Topic on Extension talk:Collection

Hi, I've been trying to set up the Collection extension on my own rendering server, so I can generate pdf files from my wiki. So far no luck.

Here's where I am:

I followed this guide:

http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en/Mediawiki_collection_extension_installation

And I can create pdf files from wikipedia using:

mw-zip -c :en -o test.zip Acdc Number

mw-render -c test.zip -o test.pdf -w pdf

mw-zip works just as one would expect.

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mw-zip -c :en -o test.zip Acdc Number

creating nuwiki in u'tmpuIdHyY/nuwiki' 2013-09-07T10:10:58 mwlib.utils.info >> fetching 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Books/License&action=raw&templates=expand' removing tmpdir u'tmpuIdHyY' memory used: res=25.0 virt=816.4

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I can read those pdf files, so I know my basic render farm setup is working.

The problem is that I cannot get it to work with anything other than wikipedia.

If I try the URL in the guide:

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mw-zip -c http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/mediawiki/ -o test2.zip Mediawiki_collection_extension_installation

creating nuwiki in u'tmpRnDvRH/nuwiki' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gevent/greenlet.py", line 328, in run result = self._run(*self.args, **self.kwargs)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mwlib/net/fetch.py", line 747, in refcall_fun fun(*args, **kw)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mwlib/net/fetch.py", line 632, in handle_new_basepath api = self._get_mwapi_for_path(path)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mwlib/net/fetch.py", line 684, in _get_mwapi_for_path raise RuntimeError("cannot guess api url for %r" % (path,))

RuntimeError: cannot guess api url for 'http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/en' <Greenlet at 0x24d2cd0: refcall_fun> failed with RuntimeError

WARNING: (u'Mediawiki_collection_extension_installation', None) could not be fetched removing tmpdir u'tmpRnDvRH' memory used: res=19.3 virt=226.7

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and if I try my own:

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mw-zip -c http://IP:PortNo/wiki/index.php/ --username=uuu --password=ppp -o test2.zip Test

creating nuwiki in u'tmpG82RPH/nuwiki' Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gevent/greenlet.py", line 328, in run result = self._run(*self.args, **self.kwargs)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mwlib/apps/make_nuwiki.py", line 114, in run api = self.get_api()

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mwlib/apps/make_nuwiki.py", line 28, in get_api api.login(self.username, self.password, self.domain)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mwlib/net/sapi.py", line 186, in login res = self._post(**args)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mwlib/net/sapi.py", line 106, in _post res = loads(self._fetch(req))

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mwlib/net/sapi.py", line 23, in loads return json.loads(s)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplejson/__init__.py", line 413, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s)

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 402, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end())

File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/simplejson/decoder.py", line 420, in raw_decode raise JSONDecodeError("No JSON object could be decoded", s, idx)

JSONDecodeError: No JSON object could be decoded: line 1 column 0 (char 0) <Greenlet at 0x1a7b870: <bound method start_fetcher.run of <mwlib.apps.make_nuwiki.start_fetcher object at 0x1acf790>>> failed with JSONDecodeError

removing tmpdir u'tmpG82RPH' memory used: res=16.8 virt=152.5 Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/local/bin/mw-zip", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('mwlib==0.15.11', 'console_scripts', 'mw-zip')()

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mwlib/apps/buildzip.py", line 155, in main make_zip(output, options, env.metabook, podclient=podclient, status=status)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mwlib/apps/buildzip.py", line 50, in make_zip make_nuwiki(fsdir, metabook=metabook, options=options, podclient=podclient, status=status)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/mwlib/apps/make_nuwiki.py", line 189, in make_nuwiki pool.join(raise_error=True)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/gevent/pool.py", line 98, in join raise greenlet.exception

simplejson.decoder.JSONDecodeError: No JSON object could be decoded: line 1 column 0 (char 0)

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I as using Mediawiki 1.23 and I am not behind any proxy and also I disabled SELinux.

Variables that I am using in LocalSettings file are as follows:

$wgServer = "http://IP:portno";

$wgScriptPath = "/wiki";

require_once "$IP/extensions/Collection/Collection.php";

$wgCollectionMWServeURL = 'http://IP:8899'; (default port of mw-serve)

$wgCollectionMWServeCredentials = "username:password";

$wgEnableAPI = true;

I can't even begin to work on the actual extension interface until I have this working..... Any suggestions? Where do I go next?

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Guys! I would really appreciate any kind of help or just point me in the right direction, coz I am banging my head here.

Thanks!

Hello Solanki. Is your server running on Ubuntu? If so did you read Setup a render server on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? If you follow the guide you should be able to get your server up and running. It currently explains how to setup on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS but I am testing it on 14.04 LTS and this seems to work just fine also. When I am done I will update Setup a render server on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Regards.

Hi Felipe. No, my server is running on RHEL 6.5. The strange thing am encountering is its different behavior to different sites, like I mentioned above, it works perfectly fine for Wikipedia, however gives a different error to http://edutechwiki.unige.ch/mediawiki/ and a different one for my site i.e. mw-zip -c http://IP:PortNo/wiki/api.php/ --username=uuu --password=ppp -o test2.zip Test.

Now, this is what's boggling my mind. I have almost gone through every document possible.

(Errors related to different sites are given above.)

Yay! I'm getting this exact error ("cannot guess api url...")

And my server was working before....

HI,

we have the similar kind of setup in our RHEL6 server and we render the PDF documents successfully. But, here the issue is the PDF doc could not contain all the embedded JPEG images in the wiki article page and it only intakes .PNG pictures in the PDF document.

Could some one please advise with solution for this issue? It would be really appreciated !

Thanks in Adv,

Sanjay