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Low traffic sites that are accessible from the internet don't need to install their own PDF Server - does this functionality still work?

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Peculiar Investor (talkcontribs)

Our wiki is running on MediaWiki 1.31.7 and using Collection 1.7.0 (af3a0b8) 14:23, 15 April 2018. The Download as PDF is constantly failing and directing the user to Reading/Web/PDF Functionality which doesn't specifically address the reason for the "Book rendering failed". Reading through Talk:Reading/Web/PDF Functionality doesn't clear up the situation much either. It does seem to indicate there is a new render server available at https://pediapress.com/collector but that doesn't seem to work for non-Wikipedia sites. The existing render server https://tools.pediapress.com/mw-serve/ does seem to still active.

Is the functionality via this extension dead for low traffic sites that don't need or cannot install (i.e shared hosting) their own PDF server?

GMShimokura (talkcontribs)

I have this question too... In my case the progress page stalls without any progress and refreshing the page doesn't seem to help.

Is there a suggested way to debug or to find out what's happening?

Thank you,

Gregg

Nicolas senechal (talkcontribs)
Nicolas senechal (talkcontribs)

In order to have my pdf server, I follow this very good guide so here is the config.

I run the server on Ubuntu(download via window stores in order to not have the CD) 18.0.4, python 2.7.

so at the step 3 I have this problem , and I try the next step until step 6 and I have another error I think that the step 3 is fatal and not just a nice to have.

root@PO-NSENECHAL:/usr/src/Python-2.7.18#   pip install --trusted-host pypi.pediapress.com -i <nowiki>http://pypi.pediapress.com/simple/</nowiki> --upgrade mwlib.rl

Collecting mwlib.rl

  Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement mwlib.rl (from versions: )

No matching distribution found for mwlib.rl

root@PO-NSENECHAL:/usr/src/Python-2.7.18#  chown mw-serve:mw-serve -R /var/log/mediawiki/

chown: cannot access '/var/log/mediawiki/': No such file or directory

So as you can see the bug come from the command or pediapress.com. Or maybe I do something wrong.

any tips are welcome, thanks.

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