**Setup**
- MediaWiki 1.35.0-rc.2 (0f1a2a2) 18:43, 21 August 2020
- PHP 7.2.24-0ubuntu0.18.04.6 (apache2handler)
- MariaDB 10.1.44-MariaDB-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
- VisualEditor 0.1.2 (cc95db5) 18:39, 21 August 2020
- wikimedia/parsoid 0.12.0-a23
**Configuration**
```
$wgVirtualRestConfig['modules']['parsoid'] = [
'url' => 'http://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org:8142',
'domain' => '99071'
];
$wgVirtualRestConfig['modules']['parsoid']['forwardCookies'] = true;
wfLoadExtension( 'VisualEditor' );
$wgVisualEditorAvailableNamespaces = [
'File' => false,
'Category' => false,
'Extra' => true,
'Locked' => true
];
$wgVisualEditorEnableWikitext = true;
$wgDefaultUserOptions['visualeditor-newwikitext'] = 1;
```
**Issue**
With the configuration above VisualEditor works better than ever, i.e. it is faster and I can even switch between visual editing and source editing without problems. However once I comment out the `$wgVirtualRestConfig` settings, VisualEditor fails completely:
```
Error contacting the Parsoid/RESTBase server (HTTP 500)
```
From the communication about VisualEditor for Mw 1.35 I picked up, I may be wrong here, that `$wgVirtualRestConfig` settings are no longer required, since nodejs/parsoid is no longer required.
Basically the question is: Am I doing something wrong or is this expected?