Running wiki-to-print on the server

Running wiki-to-print as a background process

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)

Stop the wiki2print service:

$ sudo service wiki2print stop

Then run wiki-to-print manually from the folder where it is installed. First go to this folder:

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

And then run the application:

$ make server

And if needed, you can add print statements in the python files to dive deeper into the code.

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 10 seconds.

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