[Mediawiki-l] Making a offline [HTML|PDF] copy of my local Wiki

Sat Aug 19 19:40:02 UTC 2006

On Friday 18 August 2006 10:03, Carsten Marx wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> i've a problem with making an offline copy of my own local wiki.
>
> The following szenario:
> All the admin-related stuff and also the whole documentation of our
> infrastructure is stored on a webserver. So the document to restore
> the webserver if it crashes is located on the same webserver.... so
> therefore i need an offline copy of my local wiki. (I know this is
> not the perfect solution but there is a backup from the wiki - but i
> need a simple way to have the important documents stored on my local
> computer).

What about a mirror of the wiki? Dump the database to another machine, upload 
it at regular intervals (once a day)?

On the other hand, if your entire datacenter goes down, then a hard copy would 
be a happy thing.

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>
> o Serveral Alternative Parsers:
> See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers for more
> Information.
> I tried the HTML2FPDF and Mediawiki Article (http://
> meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/HTML2FPDF_and_Mediawiki) but i did not get it
> working. Also it's not good that you habe to change some mainfiles
> from the mediawiki installation.
> The other projects are imho not 'ready' or the intension is something
> different.

We are working on something with a table of content file (Stückliste) that 
contains the articles we want to load and in the order we want/need them 
printed. Adding printable=yes to the URL we strip out all of the junk, parse 
the file a little more and then create a PDF. 

> o wget to mirror the wiki-Site
> I also tried mirroring the wiki with 'wget -m http://mydomain.com/
> mywikidirectory/' (i also tried the url http://mydomain.com/
> mywikidirectory/index.php/MainSite) but it is not only mirroring the
> wiki. It's also mirroring the whole site at 'http://mydomain.com/'.
> Why? Can i customize the wget command that it is only mirroring sites
> from 'http://mydomain.com/mywikidirectory/'?

That'll just get you the articles as files on your local system. Although it 
is probably useful in an emergency, there are better alternatives. 

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