Migrating from Dokuwiki to Bookstack

Recipe

• Install Dokuwiki extension Site Export Plugin
• Manually change image URI on the output html
• Create a new page and upload all images in the output directory from Site Export Plugin.

Install Dokuwiki extension

Go to the Admin site, then search and install Site Export Plugin.

After successfully install the plugin, the will be a new menu.

Click to Export Page to HTML/PDF, a zip file will be download on your computer. The zip file contains a HTML file which will be modified and a folder has all of the images on the post/page.

Change images URI

I used Visual Studio Code to manipulate the output html file. You can use your own preference editor.

Remove unnessary href field

Remember to click to .* meaning Use regular expression. You can test your own expression at https://regexr.com. In this case, I used href=".+detail\.html" to remove the href.

You would like to change the source of these images as well. Doing it by using replace tool of VSCode. For example,

• find: src="
• replace by: src="circuitlover.com/upload/

Create a new page and upload all images

Change to the source code mode and paste the edited HTML code here.

Now you can upload images generated by Site Export Plugin

Notes

Unfortunatelly, there hasn't any official way to convert from Dokuwiki to Bookstack yet. So I need to repeat the whole process until all the posts/pages are moved to Bookstack.