the string. It is inserted as-is into the HTML header.

GET_HELP_URL

Added in version 4.5.2.

URL where support for your Weblate instance can be found.

GITEA_CREDENTIALS

Added in version 4.12.

List for credentials for Gitea servers.

GITEA_CREDENTIALS = {
    "try.gitea.io": {
        "username": "weblate",
        "token": "your-api-token",
    },
}

The configuration dictionary consists of credentials defined for each API host. The layout is same for almost all version control integrations and is described at Configuring version control credentials.

GITLAB_CREDENTIALS

Added in version 4.3.

List for credentials for GitLab servers.

GITLAB_CREDENTIALS = {
    "gitlab.com": {
        "username": "weblate",
        "token": "your-api-token",
    },
}

The configuration dictionary consists of credentials defined for each API host. The layout is same for almost all version control integrations and is described at Configuring version control credentials.

GITHUB_CREDENTIALS

Added in version 4.3.

List for credentials for GitHub servers.

GITHUB_CREDENTIALS = {
    "api.github.com": {
        "username": "weblate",
        "token": "your-api-token",
    },
}

Hint

Use api.github.com as a API host for https://github.com/.

The configuration dictionary consists of credentials defined for each API host. The layout is same for almost all version control integrations and is described at Configuring version control credentials.

BITBUCKETSERVER_CREDENTIALS

Added in version 4.16.

List for credentials for Bitbucket servers.

BITBUCKETSERVER_CREDENTIALS = {
    "git.self-hosted.com": {
        "username": "weblate",
        "token": "http-access-token",
    },
}

The configuration dictionary consists of credentials defined for each API host. The layout is same for almost all version control integrations and is described at Configuring version control credentials.

AZURE_DEVOPS_CREDENTIALS

Added in version 5.2.

List for credentials for Azure DevOps servers.

AZURE_DEVOPS_CREDENTIALS = {
    "dev.azure.com": {
        "username": "project-name",
        "token": "your-api-token",
        "organization": "organization-name",
    },
}

The configuration dictionary consists of credentials defined for each API host. The API host might be different from what you use in the web browser, for example GitHub API is accessed as api.github.com.

The following configuration is available for each host:

username

The name of the Azure DevOps project. This is not the repository name.

organization

The name of the organization of the project.

workItemIds

An optional list of work items IDs from your organization. When provided new pull requests will have these attached.

token

API token for the API user, required.

Additional settings not described here can be found at Configuring version control credentials.

GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID

Google Analytics ID to turn on monitoring of Weblate using Google Analytics.

HIDE_REPO_CREDENTIALS

Hide repository credentials from the web interface. In case you have repository URL with user and password, Weblate will hide it when related info is shown to users.

For example instead of https://user:password@git.example.com/repo.git it will show just https://git.example.com/repo.git. It tries to clean up VCS error messages too in a similar manner.

Note

On by default.

HIDE_VERSION

Added in version 4.3.1.

Hides version info from unauthenticated users. This also makes all documentation links point to the latest version instead of the documentation matching the currently installed version.

Hiding the version is a recommended security practice in some corporations, does not prevent an attacker from figuring out version by probing behavior.

Note

This is turned off by default.

INTERLEDGER_PAYMENT_POINTERS

Added in version 4.12.1.

List of Interledger Payment Pointers (ILPs) for Web Monetization.

If multiple are specified, probabilistic revenue sharing is achieved by selecting one randomly.

Please check <https://webmonetization.org/> for more details.

Hint

The default value lets users fund Weblate itself.

IP_BEHIND_REVERSE_PROXY

Indicates whether Weblate is running behind a reverse proxy.

If set to True, Weblate gets IP address from a header defined by IP_PROXY_HEADER.

Warning

Ensure you are actually using a reverse proxy and that it sets this header, otherwise users will be able to fake the IP address.

Note

This is not on by default.

IP_PROXY_HEADER

Indicates which header Weblate should obtain the IP address from when IP_BEHIND_REVERSE_PROXY is turned on.

Defaults to HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR.

IP_PROXY_OFFSET

Changed in version 5.0.1: The default changed from 1 to -1.

Indicates which part of IP_PROXY_HEADER is used as client IP address.

Depending on your setup, this header might consist of several IP addresses, (for example X-Forwarded-For: client-ip, proxy-a, proxy-b) and you can configure which address from the header is used as client IP address here.

Warning

Setting this affects the security of your installation. You should only configure it to use trusted proxies for determining the IP address. Please check <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-Forwarded-For#security_and_privacy_concerns> for more details.

Defaults to -1.

LICENSE_EXTRA

Additional licenses to include in the license choices.

Note

Each license definition should be tuple of its short name, a long name and an URL.

For example:

LICENSE_EXTRA = [
    (
        "AGPL-3.0",
        "GNU Affero General Public License v3.0",
        "https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0-standalone.html",
    ),
]

LICENSE_FILTER

Changed in version 4.3: Setting this to blank value now disables license alert.

Filter list of licenses to show. This also disables the license alert when set to empty.

Note

This filter uses the short license names.

For example:

LICENSE_FILTER = {"AGPL-3.0", "GPL-3.0-or-later"}

Following disables the license alert:

LICENSE_FILTER = set()

LICENSE_REQUIRED

Defines whether the license attribute in Component configuration is required.

Note

This is off by default.

LIMIT_TRANSLATION_LENGTH_BY_SOURCE_LENGTH

Whether the length of a given translation should be limited. The restriction is the length of the source string × 10 characters.

Hint

Set this to False to allow longer translations (up to 10,000 characters) irrespective of source string length.

Note

Defaults to True.

LOCALIZE_CDN_URL and LOCALIZE_CDN_PATH

These settings configure the JavaScript localization CDN add-on. LOCALIZE_CDN_URL defines root URL where the localization CDN is available and LOCALIZE_CDN_PATH defines path where Weblate should store generated files which will be served at the LOCALIZE_CDN_URL.

Hint

On Hosted Weblate, this uses https://weblate-cdn.com/.

LOGIN_REQUIRED_URLS

A list of URLs you want to require signing in. (Besides the standard rules built into Weblate).

Hint

This allows you to password protect a whole installation using:

LOGIN_REQUIRED_URLS = (r"/(.*)$",)
REST_FRAMEWORK["DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES"] = [
    "rest_framework.permissions.IsAuthenticated"
]

Hint

It is desirable to lock down API access as well, as shown in the above example.

See also

REQUIRE_LOGIN

LOGIN_REQUIRED_URLS_EXCEPTIONS

List of exceptions for LOGIN_REQUIRED_URLS. If not specified, users are allowed to access the sign-in page.

See the Sample configuration for recommended configuration of this setting.

MATOMO_SITE_ID

ID of the site in Matomo (formerly Piwik) you want to use for tracking Weblate.

Note

This integration does not support the Matomo Tag Manager.

See also

MATOMO_URL

MATOMO_URL

Full URL (including trailing slash) of a Matomo (formerly Piwik) installation you want to use to track Weblate use. Please check <https://matomo.org/> for more details.

Hint

This integration does not support the Matomo Tag Manager.

For example:

MATOMO_SITE_ID = 1
MATOMO_URL = "https://example.matomo.cloud/"

See also

MATOMO_SITE_ID

NEARBY_MESSAGES

How many strings to show around the currently translated string. This is just a default value, users can adjust this in User profile.

DEFAULT_PAGE_LIMIT

Added in version 4.7.

Default number of elements to display when pagination is active.

PAGURE_CREDENTIALS

Added in version 4.3.2.

List for credentials for Pagure servers.

PAGURE_CREDENTIALS = {
    "pagure.io": {
        "username": "weblate",
        "token": "your-api-token",
    },
}

The configuration dictionary consists of credentials defined for each API host. The layout is same for almost all version control integrations and is described at Configuring version control credentials.

PRIVACY_URL

Added in version 4.8.1.

URL where your Weblate instance shows its privacy policy.

Hint

Useful if you host your legal documents outside Weblate for embedding them inside Weblate, please check Legal for details.

Example:

PRIVACY_URL = "https://weblate.org/terms/"

See also

LEGAL_URL

PRIVATE_COMMIT_EMAIL_OPT_IN

Added in version 4.15.

Configures whether the private commit e-mail is opt-in or opt-out (by default it is opt-in).

Hint

This setting only applies to users which have not explicitly chosen a commit e-mail.

PRIVATE_COMMIT_EMAIL_TEMPLATE

Added in version 4.15.

Template to generate private commit e-mail for an user. Defaults to "{username}@users.noreply.{site_domain}".

Set to blank string to disable.

Note

Using different commit e-mail is opt-in for users unless configured by PRIVATE_COMMIT_EMAIL_OPT_IN. Users can configure commit e-mail in the Profile.

PROJECT_BACKUP_KEEP_COUNT

Added in version 4.14.

Defines how many backups per project are kept on the server. Defaults to 3.

PROJECT_BACKUP_KEEP_DAYS

Added in version 4.14.

Defines how long the project backups will be kept on the server. Defaults to 30 days.

PROJECT_NAME_RESTRICT_RE

Added in version 4.15.

Defines a regular expression to restrict project naming. Any matching names will be rejected.

See also

Project name

PROJECT_WEB_RESTRICT_HOST

Added in version 4.16.2.

Reject using certain hosts in project website. Any subdomain is matched, so including example.com will block test.example.com as well. The list should contain lower case strings only, the parsed domain is lower cased before matching.

Default configuration:

PROJECT_WEB_RESTRICT_HOST = {"localhost"}

PROJECT_WEB_RESTRICT_NUMERIC

Added in version 4.16.2.

Reject using numeric IP address in project website. On by default.

PROJECT_WEB_RESTRICT_RE

Added in version 4.15.

Defines a regular expression to restrict project websites. Any matching URLs will be rejected.

RATELIMIT_ATTEMPTS

Maximum number of authentication attempts before rate limiting is applied.

Defaults to 5.

RATELIMIT_WINDOW

How long authentication is accepted after rate limiting applies.

An amount of seconds, defaulting to 300 (5 minutes).

RATELIMIT_LOCKOUT

How long authentication is locked after rate limiting applies.

An amount of seconds defaulting to 600 (10 minutes).

REGISTRATION_ALLOW_BACKENDS

Added in version 4.1.

List of authentication backends to allow registration from. This only limits new registrations, users can still authenticate and add authentication using all configured authentication backends.

It is recommended to keep REGISTRATION_OPEN on while limiting registration backends, otherwise users will be able to register, but Weblate will not show links to register in the user interface.

Example:

REGISTRATION_ALLOW_BACKENDS = ["azuread-oauth2", "azuread-tenant-oauth2"]

Hint

The backend names match names used in the URL for authentication.

REGISTRATION_CAPTCHA

Whether registration of new accounts is protected by a CAPTCHA. Defaults to enabled.

If turned on, a CAPTCHA is added to all pages where a users enters their e-mail address:

  • New account registration.

  • Password recovery.

  • Adding e-mail to an account.

  • Contact form for users that are not signed in.

REGISTRATION_EMAIL_MATCH

Allows you to filter which e-mail addresses can register.

Defaults to .*, which allows any e-mail address to be registered.

You can use it to restrict registration to a single e-mail domain:

REGISTRATION_EMAIL_MATCH = r"^.*@weblate\.org$"

REGISTRATION_OPEN

Whether registration of new accounts is currently permitted. Defaults to enabled.

This setting affects built-in authentication by e-mail address or through the Python Social Auth (you can whitelist certain back-ends using REGISTRATION_ALLOW_BACKENDS).

Note

If using third-party authentication methods such as LDAP authentication, it just hides the registration form, but new users might still be able to sign in and create accounts.

REGISTRATION_REBIND

Added in version 4.16.

Allow rebinding authentication backends for existing users. Turn this on when migrating between authentication providers.

Note

Off by default to not allow adding other authentication backends to an existing account. Rebinding can lead to account compromise when using more third-party authentication backends.

REPOSITORY_ALERT_THRESHOLD

Added in version 4.0.2.

Threshold for triggering an alert for outdated repositories, or ones that contain too many changes. Defaults to 25.

REQUIRE_LOGIN

Added in version 4.1.

This enables LOGIN_REQUIRED_URLS and configures REST framework to require authentication for all API endpoints.

Note

This is implemented in the Sample configuration. For Docker, use WEBLATE_REQUIRE_LOGIN.

SENTRY_DSN

Sentry DSN to use for Collecting error reports and monitoring performance.

SENTRY_ENVIRONMENT

Configures environment for Sentry. Defaults to devel.

SENTRY_PROFILES_SAMPLE_RATE

Configure sampling rate for performance monitoring. Set to 1 to trace all events, 0 (the default) disables tracing.

SENTRY_SEND_PII

Allow Sentry to collect certain personally identifiable information. Turned off by default.

Changed in version 5.7: This is turned off by default now, used to be turned on by default.

SENTRY_TRACES_SAMPLE_RATE

Configure sampling rate for profiling monitoring. Set to 1 to trace all events, 0 (the default) disables tracing.

See also

Sentry Profiling

SIMPLIFY_LANGUAGES

Use simple language codes for default language/country combinations. For example an fr_FR translation will use the fr language code. This is usually the desired behavior, as it simplifies listing languages for these default combinations.

Turn this off if you want to different translations for each variant.

SITE_DOMAIN

Configures site domain. Necessary to produce correct absolute links in many scopes (for example activation e-mails, notifications or RSS feeds).

If Weblate is running on a non-standard port, include it here as well.

Examples:

# Production site with domain name
SITE_DOMAIN = "weblate.example.com"

# Local development with IP address and port
SITE_DOMAIN = "127.0.0.1:8000"

Note

This setting should only contain the domain name. For configuring protocol, (turning on and enforcing HTTPS) use ENABLE_HTTPS and for changing the URL, use URL_PREFIX.

Hint

On a Docker container, the site domain is configured through WEBLATE_ALLOWED_HOSTS.

SITE_TITLE

Site title to be used for the website and sent e-mails.

SPECIAL_CHARS

Additional characters to include in the visual keyboard, Visual keyboard.

The default value is:

SPECIAL_CHARS = ("\t", "\n", "\u00a0", "…")

SINGLE_PROJECT

Redirects users directly to a project or component instead of showing the dashboard. You can either set it to True so it only works if there is actually only single project in Weblate. Alternatively, set the project slug, and it will redirect unconditionally to this project.

Example:

SINGLE_PROJECT = "test"

SSH_EXTRA_ARGS

Added in version 4.9.

Allows adding custom parameters when Weblate is invoking SSH. Useful when connecting to servers using legacy encryption or other non-standard features.

For example when SSH connection in Weblate fails with Unable to negotiate with legacyhost: no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: diffie-hellman-group1-sha1, you can turn that on using:

SSH_EXTRA_ARGS = "-oKexAlgorithms=+diffie-hellman-group1-sha1"

Hint

The string is evaluated by the shell, so ensure any whitespace and special characters is quoted.

STATUS_URL

The URL where your Weblate instance reports its status.

SUGGESTION_CLEANUP_DAYS

Automatically deletes suggestions after a given number of days. Defaults to None, meaning no deletions.

SUPPORT_STATUS_CHECK

Added in version 5.5.

Disables semiannual support status check and redirecting superusers upon login to the donation page in case there is no active support subscription.

Hint

Improve your Weblate experience by purchasing a support subscription and boosting Weblate progress instead of turning this off.

UNUSED_ALERT_DAYS

Added in version 4.17.

Configures when the Component seems unused alert is triggered.

Defaults to 365 days, set to 0 to turn it off.

UPDATE_LANGUAGES

Added in version 4.3.2.

Controls whether languages database should be updated when running database migration and is on by default. This setting has no effect on invocation of setuplang.

Warning

The languages display might become inconsistent with this. Weblate language definitions expand over time and it will not display language code for the defined languages.

URL_PREFIX

This setting allows you to run Weblate under some path (otherwise it relies on being run from the webserver root).

Note

To use this setting, you also need to configure your server to strip this prefix. For example with WSGI, this can be achieved by setting WSGIScriptAlias.

Hint

The prefix should start with a /.

Example:

URL_PREFIX = "/translations"

Note

This setting does not work with Django’s built-in server, you would have to adjust urls.py to contain this prefix.

VCS_API_DELAY

Added in version 4.15.1.

Configures minimal delay in seconds between third-party API calls in GitHub pull requests, GitLab merge requests, Gitea pull requests, Pagure merge requests, and Azure DevOps pull requests.

This rate-limits API calls from Weblate to these services to avoid overloading them.

If you are being limited by secondary rate-limiter at GitHub, increasing this might help.

The default value is 10.

VCS_BACKENDS

Configuration of available VCS backends.

Note

Weblate tries to use all supported back-ends you have the tools for.

Hint

You can limit choices or add custom VCS back-ends by using this.

VCS_BACKENDS = ("weblate.vcs.git.GitRepository",)

VCS_CLONE_DEPTH

Configures how deep cloning of repositories Weblate should do.

Note

Currently this is only supported in Git. By default Weblate does shallow clones of the repositories to make cloning faster and save disk space. Depending on your usage (for example when using custom Add-ons), you might want to increase the depth or turn off shallow clones completely by setting this to 0.

Hint

In case you get fatal: protocol error: expected old/new/ref, got 'shallow <commit hash>' error when pushing from Weblate, turn off shallow clones completely by setting:

VCS_CLONE_DEPTH = 0

WEBLATE_ADDONS

List of add-ons available for use. To use them, they have to be enabled for a given translation component. By default this includes all built-in add-ons, when extending the list you will probably want to keep existing ones enabled, for example:

WEBLATE_ADDONS = (
    # Built-in add-ons
    "weblate.addons.gettext.GenerateMoAddon",
    "weblate.addons.gettext.UpdateLinguasAddon",
    "weblate.addons.gettext.UpdateConfigureAddon",
    "weblate.addons.gettext.MsgmergeAddon",
    "weblate.addons.gettext.GettextCustomizeAddon",
    "weblate.addons.gettext.GettextAuthorComments",
    "weblate.addons.cleanup.CleanupAddon",
    "weblate.addons.consistency.LangaugeConsistencyAddon",
    "weblate.addons.discovery.DiscoveryAddon",
    "weblate.addons.flags.SourceEditAddon",
    "weblate.addons.flags.TargetEditAddon",
    "weblate.addons.flags.SameEditAddon",
    "weblate.addons.flags.BulkEditAddon",
    "weblate.addons.generate.GenerateFileAddon",
    "weblate.addons.json.JSONCustomizeAddon",
    "weblate.addons.xml.XMLCustomizeAddon",
    "weblate.addons.properties.PropertiesSortAddon",
    "weblate.addons.git.GitSquashAddon",
    "weblate.addons.removal.RemoveComments",
    "weblate.addons.removal.RemoveSuggestions",
    "weblate.addons.resx.ResxUpdateAddon",
    "weblate.addons.autotranslate.AutoTranslateAddon",
    "weblate.addons.yaml.YAMLCustomizeAddon",
    "weblate.addons.cdn.CDNJSAddon",
    # Add-on you want to include
    "weblate.addons.example.ExampleAddon",
)

Note

Removing the add-on from the list does not uninstall it from the components. Weblate will crash in that case. Please uninstall the add-on from all components prior to removing it from this list.

ADDON_ACTIVITY_LOG_EXPIRY

Added in version 5.6.

Configures how long activity logs for add-ons are kept. Defaults to 180 days.

WEBLATE_EXPORTERS

Added in version 4.2.

List of a available exporters offering downloading translations or glossaries in various file formats.

WEBLATE_FORMATS

List of file formats available for use.

Note

The default list already has the common formats.

WEBLATE_MACHINERY

Added in version 4.13.

List of machinery services available for use.

WEBLATE_GPG_IDENTITY

Identity used by Weblate to sign Git commits, for example:

WEBLATE_GPG_IDENTITY = "Weblate <weblate@example.com>"

The Weblate GPG keyring is searched for a matching key (home/.gnupg under DATA_DIR). If not found, a key is generated, please check Signing Git commits with GnuPG for more details.

WEBSITE_REQUIRED

Defines whether Project website has to be specified when creating a project. On by default, as that suits public server setups.

Configuring version control credentials

Hint

This section describes VCS credential variables as GITHUB_CREDENTIALS, GITLAB_CREDENTIALS, GITEA_CREDENTIALS, PAGURE_CREDENTIALS, BITBUCKETSERVER_CREDENTIALS.

The configuration dictionary consists of credentials defined for each API host. The API host might be different from what you use in the web browser, for example GitHub API is accessed as api.github.com.

The following configuration is available for each host:

username

API user, required.

token

API token for the API user, required.

scheme

Added in version 4.18.

Scheme override. Weblate attempts to parse scheme from the repository URL and falls backs to https. If you are running the API server internally, you might want to use http instead, but consider security.

Hint

In the Docker container, the credentials can be configured using environment variables, see Code hosting sites credentials.