{"id":2227,"date":"2008-08-17T22:08:15","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T06:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2008-08-18T21:46:21","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T05:46:21","slug":"how-to-create-an-html-dump-of-mediawiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/17\/how-to-create-an-html-dump-of-mediawiki\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Create an HTML dump of Mediawiki"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you will be traveling and need offline access to your Mediawiki wiki, what should you do?<\/p>\n

If you need to grab pages from a wiki that you aren’t the administrator of, you can try running a web crawler on it or try this Google Gears hack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But if you are the administrator of the wiki (or you know the admin) you can make a Mediawiki2HTML dump. There is a Mediawiki extension that does it for you. Here’s how to run it:<\/p>\n

fetch the DumpHTML extension<\/a> with shell commands like so:<\/p>\n

cd \/whatever\/mediawiki\/extensions
\nsvn checkout http:\/\/svn.wikimedia.org\/svnroot\/mediawiki\/trunk\/extensions\/DumpHTML<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

run a shell command something like this as a cron job (create the appropriate folders first)<\/p>\n

#!\/bin\/sh
\n# Generate a new html dump of wiki.orbswarm.com LCS 8-17-08<\/p>\n

echo “deleting contents of \/home\/swarm\/wiki.orbswarm.com-html”
\nrm -rf \/home\/swarm\/wiki.orbswarm.com-html<\/p>\n

# DumpHTML.php expects to be run from the maintenance directory. The skin won’t get HTMLified if you run it from another directory
\ncd \/home\/swarm\/wiki.orbswarm.com\/extensions\/DumpHTML
\n\/home\/swarm\/php5\/bin\/php dumpHTML.php -d \/home\/swarm\/wiki.orbswarm.com-html -k monobook –image-snapshot –force-copy<\/p>\n

echo “deleting \/home\/swarm\/wiki.orbswarm.com\/offline\/*”
\nrm -rf \/home\/swarm\/wiki.orbswarm.com\/offline\/*<\/p>\n

\/bin\/tar -czf \/home\/swarm\/wiki.orbswarm.com\/offline\/swarm-wiki-html.tar.gz \/home\/swarm\/wiki.orbswarm.com-html\/\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The way the above script is set up, every day, the .gz file is placed in a web accessible folder. I can then download it before I go on my trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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