[moin-user] Importing pages to MoinMoin

[Volker Wysk]

Am Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2017, 17:28:14 CEST schrieb Paul Boddie:
> On Wednesday 21. June 2017 17.06.16 Volker Wysk wrote:
> > I've installed and configured MoinMoin now, and now I want to import a few
> > hundred pages in MoinMoin.
> > 
> > There doesn't seem to be an import feature, but the storage looks simple.
> > I'm about to write a little program to create MoinMoin data structures
> > (files and directories), from directories of plain text files.
> 
> You can try putting your pages in a directory along with a MOIN_PACKAGE
> file, creating a .zip file, and then using the page package feature to
> import it. That is perhaps easier than trying to get the storage layout
> correct, and you can even version the imports. See the help page:
> 
> https://moinmo.in/HelpOnPackageInstaller

Okay, I've got it working. This was easy.


> > My question is, whether it is as simple as it looks. Is there something to
> > regard? What about full-text search? Does an index need to be updated? (In
> > the help page "SeiteFinden" ("find page") there is a dead link at the
> > bottom, "WegWeiser: eine Liste aller unterstützten Indizierungsschemata"
> > ("direction sign: a list of all supported indexing schemas")).
> 
> Take a look at the Xapian support:
> 
> https://moinmo.in/HelpOnXapian
> 
> As usual, the biggest problems with both of these things is getting the
> permissions right when running the moin commands. Otherwise, Moin will fail
> to access the necessary files and maybe even leave incorrectly-permissioned
> files lying around to obstruct further operations.

I don't need Xapian for my little wiki. Even so, it should be safe (indexes 
updated, permissions) using your PackageInstaller method. So nothing gets 
screwed up.

Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.

Volker