CTFd provides a number of configuration options which are used to configure server behavior. CTFd makes a distinction between configuration values which can be configured only with server-level access and values which can be configured by those with administrative priveleges on CTFd.
Server level configuration can be modified from the config.py
file in CTFd.
The secret value used to creation sessions and sign strings. This should be set to a random string. In the interest of ease, CTFd will automatically create a secret key file for you. If you wish to add this secret key to your instance you should hard code this value to a random static value.
You can also remove .ctfd_secret_key from the .gitignore file and commit this file into whatever repository you are using.
http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/latest/quickstart/#sessions
The URI that specifies the username, password, hostname, port, and database of the server used to hold the CTFd database.
e.g. mysql+pymysql://root:<YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE>@localhost/ctfd
The URI to connect to a Redis server.
e.g. redis://user:password@localhost:6379
http://pythonhosted.org/Flask-Caching/#configuring-flask-caching
The email address that emails are sent from if not overridden in the configuration panel.
The mail server that emails are sent from if not overriden in the configuration panel.
The mail port that emails are sent from if not overriden in the configuration panel.
Whether or not to use username and password to authenticate to the SMTP server
The username used to authenticate to the SMTP server if MAIL_USEAUTH is defined
The password used to authenticate to the SMTP server if MAIL_USEAUTH is defined
Whether to connect to the SMTP server over TLS
Whether to connect to the SMTP server over SSL
Mailgun API key to send email over Mailgun
Mailgun base url to send email over Mailgun
The location where logs are written. These are the logs for CTFd key submissions, registrations, and logins. The default location is the CTFd/logs folder.
Specifies the service that CTFd should use to store files.
The location where files are uploaded. The default destination is the CTFd/uploads folder.
AWS access token used to authenticate to the S3 bucket.
AWS secret token used to authenticate to the S3 bucket.
The unique identifier for your S3 bucket.
A URL pointing to a custom S3 implementation.
Specifies whether CTFd is behind a reverse proxy or not. Set to True
if using a reverse proxy like nginx.
See Flask documentation for full details.
Tip
You can also specify a comma seperated set of numbers specifying the reverse proxy configuration settings. For example to configure x_for=1, x_proto=1, x_host=1, x_port=1, x_prefix=1 specify 1,1,1,1,1. By setting the value to True
, CTFd will default to the above behavior with all proxy settings set to 1.
Specifies whether Flask should check for modifications to templates and reload them automatically.
Automatically disabled to suppress warnings and save memory. You should only enable this if you need it.
Enable the Swagger UI endpoint at /api/v1/
Specifies whether or not CTFd will check whether or not there is a new version of CTFd
Specifies what path CTFd is mounted under. It can be used to run CTFd in a subdirectory. Example: /ctfd