Short urls are for viewing normal pages. Other actions like edit, along
with other entry points like api.php or load.php (static css and js)
continue to use long urls. Load.php is critical for site css. If you want
to save a site using wget you will have to save the load.php requests too.
Some javascript/css may get loaded dynamically when the user does certain
actions in the interface and thus not be caught by wget (however this does
not sound like your main issue). Things should degrade gracefully without
javascript, but of course the css is important.
--
Brian
On Tuesday, August 29, 2023, nh905ml--- via MediaWiki-l <
mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote:
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&
amp;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.