Migrating MediaWiki
2008-09-08 18:42:08.147544+02 by
Dan Lyke
7 comments
In trying to track down what's making the Flutterby server run out of memory, I've also decided that I'm going to see if I can migrate Flutterby.net from MediaWiki to something more reasonable for the type of site it is.
The immediate problem is URL remapping: I'd like to keep all of the extant links intact. I can do this a couple of ways, I'm planning on moving this whole thing to MediaWiki on a private server and then using mw2html to extract the MediaWiki content, but managing the redirects and such seems like a royal PITA. Anyone done this? Do I just give Apache a monster list of redirects, or set up a CGI handler that does a database lookup or straight string remapping and then sends a redirect?
I also seem to be having issues with mw2html getting all of the files.
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#Comment Re: made: 2008-09-08 19:34:48.147202+02 by:
spl
Good luck figuring out the redirects. I can imagine that's a pain.
I suppose if you have the same names for entries, you can do either a pattern redirect with Apache or a CGI script. That might be the easiest.
#Comment Re: made: 2008-09-08 20:49:10.08678+02 by:
Dan Lyke
Here we go, Apache has a cookbook entry for an external rewriting engine.
Now to figure out why mw2html isn't digging as deep as I'd like...
#Comment Re: made: 2008-09-08 22:17:52.92671+02 by:
JT
This cheat sheet has saved my butt a number of times. It's good to keep it somewhere for quick reference if you deal with mod_rewrite.
#Comment Re: made: 2008-09-09 03:20:12.14264+02 by:
meuon
JT's the king for Mod_ReWrite, but the problem is some part of the cron weekly scripts, even though when I run them manually I'm not getting a problem.
I'll play some Wednesday, heading back to Atlanta tomorrow.
#Comment Re: made: 2008-09-09 03:29:37.891687+02 by:
Dan Lyke
Any idea what user they're getting run under? I'll poke around a bit, but I'm not seeing anything obvious. It's also weird that it had been crashing on Sunday morning, but this last one was Monday morning.
#Comment Re: made: 2008-09-09 05:40:50.329452+02 by:
spc476
Don't forget the environment variables may be different under cron as well.
#Comment Re: made: 2008-09-09 14:38:12.874457+02 by:
davep_phone
I use mod_rewrite in combination with my content server PHP script, which has a big table of files I
know I've rearranged. Seems to work well even under a pretty heavy load. Mod_rewriite can handle
an awful lot.
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