Thanks
Kimon

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.

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!

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://<ip>/wiki/project1 and https://<ip>/wiki/project2

or

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

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

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

The error is "Call to a member function getForumSettings() on a non-object in ManageSiteForumAction.php on line 46".

Seems that it is looking for a site "template-en" but that does not exist on the sites table. Also the forum_settings and forum_categories tables are empty.

Could you please provide the scripts?

Thank you

Installed from GIT with version of November 5th.

"REMOTE LINKING FORBIDDEN. 50megs does not support remote linking of images or files for FREE accounts. PLEASE UPGRADE YOUR ACCOUNT"

Is there any way around this?

Thanks in advance.

For quiet some time I am running a wikidot (v1) on my server.
I recently dated my version up from rev 266 to 463 (and did updates two times before this).

A new post-update-created Wiki gives now an error in the following situation:
I upload an Image (or some other file, but let us think in an jpg file).
The upload works.
I try to direcly access the file in the "files" menu, giving me the list of attatched files => Error!:

Notice: Class PrivateFileFlowController not loaded. in /var/www/wikidot_r463/lib/ozone/php/core/autoload.inc.php on line 64
Fatal error: Class 'PrivateFileFlowController' not found in /var/www/wikidot_r463/web/private_file_filter.php on line 30

Checking this in a pre-update-existing Wiki, I now get the same error if I try to access the file by the "files" menu.
BUT: I do not get an error if I upload a file and use/embedd it with the image command in the page content. The image correctly appears in the page. (For old embedded images and for newly uploaded ones!)

Hmm, back to the post-update-created Wiki, trying the image command:
No! This works not inside the post-update-created Wiki. Using the image command here does not provide the above error, but the image is simply not shown.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark ;-)

This error is much too deep in PHP for me. So I need some help.
The versions beyond 463 did change very much (at least at the time I did the update).
So I got (in this forum) the recommendation for rev 463.

Hopefully, there is any solution that does not require an update to the latest revision (?!)

(I did take a look in the web/private_file_filter.php. It does not very much. It e.g. includes the php/setup.php. There it does not much but invoking a require_once on some other files, e.g. php/utils/GlobalProperties.php. Probably it is a configuration problem, caused by the update? That I do not provide a new configuration item, that was not necessary before… Against this theory would stand that I manually reconfigure the conf/wikidot.ini based on the new template with the settings from my old version during each update procedure. So the configuration should? not cause the problem… I could post the config, if necessary.)

Thx!
Christoph

A friend tried to create an account.
The verification mail never arrived.
I did an account creation on my own — yes the verificaiton mail does not arrive.
I tried with my existing account a "forgot password" — no mail arrives.

But the logs do not contain any information about the mailing.

How does the Mail Backend work?
Is there and where is the log file for mailing?
How do I test the wikidot mailing?
(My "forgot password" testing method is a little bit unsatisfying)

(The /var/log/mail.* files do not log any activity about the relevant mailings)

Thanks for your help!

Thanks in advance for any guidance or advice.

-Ed

I spent some time learning a little bash scripting and came up with a set of scripts to simplify the install process. I'm sure this all could have been done in a single script, but hey, I'm a rookie with this stuff!

The new howto is here:
The Easier Wikidot Home Network Install

Please give it a test drive if you're so inclined and let me know if you have any problems.

-Ed

I just posted a how-to: Wikidot Home Network install

The steps documented have been confirmed to work on 3 different PCs. If you can run Ubuntu Server 7.10, the rest should be pretty easy now.

The how-to still needs some follow-up, but it's far enough along that you can get a working Wikidot server going in a couple of hours.

Have fun!
-Ed

If so, where do we edit those settings? I didn't see anything obvious in GlobalProperties.

Thanks,
-Ed

Was an application missed that needs to be installed or does this not work when running the site while on the server?

Update

I figured out how to find the Captcha code by browsing the "ozone-session" table in the PostgreSQL database (after starting the "create account" process) and was able to create an account for a non-admin user.

The other good news is that I am finally able to access my site not only from my internal network, but from the outside world as well!

I'll have to wait for an answer on why the Captcha (turing code) graphic is not rendering properly before getting too excited. But for now, I have a work-around for my own use.

In spite of my trials and tribulations (and some frustration), I'm learning a lot more about Linux and becoming less fearful of it the more I dig into these issues and try to figure them out!

-Ed

Do I need to change something on the Ubuntu/Wikidot server or change settings on my Windows PCs or is it something else? Once I get this all working, I'll document all the fun I'm having for the rest of you! ;)

-Ed