1463269 - Enable etherpad export so wiki.mozilla.org's etherpad import functionality works

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations :: Runtime, task)

Description

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

The fallout of bug 1461564 temporarily eating all etherpads is that it's been suggested to migrate off of the unsupported etherpad instance.  I just went to migrate my page from etherpad and discovered that wiki.mozilla.org has a mechanism to import from etherpads, as documented at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Help:Import_From_Etherpad (and initially discussed at https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/help-test-etherpad-to-mozillawiki-importer/1868/11) which is good.  Unfortunately, it's currently broken because exporting seems to be unintentionally disabled, perhaps as a result of the settings file glitch that caused bug 1461564.


I went to perform the import, but it appears that this mechanism depends on the etherpad's export functionality.  Specifically, you can append "/export/txt" or "/export/html" (or /export/etherpad too I think) to an etherpad and it will try and export, if enabled.  (This is also accessible via the UI if you click on the bidirectional horizontal arrows on the toolbar in the upper right of any etherpad.)

The etherpad gives this error if I try and export manually: "Exports are not allowed"

Similarly, if I use https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=Special:ImportFromEtherpad I get:
"""
Import failed: Unable to import from etherpad
No valid etherpad export url found.
"""

For reference, I was trying to export https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/quota-manager-schema-change-log which does not copy-and-paste into wiki.mozilla.org well.

Thanks!

Comment 1

[Eric Ziegenhorn :ericz]

Thanks for the report, you have a very good point.  Now that we're on a newer more secure version we can re-enable this.  You should be able to export again.

Comment 2

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

Thank you, I was able to successfully import my etherpad into wiki.mozilla.org!