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A caching proxy is the most lightweight option, but if the upstream servers go down and a request comes in that hasn't been seen before and cached it will 404, so it's not a fully redundant mirror. Users should expect their mirrors to be able to serve articles with images and search, but should not expect it to look exactly like on the first try, or the second.Įach method in this guide has its pros and cons.

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Setting up a Wikipidea mirror involves a complex dance between software, data, and devops, so beginners are encouraged to start with the static html archive or proxy and before attempting to run a full MediaWiki Server. **💅Don't expect it to look perfect on the first try** (#) (hardest to set up, ~600GB for XML & database, high CPU use) (#) (10~80GB for compressed archive, low CPU use)ģ. (#) (disk used on-demand for cache, low CPU use)Ģ. **🖥 There are several ways to host your own mirror of Wikipedia (with varying complexity):**ġ. Production also runs a number of extra plugins and modules on top of MediaWiki. itself is powered by a PHP backend called (), using MariaDB for data storage, Varnish and Memcached for request and query caching, and ElasticSearch for full-text search. Download a compressed Wikipedia dump from (79GB, images included!) Download the Kiwix-Serve static binary from **This aim of this guide is to encourage people to use these publicly available dumps to host Wikipedia mirrors, so that malicious actors don't succeed in limiting public access to one of the *world's best sources of information*.**Ī *full* English clone in 3 steps.

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I'm also a big advocate for free access to information, and I'm the maintainer of a major internet archiving project called () (a self-hosted internet archiver powered by headless Chromium). Growing up in China (), and in light of the () I decided to make a guide for people to help demystify the process of running a mirror. Wikipedia's infrastructure (2 racks the USA, 1 in Holland, and 1 in Singapore, + CDNs) (), but thankfully they provide regular database dumps and static HTML archives to the public, and have permissive licensing that allows for rehosting with modification (even for profit!). **Unfortunately, Wikipedia attracts lots of hate from people and nation-states who object to certain articles or want to hide information from the public eye.** > **Did you know that just runs a mostly-traditional LAMP stack on ()**? (as of 2019)

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Originally published on .The pretty HTML version is here and the source for this guide is on Github.Ī summary of how to set up a full mirror using three different approaches. The hardward is quite old (trying to reuse some old hardware to create a computer lab for a very poor school) with the CPU's being either a PIII or P4.How to self-host a mirror of :with Nginx, Kimix, or MediaWiki/XOWA + Docker The OS is AntiX (Debian based low resource Linux). Also in the kiwix-idx directory the following files were created:įlintlock, iamchert, postlist.baseA, postlist.DB, record.baseA, record.DB, termlist.baseA, and termlist.DB kiwix-index -verbose PATH_TO_ZIM_FILE INDEX_DIRECTORY_PATH When I tried to create the index and enable full text search I was in the kiwix bin directory as root and I excuted: I do not have a compiled index file, I was trying to create one with new. The dowloaded kiwit binary file was 2 and this was unzipped in the /opt directory. When trying to manually run kiwix-install I'm getting stuck as I don't know what the addcontent or KIWIX_PATH is. kiwix-index -v -backend=xapian ZIM_PATH INDEX_PATH I tried to manually execute the kiwix-index using: opt/Wikipedia/kiwix-data/idx/ (manually created this directory) opt/Wikipedia/kiwix-data/zim/ (also where dl zim is located)

So I would also like to know what I specify as the ADDCONTENT and KIWIX_PATH as I will need to kiwix-install from the cli for this zim file. Hope I'm not hijacking this thread, but I've downloaded the Wikipedia.

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