Taking the Wiki Offline

These instructions were tested on Debian 9 "Stretch", but should work on any POSIX-compliant system.

Install mwoffliner

Following the instructions here: https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner.

Set Up redis-server for mwoffliner

Modify the Unix socket section of the redis-server config (/etc/redis/redis.conf) so that the unix socket is created and has the correct permissions.

unixsocket /dev/shm/redis.sock
unixsocketperm 777

(assuming you're on debian)

Run mwoffliner

mwoffliner --mwUrl=https://wiki.dfn.net.au --adminEmail=-adminEmail=foo@bar.net --mwApiPath=/api.php --mwWikiPath=/ --mwModulePath=/load.php

This will create a .zim file from the wiki.

Note: many pages aren't being scraped correctly using this method as of April 2019.

Install Kiwix Reader

Install Kiwix Reader: https://www.kiwix.org/en/downloads/kiwix-reader/ on the on the device you want to take offline, and copy the .zim file from the previous step to the device. Test the wiki in Kiwix before you go offline.