Howtos, troubleshooting (new posts)

Adding themes to pulldown list in Appearance: Re: Adding themes to pulldown list in Appearance

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:13:45 +0000

Thanks this worked splendidly and themes are installed and ready to implement. Now to get the rest of this thing working :)

Adding themes to pulldown list in Appearance: Re: Adding themes to pulldown list in Appearance

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:00:19 +0000

You need to add themes to proper table in database and to Wikidot files (under common—files/themes or similar). Once you locate it in database and filesystem (can't remember the name now), it should be quite easy for you to do it based on already supplied themes.

Adding themes to pulldown list in Appearance: Adding themes to pulldown list in Appearance

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:54:03 +0000

I have created a number of custom themes for wikidot when using wikidot.com and now that I am using wikidot.org I would like to make them more integrated into the setup, since they are the branding for the school where we are setting the wikis up. I was wondering how I could change the pulldown menu under appearance to add the styles that I have created (as well as the alternate styles). Is that pulldown constructed by pulling from the themes in the theme folder or is it pre-built into the site.

Thanks
Kimon

Got it running but need to enable some key features: Re: Got it running but need to enable some key features

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:40:14 +0000

I am not an expert but from what I have gathered from playing around with wikidot.org and emailing the developers wikidot only works with subdomains and not subfolders. In other words you can't do what you mentioned above:

https://wiki.mydomain/project1 and https://wiki.mydomain/project2

but you can do

http://project1.wiki.mydomain and http://project2.wiki.mydomain

In fact that is how wikidot is set up to run by default and if you set up a wildcard with your domain host as *.wiki.mydomain pointing to your server wikidot.org will manage the different wikis on the wiki farm.

Private Sites: Private Sites

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:26:53 +0000

I'm setting up a wikidot.org installation for courses at my academic institution and would like the sites to be private. However, I am having problems setting up the system:join pages and auth:login pages to work correctly when the site is set up in private mode. Even if I put the login module on my non-member landing page (system:join) it won't let me login. I think that this is because that module is trying to make a request to a page that the non-logged in person can't access because of the private status. This works perfectly fine on wikidot.com and wonder if it is just a configuration issue or a code problem.

This is one of a number of problems I am having and would appreciate any help people can provide on the different threads I am adding.

Which library or libraries are involved in creating the Captcha?: Re: Which library or libraries are involved in creating the Captcha?

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:36:30 +0000

It's been a while since I tried a WDOS install, but the last time I did, I had the same problem. I installed some extra packages listed in an old install guide I wrote and captcha started to work after that. Sorry, I have no idea which package solved the problem.

My old guide is here:
http://my-wd-local.wikidot.com/guide:ubuntu-8-04-with-lighttpd-install

-Ed

Which library or libraries are involved in creating the Captcha?: Which library or libraries are involved in creating the Captcha?

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:39:39 +0000

We have a problem where the captcha only displays correctly in Safari. The captcha doesn't display correctly in any other Web browsers.

In order to troubleshoot this, I'm hoping to find out which library or libraries are involved in the creation and display of the captcha image?

Thanks!

Got it running but need to enable some key features: Got it running but need to enable some key features

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:14:55 +0000

Hi there,

I've been using www.wikidot.com for years and recently decided to run it on my own computer.
So I installed the deb package on my ubuntu 9.10 box and it worked. Very nice!
I was even able to login as Admin to change the site from default public to private, just like what you would have do on wikidot.com.

However, I still need a few key features before settling down.
1. Is there any way to run the site as https instead of http? I guess I would have to change the lighttp conf file, right? Is there any documentation on this? Thanks.
2. I would really love to run multiple sites, with each site having different members and styles for different projects I am running. I notcied that the current wiki process is

lighttpd -f conf/lighttpd/single_wiki.conf

This seems to indicate that this is a single project site? Is there a multi-project conf file I can start with? Ideally, I would like to have URLs like

https:///wiki/project1 and https:///wiki/project2

https://wiki.mydomain/project1 and https://wiki.mydomain/project2

to be two independent projects as if they are on wikidot.com.
Do you think that's possible?

Thank you very much.
Shi

Top bar disappears in IE6: Top bar disappears in IE6

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:59:15 +0000

My site http://incoso.wikidot.com works fine in different browsers, only in IE6 the top bar doesn't show. Any idea how I could fix this?

Locked out: howto "unprivate" page? Login page gone: This is how you log into the postgres database via webmin

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:15:46 +0000

That was a hard one.

To access the database via webmin you have to login with the username and password it is run by.
In my case i had to login with:

user: root
pass: myrootpassword

I hope this helps someone - it did help me.
So i was neither a postgres-database problem nor a wikidot one.
It seems so simple but it took me some time to see "the big picture" ;)

/tud-geek

ps: thanks for "Ed Johnson" again!

Locked out: howto "unprivate" page? Login page gone: Re: Reset Database?

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 03:04:20 +0000

Once you have access as postgres, you should be able to change it

http://scratching.psybermonkey.net/2009/06/21/postgresql-how-to-reset-user-name-postgres-password/

hope this helps.

Cannot log in to site once it is set as private: Re: Cannot log in to site once it is set as private

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:20:42 +0000

I will get back to you later when i solved the exact same problem:

http://www.wikidot.org/forum/t-208656/locked-out:howto-unprivate-page-login-page-gone#post-667222

/tudgeek

Cannot log in to site once it is set as private: Re: Cannot log in to site once it is set as private

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:32:21 +0000

No one has set their site as private and got it working? Or does everyone set up their site as public?

Locked out: howto "unprivate" page? Login page gone: Reset Database?

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:32:37 +0000

If shit hits the fan…

I also did not write down the database password which i need to reset.
After to many attempts to login i get locked out:

*Error - Access denied for 192.168.178.101*

So i need to reset to password for the Database. How to?

Thanks again in advance!

edit: little postgres howto use

change to postgresuser

 su postgres

invoke "postgres command line":

 psql

list databases

\l

quit psql command line

\q

Still need to figure out how to reset the password…

/tud-geek

Locked out: howto "unprivate" page? Login page gone: Re: Locked out: howto "unprivate" page? Login page gone

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:31:06 +0000

Thank you Ed,

i will try your suggestion and it is the solution i was searching for.
Webmin should be the right tool even for nebies in database stuff

I will report back!

/tud-geek

Cannot log in to site once it is set as private: Cannot log in to site once it is set as private

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:17:35 +0000

Hi,

I have just set up a site recently, thanks to the help of Gabrys! :)

I would like to set my site as private though and has come in a little problem. I have set my page as private, and set it to show the page auth:login if user is unauthorized. So far so good.

However, I can't log in once the site is set as private! I currently have two admin accounts and both are members of my site. But when whenever I try logging in, it will say:

Error
Oooops!
This Site is private and accessible only to its members.

Good thing when I was trying that, I was using the accounts from two different computers at the same time. When this happened, one of the accounts was still logged in, and I was able to set it to be public again.

Is this a bug of some sort? It seems that to actually log in, user should already have access to the site first as a member and should be logged in first. But thats a recursive loop…………??!!??

Does anyone know a way around this?

Thanks,
Alex

Locked out: howto "unprivate" page? Login page gone: Re: Locked out: howto "unprivate" page? Login page gone

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:36:16 +0000

Install Webmin on your server and log into Webmin using https://www.yourserver.com:10000/ (or use https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:10000/ where the xxx's are your internal IP address). Under servers you should see "PostgreSQL Database Server".

Select that and then your Wikidot database. Open the "site" table and then "View Data". Find your site that you set private, edit the record and change the private field to "f" (for false). Save the changes and you should be able to get back in.

Once you're up and running again, you should create a system:join page that consists of this code:

 [[note]] Please change this page according to your policy (configure first using [[[admin:manage|Site Manager]]]) and remove this note. [[/note]] + Who can join? You can write here who can become a member of this site. + Join! So you want to become a member of this site? Tell us why and apply now! [[module MembershipApply]] Or, if you already know a "secret password", go for it! [[module MembershipByPassword]]

This is based on an older revision of WDOS (rev 393), so things might have changed in newer versions. Webmin is a great tool for remotely managing small changes in the wikdidot database. Hope this helps.

-Ed

Locked out: howto "unprivate" page? Login page gone: Locked out: howto "unprivate" page? Login page gone

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:24:50 +0000

Hello,

i locked myself out by turning the site private on my homenetwork-server.
There is no, at least i do not see one, possible way to access the login page.

The login page looks like:
The page does not (yet) exist.

The page system:join you want to access does not exist.

create page

and when i click on edit i see:

Error
Oooops!

This Site is private and accessible only to its members.

Any help is appreciated!
Thanks in adcace.

/tud-geek

Remote Linking Forbidden: Re: Remote Linking Forbidden

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:05:26 +0000

Embedding code from other sites

Sometimes web sites (mainly social-oriented ones) allow you to paste a code block directly into other pages in order to increase your site functionality or embed some content from the original site.

Sorry, no match for the embedded content.

For the list of supported services please see the page: Embedding code from other services.

Please note that if the code contains