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Install Mediawiki PDF Creator
This page shows how to setup the Wiki plugin called 'Collection' that allows creation of PDF books from wiki pages and the setup of the renderer server used to actually render the PDFs.
Prerequisites
You must have a CentOS machine already set up in accordance with the “Install CentOS 6” guide.
A very useful extension to the Wiki is the Collection extension. This gives the ability to create 'books' from wiki pages and export them to PDF. In order to render the pages correctly the extension uses a render server. If the wiki is not discoverable from its location by external sites, it may be necessary to set-up our own internal rendering server. The following guide outlines the steps to install and run the rendering server.
You must have a Mediawiki installation already setup in accordance with the “Install Mediawiki” guide.
Install Packages
The packages “ploticus” and “pdftk” are not available in the normal Centos but are available from rpmforge.
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm rm -f rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt rm -f RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
The package “python-virtualenv” is not available in the normal Centos but are available from the ELEP repository.
wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rm -f epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
Several packages are needed in order for the render server to function correctly, these can be installed using the following command as root
yum install gcc gcc-c++ libevent-devel python python-imaging python-devel python-virtualenv libjpeg make ocaml *libz* *libxslt* *freetype* \ *lcms* *libz* *texlive-latex* ploticus dvipng ImageMagick pdftk tkinter libjpeg-devel ruby-tcltk *libxml* python-lxml tk*
Install mwlib
Run the following commands as root:
virtualenv --distribute --no-site-packages ~/pp export PATH=~/pp/bin:$PATH hash -r export PIP_INDEX_URL=http://pypi.pediapress.com/simple/ pip install pil pip install greenlet gevent roman simplejson sqlite3dbm py lxml qserve apipkg pyPdf bottle timelib pyparsing pip install -i http://pypi.pediapress.com/simple/ mwlib pip install -i http://pypi.pediapress.com/simple/ mwlib.rl pip install -i http://pypi.pediapress.com/simple/ pyfribidi
Add Path Variables
We need to add a script to set the path correctly on boot. Run the following as root
echo "PATH=\$PATH:/root/pp/bin" >> /etc/profile echo "export PATH" >> /etc/profile
=Testing Renderer= On the server you should be able to run the following to build a pdf with two chapters.
mw-zip -c http://mediawiki.example.com/mediawiki/ -o test.zip Install_Linux Install_Java mw-render -c test.zip -o test.pdf -w rl
To test the mw-zip command with json, use
mw-zip -c http://mediawiki.example.com/mediawiki/ -o test.zip -m metabook.json
Example json is:
{
"type":"collection",
"title":"MyTitle",
"subtitle":"MySubtitle",
"licenses":
[
{
"type":"license",
"name":"License",
"mw_rights_icon":"",
"mw_rights_page":"",
"mw_rights_url":"",
"mw_rights_text":""
}
],
"items":
[
{
"type":"article",
"content_type":"text\/x-wiki",
"title":"Install Mediawiki",
"revision":"24805",
"latest":"24805",
"timestamp":"1400760710",
"url":"http:\/\/mediawiki.example.com\/mediawiki\/index.php\/Install_Mediawiki",
"currentVersion":1
},
{
"type":"article",
"content_type":"text\/x-wiki",
"title":"Install Postgresql",
"revision":"18554",
"latest":"18554",
"timestamp":"1368629961",
"url":"http:\/\/mediawiki.example.com\/mediawiki\/index.php\/Install_Postgresql",
"currentVersion":1
}
]
}
Download Collection Plugin
You can download the latest version of the Collection plugin [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:ExtensionDistributor/Collection here].
Install Collection Plugin
You can find full instructions for installation [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Collection#Installation here].
Download and copy to /data/www/html/mediawiki/extensions
cd /data/www/html/mediawiki wget https://codeload.github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki-extensions-Collection/legacy.tar.gz/REL1_22 mv REL1_22 Collections.tar.gz tar -xzf Collections.tar.gz -C /data/www/html/mediawiki/extensions rm -f Collections.tar.gz cd extensions mv wikimedia-mediawiki-extensions-Collection-* Collection
Add the following to the bottom of the LocalSettings.php for the Wiki (/data/www/html/mediawiki) - Changing the IP address to the IP address of the server.
$wgCollectionMWServeURL = 'localhost:8899/';
$wgCollectionFormats = array(
'rl' => 'PDF',
'odf' => 'ODT'
);
require_once("$IP/extensions/Collection/Collection.php");
Fix Collection Plugin
You now have to fix a bug that has been left in the Collection plugin. This is for Collection 1.6.1 on Mediawiki 1.22.6 with PHP 5.3.3.
Firstly, ensure SELinux is disabled. If it is enabled, the curl_exec() call will fail. If you don't want to disable SELinux, try running the following command, it may work
setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1
Secondly, you need to edit $IP/extensions/Collection/Collection.body.php
In the function
static function mwServeCommand( $command, $args ) {
Replace
$serveURL = $wgCollectionMWServeURL;
with
$serveURL = 'mediawiki.example.com:8899/';
and then replace
$response = Http::post($serveURL, array('postData' => $args));
with
$boundary = '--myboundary-bps';
$retval= '';
foreach($args as $key => $value){
$retval .= "--$boundary\nContent-Disposition: form-data; name=\"$key\"\n\n$value\n";
}
$retval .= "--$boundary--";
$body = $retval;
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array("Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=$boundary"));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $serveURL);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $body);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true );
$response = curl_exec($ch);
Manually Start Render Server
SSH in as root and run the following
iptables -I INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 8899 -j ACCEPT service iptables save service iptables restart
mkdir /var/log/renderer/ nohup nserve > /var/log/renderer/log_nserve 2>&1 & nohup mw-qserve > /var/log/renderer/log_mw-qserve 2>&1 & nohup nslave --cachedir /tmp/cache/ > /var/log/renderer/log_nslave 2>&1 &
You should now be able to use the Collection plugin functionality on the Wiki
Setup the Render Server as a Service
Create /etc/init.d/pdfrenderer as root
#!/bin/bash
- chkconfig: 2345 95 20
- /etc/rc.d/init.d/pdfrenderer
- Description: Starts and stops the Collection PDF renderer for creating PDF books in the wiki.
PATH=$PATH:/root/pp/bin
case $1 in
start)
echo -n "Starting nserve: "
nohup /root/pp/bin/nserve > /var/log/renderer/log_nserve 2>&1 &
echo "Done"
echo -n "Starting mw-qserve: "
nohup /root/pp/bin/mw-qserve > /var/log/renderer/log_mw-qserve 2>&1 &
echo "Done"
echo -n "Starting nslave: "
nohup /root/pp/bin/nslave --cachedir /tmp/cache/ > /var/log/renderer/log_nslave 2>&1 &
echo "Done"
;;
stop)
echo -n "Stopping nslave: "
PID_N_SLAVE=`ps -ef | grep nslave | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
kill -9 $PID_N_SLAVE
echo "Done"
echo -n "Stopping mw-qserve: "
PID_MW_QSERVE=`ps -ef | grep mw-qserve | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
kill -9 $PID_MW_QSERVE
echo "Done"
echo -n "Stopping nserve: "
PID_NSERVE=`ps -ef | grep nserve | grep -v grep | awk '{print $2}'`
kill -9 $PID_NSERVE
echo "Done"
;;
*)
echo "Usage: pdfrenderer {start|stop}"
exit 1
esac
exit 0
Install as service
chmod u+x /etc/init.d/pdfrenderer chkconfig --add pdfrenderer chkconfig pdfrenderer on
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