Opt Out of Active Installs

Last modified by Vincent Massol on 2026/09/11 10:16

Steps

Emptying the ping URL stops your instance from sending its daily ping. For what the project does with that data, see Active Installs.

  1. Open xwiki/WEB-INF/xwiki.properties and locate activeinstalls2.pingURL, in the "Active Installs 2" section. It ships commented out, at its default value:
    # activeinstalls2.pingURL = https://extensions.xwiki.org/activeinstalls2
  2. Uncomment it and leave its value empty, then save the file and restart XWiki.
  3. The ping URL is now empty, and Active Installs sends nothing from this instance:
    activeinstalls2.pingURL =

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