Manual:importSites.php

Details

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importSites.php is a maintenance script that imports site definitions from an XML file into the sites table.

Arguments

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Argument Description Required
file XML file containing site definitions. Use "php://stdin" to read from stdin. Required

Usage

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php maintenance/importSites.php file
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>
Terminal


Common error

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Failed to open $file for writing.

This error occurs when the file does not exist or the user running the script does not have permission to read the file.

If the file does exist, check the file permissions. If you are a root user, you can run the script with sudo.

See also

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