Config Variables

The configuration files are formated like a standard Unix configuration file: blank lines are ignored, any line starting with a # is ignored, variables are set with VariableName=Value line.

CLIOPTS

Default options that should always be passed to the command line. For example:

CLIOPTS=-output results.txt -Format text

Default Setting

CLIOPTS=

NIKTODTD

Path to the location of the DTD used for XML output. If the path is not absolute then it will be relative to the directory where Nikto is executed.

Default Setting

NIKTODTD=docs/nikto.dtd