[pmwiki-users] Improve export-to-html recipe

[Petko Yotov]

For known bot user agents, $EnableRobotCloakActions and $RobotActions 
would cause links to be rewritten to not show ?action URLs in the HTML 
source, and to return an error 403 Forbidden, not 500, if the agent 
tries to access a forbidden action.

Moreover, wget is not among the default known bot user agents, so it 
wouldn't activate the rewriting or blocking.

An internal server error 500 often appears when there is a problem with 
one of the scripts, either an error or a PHP incompatibility in local 
configuration, in a recipe, or in the core.

It may also be unrelated to PmWiki, say a web application firewall 
configuration.

Are there any fatal error details in the PHP error log?

Petko

On 13/11/2025 14:38, Johan Bengtsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried https://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/ExportHTML but found that
> it didn't work so well.
> 
> "EnableRobotCloakActions = 1; "  caused our wiki to just show an HTTP 
> error 500.
> 
> This worked:
> 
> wget      --recursive      --level 5      --no-clobber
> --page-requisites  -e robots=off --adjust-extension \
>      --span-hosts      --convert-links
> --restrict-file-names=ascii  --remote-encoding=ISO-8859  \
>  --domains    ourwiki.portal.se   --no-parent \
>   --no-host-directories     --reject-regex '(.*)\?(.*)'
> ourwiki.portal.se/FooWiki/SomeGroup
> 
> The important bit is --reject-regex '(.*)\?(.*)'   which stops
> downloading of action= links.