Manual:exportSites.php

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Details[edit]

exportSites.php is a maintenance script that exports site definitions from the sites table to an XML file.

Arguments[edit]

Argument Description Required
file File to write the XML. Use "php://stdout" to write to stdout. Required

Usage[edit]

php maintenance/exportSites.php file
Terminal
mywikisites.xml
<sites version="1.0" xmlns="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/sitelist-1.0/">
	<site type="mediawiki">
		<globalid>hewikipedia</globalid>
		<group>wikipedia</group>
		<path type="page_path">https://he.wikipedia.org/index.php/</path>
		<path type="file_path">https://he.wikipedia.org/</path>
	</site>
	<site type="mediawiki">
		<globalid>hiwikipedia</globalid>
		<group>wikipedia</group>
		<path type="page_path">https://hi.wikipedia.org/index.php/</path>
		<path type="file_path">https://hi.wikipedia.org/</path>
	</site>
	<site type="mediawiki">
		<globalid>wikisite1</globalid>
		<group>mywikigroup</group>
		<path type="page_path">https://www.wikisite1.org/index.php/</path>
		<path type="file_path">https://www.wikisite1.org/</path>
	</site>
</sites>

Common error[edit]

Failed to open $file for writing.

This error occurs when the user running the script does not have permission to write the file.

To resolve, check the user's permissions. If you are a root user, you can run the script with sudo.

See also[edit]