Running wiki-to-print on the server

To run wiki-to-print in the background

Wiki-to-print is a Flask application that runs in the background as a service, using a systemd service file.

$ sudo service wiki2print status

$ sudo service wiki2print start
$ sudo service wiki2print stop
$ sudo service wiki2print restart

The service is configured at: /etc/systemd/system/wiki2print.service

For debugging (on the server)

You can find the files of wiki-to-print here:

$ cd /var/www/wiki2print/web-interface/

To get error logs, you can run the flask application directly with:

$ make server

If you add prints statements in the python files you can see the result in the terminal.

For debugging (through a local installation)

$ git clone ssh://gitea@vvvvvvaria.org:12345/varia/wiki-to-print.git

$ cd wiki-to-print/wiki-to-print/web-interface/

$ make setup

$ make local

jobrunner

There is a script called jobrunner.sh in /var/www/html/wiki/ that is based on: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Job_queue#Continuous_service

It runs the MediaWiki jobs every minute.

It is installed on CC and runs in the background as a system-d service, called "jobrunner", which can be used with:

$ sudo service jobrunner status
$ sudo service jobrunner start
$ sudo service jobrunner stop
$ sudo service jobrunner reload

The service is configured at: /etc/systemd/system/jobrunner.service