Manual:importSites.php
MediaWiki file: importSites.php | |
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Location: | maintenance/ |
Source code: | master • 1.42.3 • 1.41.4 • 1.39.10 |
Classes: | ImportSites |
Details
editimportSites.php is a maintenance script that imports site definitions from an XML file into the sites
table.
Arguments
editArgument | Description | Required |
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file | XML file containing site definitions. Use "php://stdin" to read from stdin. | Required |
Usage
editphp 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
$ php maintenance/importSites.php mywikisites.xml Done.
Common error
edit- 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.