I have a few inactive MediaWiki sites currently running 1.26.4 that I want
to convert to static HTML. As a first step, I enabled short URLs using
the instructions at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/Apache
. The site I am working on was originally in
https://example.ca/dm. I
moved the 'dm' folder to 'w'. In the root folder, I added the following
line to .htaccess in the document root which contains both the 'w' and
'dm' folders.
RewriteRule ^/?dm(/.*)?$ %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/w/index.php [L]
The site loaded fine when accessed as
https://example.ca/w. I then
updated LocalSettings.php using 'dm' as a replacement for 'wiki':
$wgScriptPath = "/w";
$wgArticlePath = "/dm/$1";
I purged the cache by truncating the MySQL objectcache. When I access
https://example.ca/dm, the site appears to load properly. However, I
noticed a lot of references to /w:
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cmediawiki.sectionAnchor%7Cmediawiki.skinning.interface%7Cskins.vector.styles&only=styles&skin=vector"
/>
<script async
src="/w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=vector"></script>
There are other references to /w and //example.ca/w for links such as
'edit', 'search', and 'talk' but those will be deleted anyway.
I downloaded the site using wget and the instructions at
http://camwebb.info/blog/2012-12-20/. When I uploaded the static HTML
files to a web server and displayed the first page, it lacked stylesheets
- they had been downloaded to a 'w' folder as:
load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=mediawiki.action.view.filepage%7Cmediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cmediawiki.sectionAnchor%7Cmediawiki.skinning.content.externallinks%7Cmediawiki.skinning.interface%7Cskins.monobook.styles&only
The browser failed with a 404 when trying to access the following in the
static index.html:
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="../w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%252Cshared%257Cmediawiki.sectionAnchor%257Cmediawiki.skinning.content.externallinks%257Cmediawiki.skinning.interface%257Cskins.monobook.styles&only=styles&skin=monobook"
/>
I tried renaming the various "load.php?..." files to "load.html" and
"load2.html", then updating index.html to point to them. The loadx.html
files load successfully but there is another load.php reference that I
have not found yet, and lots in the other wiki pages.
Am I missing something obvious? I found additional .htaccess Rewrite
rules in
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL/wiki/Page_Title_--_.htaccess
but these appear apply if I am trying to run the wiki from
https://example.ca.