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

-Ed

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!

Since wikidot is self-contained and insists on being at the root of the server, my only real option is to proxy requests to wikidot through Apache. I have wikidot running on port 8080, only accessible from the server. I have Apache configured as a reverse proxy with mod_proxy and mod_proxy_html, and it's halfway working: it serves pages and rewrites the links in the sidebar. It doesn't rewrite the @import style directive, so no CSS, but I could get that working with regexp's. The bigger problem is ajax, which I've never personally dealt with so I have no idea how to fix.

When I try to login/create a page/pretty much anything, I get this error:

 The ajax request failed. Please check your internet connection or report a bug if the error repeats during your work. code:404 

Has anyone gotten wikidot running behind an apache proxy? Or, barring that, any other ajax web app? I'm not sure where to go from here.

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

If you're not trying to install Wikidot and are just looking for WAMP support, you're in the wrong place. There are several WAMP projects out there. Which one are you using?

Of course I need to know how to set user name and password and probably more

Why isn't there a spam filter like Akismet or Sblam installed for edits / comments? The amount of spam on open wikis is becoming a nightmare and the only solution seems to be switching the permission schemas to allow edits from specific users only.

Have been held up a bit further down the line now though :S

I've run that, exited (logged out) of the postgres user), and then attempted to run make, however every time I run it I get errors (and the output is so long that I can't see it all because the top part is cut off when I try to scroll up to it).

 bin/bootstrap_db.php files/dump/db/*.sql PHP Warning: pg_query(): Query failed: ERROR: relation "admin" already exists in /home/shane/Desktop/wikidot/lib/ozone/php/core/database/PgConnection.php on line 104 Error occured at query number 1, file files/dump/db/0-schema.sql: CREATE TABLE admin ( admin_id integer NOT NULL, site_id integer, user_id integer, founder boolean DEFAULT false ) bin/generate_om.php database name: wikidot ---------------------------------------- processing file base-db.xml: ---------------------------------------- table: ozone_lock table: ozone_session table: ozone_user table: ozone_group table: ozone_permission table: ozone_user_group_relation table: ozone_user_permission_modifier table: ozone_group_permission_modifier table: unique_string_broker table: form_submission_key table: storage_item ---------------------------------------- processing file petition-db.xml: ---------------------------------------- table: petition_campaign table: petition_signature ---------------------------------------- processing file simpletodo-db.xml: ---------------------------------------- table: simpletodo_list ---------------------------------------- processing file wikidot-db.xml: ---------------------------------------- table: site table: site_tag table: category table: page table: page_revision table: page_source table: page_compiled table: page_metadata table: comment table: comment_revision table: fts_entry table: file table: files_event table: ucookie table: page_link table: page_inclusion table: page_external_link table: member table: admin table: moderator table: member_application table: member_invitation table: page_edit_lock table: theme table: theme_preview table: license table: site_settings table: site_super_settings table: notification table: private_message table: profile table: user_settings table: user_karma table: global_ip_block table: ip_block table: global_user_block table: user_block table: private_user_block table: watched_page table: watched_forum_thread table: page_abuse_flag table: user_abuse_flag table: anonymous_abuse_flag table: admin_notification table: log_event table: contact table: page_tag table: page_rate_vote table: email_invitation table: membership_link table: site_backup table: domain_redirect table: site_viewer table: openid_entry table: api_key ---------------------------------------- processing file wikidot-forum-db.xml: ---------------------------------------- table: forum_group table: forum_category table: forum_thread table: forum_post table: forum_post_revision table: forum_settings table: front_forum_feed generating classes generating classes for ozone_lock generating classes for ozone_session generating classes for ozone_user generating classes for ozone_group generating classes for ozone_permission generating classes for ozone_user_group_relation generating classes for ozone_user_permission_modifier generating classes for ozone_group_permission_modifier generating classes for unique_string_broker generating classes for form_submission_key generating classes for storage_item generating classes for petition_campaign generating classes for petition_signature generating classes for simpletodo_list generating classes for site generating classes for site_tag generating classes for category generating classes for page generating classes for page_revision generating classes for page_source generating classes for page_compiled generating classes for page_metadata generating classes for comment generating classes for comment_revision generating classes for fts_entry generating classes for file generating classes for files_event generating classes for ucookie generating classes for page_link generating classes for page_inclusion generating classes for page_external_link generating classes for member generating classes for admin generating classes for moderator generating classes for member_application generating classes for member_invitation generating classes for page_edit_lock generating classes for theme generating classes for theme_preview generating classes for license generating classes for site_settings generating classes for site_super_settings generating classes for notification generating classes for private_message generating classes for profile generating classes for user_settings generating classes for user_karma generating classes for global_ip_block generating classes for ip_block generating classes for global_user_block generating classes for user_block generating classes for private_user_block generating classes for watched_page generating classes for watched_forum_thread generating classes for page_abuse_flag generating classes for user_abuse_flag generating classes for anonymous_abuse_flag generating classes for admin_notification generating classes for log_event generating classes for contact generating classes for page_tag generating classes for page_rate_vote generating classes for email_invitation generating classes for membership_link generating classes for site_backup generating classes for domain_redirect generating classes for site_viewer generating classes for openid_entry generating classes for api_key generating classes for forum_group generating classes for forum_category generating classes for forum_thread generating classes for forum_post generating classes for forum_post_revision generating classes for forum_settings generating classes for front_forum_feed bin/bootstrap_pages.php files/dump/sites/* Saving files/dump/sites/profiles/admin.manage.page Saving files/dump/sites/profiles/how-to-edit-pages.page Saving files/dump/sites/profiles/nav.side.page Saving files/dump/sites/profiles/search.site.page Saving files/dump/sites/profiles/start.page Saving files/dump/sites/profiles/system.list-all-pages.page Saving files/dump/sites/profiles/system.page-tags.page Saving files/dump/sites/profiles/system.recent-changes.page Saving files/dump/sites/profiles/template.profile.page Saving files/dump/sites/profiles/what-is-a-wiki.page Saving files/dump/sites/template-plain/admin.manage.page Saving files/dump/sites/template-plain/how-to-edit-pages.page Saving files/dump/sites/template-plain/nav.side.page Saving files/dump/sites/template-plain/search.site.page Saving files/dump/sites/template-plain/start.page Saving files/dump/sites/template-plain/system.list-all-pages.page Saving files/dump/sites/template-plain/system.page-tags.page Saving files/dump/sites/template-plain/system.recent-changes.page Saving files/dump/sites/template-plain/what-is-a-wiki.page Saving files/dump/sites/www/account.you.page Saving files/dump/sites/www/admin.manage.page Saving files/dump/sites/www/admin.superuser.page PHP Deprecated: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated in /home/shane/Desktop/wikidot/lib/Text_Wiki/Text/Wiki/Parse/Default/Module.php on line 77 PHP Warning: pg_query(): Query failed: ERROR: function set_curcfg(unknown) does not exist LINE 1: SELECT set_curcfg('default') ^ HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need to add explicit type casts. in /home/shane/Desktop/wikidot/lib/ozone/php/core/database/PgConnection.php on line 104 PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'OzoneDatabaseException' with message 'error: ERROR: function set_curcfg(unknown) does not exist LINE 1: SELECT set_curcfg('default') ^ HINT: No function matches the given name and argument types. You might need to add explicit type casts. ' in /home/shane/Desktop/wikidot/lib/ozone/php/core/database/PgConnection.php:107 Stack trace: #0 /home/shane/Desktop/wikidot/php/utils/Indexer.php(75): PgConnection->query('SELECT set_curc...') #1 /home/shane/Desktop/wikidot/php/utils/Outdater.php(735): Indexer->indexPage(Object(DB_Page)) #2 /home/shane/Desktop/wikidot/php/utils/Outdater.php(68): Outdater->indexPage(Object(DB_Page)) #3 /home/shane/Desktop/wikidot/php/class/Wikidot/Facade/Page.php(282): Outdater->pageEvent('source_changed', Object(DB_Page)) #4 /home/shane/Desktop/wikidot/bin/bootstrap_pages.php(24): Wikidot_Facade_Page->save(Array) #5 {main} thrown in /home/shane/Desktop/wikidot/lib/ozone/php/core/database/PgConnection.php on line 107 make: *** [db] Error 255 

After reading up on "man make" I found that I could use -i (ignore errors) and -k (keep going after errors).

When I used those I actually reach the end and am given a URL to configure the super user but it doesn't work (probably something to do with the errors I ignored).

Something about needing to perform type casts in this file: PgConnection.php

If you'd like, I'll post the output for make -i -k … I think there's a huge amount of output for that one though, so by the time it finishes the first part is no longer visible even when I scroll upwards, and I can only copy and paste the second part into a comment here.

$ cd ~/Desktop/wikidot
$ su postgres
Password:
$ make prepare_db

and continue following the instructions.

Any ideas?

And yes I did download something that was more than 90 MB in size (possibly the "Zend Framework"), and am pretty sure I have all dependencies installed without errors.

I wrote a guide for doing this a long while ago. You shouldn't follow it to the letter since so much has changed since I did that, but getting Ubuntu installed in a VM should be pretty straight-forward. Once you get a clean Ubuntu base, you can copy that and have an easy fall back if something goes awry with the Wikidot install.

-Ed

 $ sudo aptitude install postgresql-8.3 php5-cgi php5-cli php5-pgsql lighttpd imagemagick tetex-bin tetex-extra gs-gpl php5-gd php5-tidy php-pear file git-core 

However due to slow internet speed, I'd rather download it from my Windows laptop (difference of 16 kbps compared to 1500 kbps).

I think I've found the correct files for most of them, but am unable to find:

• ImageMagick
• PHP gd extension
• PHP tidy extension
• file program (? what is this ?)
• Git to retrieve the source (? do I already have it on ubuntu ?)

A wiki provides an excellent way to share information. Most providers have annoying limitations or force you to show ads. Wikidot doesn't and has a nice community feel.

Do you have your own personal website to help people find you? With Wikidot you can easily create your own web presence. You can even use your own domain name like www.promodsharma.com.

What good is information you can't access? I collect inspirational and insightful quotations but I had trouble finding them at the right time. Thanks to Wikidot.com, I now have a nice repository at www.sparkinsight.com . What's more, others can also benefit.

I hate losing or misplacing information. So I put stuff on Wikidot.com whenever possible. I no longer worry about backups. A simple search finds what I want instantly. Beautiful!

You can build a wiki in steps. Before long, you'll have a meaningful site. Did I do that? Yes, with the help of Wikidot.com."

• current available version has almost no "cool" features from Wikidot.com
• it should be quite easy to migrate pages from Wikidot.com sites to open source version through the API (once it's done in Wikidot.com)
• update to the next revision should be quite nice though

I would recommend you to stay at wikidot.com and then migrate to open source once the next release is issues. Which probably be in the next school year.

One last thing, is there an easy way to transfer wikis from wikidot.com to a wikidot.org installation? This is a big question we are going to have to deal with as we now have a year's worth of work on the wikidot.com sites we would like to transfer over to our own wiki farm.

Thanks for all your help.

I found for instance a translation system in a *.tpl file:

 {ltext lang="en"} <p> Tags are a nice way to organize content in your Site. You can apply multiple tags (labels) to each of your pages. You can learn more what a tag is reading Wikipedia entries for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tags" target="_blank">Tags</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_cloud" target="_blank">Tag cloud</a>. </p> {/ltext} {ltext lang="pl"} <p> Tagi (etykiety) to dobry sposób na kategoryzowanie informacji na sajcie. Do każdej ze stron można dołączyć kilka tagów. </p> {/ltext} 

Thanks,
Karl3i.

-Ed

I have installed wikidot on Ubuntu, and I've downloaded the source from GIT.
I would like to translate wikidot in other languages (currently only Polish and English are supported). Are there translation file I can edit to do so?

Thanks,

Karl3i.

This is the first site where i can found a true solution!
Thanks a lot, Adriano.

and.. What are thinking about de IE developers when put this parameter????????????

Regards,

Zas

Wikidot already supports some tags needed for SEO (Search Engine Optimization), but it lacks 2 features that are a "must" for SEO.

(…)

Robots tag = "noindex"

Secondly, Wikidot could use the code bellow on non-existing pages, so that the search engines won't index pages with that default text:

> + The page does not (yet) exist.
>
> The page blablabla you want to access does not exist.
>
> * create page

This is not only duplicated content, but also hides our real contents behind these "keywords": "page", "exist", "create"… This is specially true on newly created wikis, not fully populated yet.

The code needed on these pages is:

[[code type="HTML"]]
<head>
…
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
…
</head>
[[/code]]

The same could be done to admin:manage (anyone wants it to appear on Google?).

Doing a quick search on Wikidot.org source files, I think I've found a way of implementing it. Maybe the solution for the robots=noindex on not found pages might be like the following (code starts on line 50 of http://github.com/gabrys/wikidot/blob/master/templates/layouts/WikiLayout.tpl):

 <? php // [...] Line 50: <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8"/> <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="{$site->getLanguage()}"/> // *************** NEW CODE START *************** {if $pageNotExists} <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> {/if} // **************** NEW CODE END **************** <script type="text/javascript" src="/common--javascript/WIKIDOT.js"></script> // and so on... ?> 

In my opinion it seems to be an easy solution for that problem of duplicated content and unwanted search keywords.

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!

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

hope this helps.

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

/tudgeek

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

php -v still says cli.

This should always say cli, because this is the binary you call from commandline (cli). This however should say cgi-fcgi:

php-cgi -v
php5-cgi -v

Cheers!

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

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

So I actually went ahead and installed php5-cgi again. And once thats done, reboot, run make again, and it is running! I can get to my page!

So php5-cgi was somehow missing since the beginning. It is either not installed, or not properly installed when installing all the packages together (I reinstalled everything from scratch 3 times before I started asking for help here). Which is weird.

Thank you very much for all your help Gabrys! :)

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

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

"bin-path" => "/usr/bin/php5-cgi"

in conf/lighttpd/single-wiki.conf

execute that command with "-v" and check if it says cgi or cli. (You should have php5-cgi installed before).

PHP 5.2.10-2ubuntu6.3 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Nov 26 2009 14:42:49)

2009-12-29 22:17:27: (log.c.97) server started
2009-12-29 22:17:27: (mod_fastcgi.c.1051) the fastcgi-backend /usr/bin/php5-cgi failed to start:
2009-12-29 22:17:27: (mod_fastcgi.c.1055) child exited with status 2 /usr/bin/php5-cgi
2009-12-29 22:17:27: (mod_fastcgi.c.1058) If you're trying to run PHP as a FastCGI backend, make sure you're using the FastCGI-enabled version.
You can find out if it is the right one by executing 'php -v' and it should display '(cgi-fcgi)' in the output, NOT '(cgi)' NOR '(cli)'.
For more information, check http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3AModFastCGI#preparing-php-as-a-fastcgi-programIf this is PHP on Gentoo, add 'fastcgi' to the USE flags.
2009-12-29 22:17:27: (mod_fastcgi.c.1365) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed.
2009-12-29 22:17:27: (server.c.902) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
2009-12-30 13:53:26: (log.c.97) server started
2009-12-30 13:53:26: (mod_fastcgi.c.1051) the fastcgi-backend /usr/bin/php5-cgi failed to start:
2009-12-30 13:53:26: (mod_fastcgi.c.1055) child exited with status 2 /usr/bin/php5-cgi
2009-12-30 13:53:26: (mod_fastcgi.c.1058) If you're trying to run PHP as a FastCGI backend, make sure you're using the FastCGI-enabled version.
You can find out if it is the right one by executing 'php -v' and it should display '(cgi-fcgi)' in the output, NOT '(cgi)' NOR '(cli)'.
For more information, check http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3AModFastCGI#preparing-php-as-a-fastcgi-programIf this is PHP on Gentoo, add 'fastcgi' to the USE flags.
2009-12-30 13:53:26: (mod_fastcgi.c.1365) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed.
2009-12-30 13:53:26: (server.c.902) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
2009-12-30 17:10:21: (log.c.97) server started
2009-12-30 17:10:21: (mod_fastcgi.c.1051) the fastcgi-backend /usr/bin/php5-cgi failed to start:
2009-12-30 17:10:21: (mod_fastcgi.c.1055) child exited with status 2 /usr/bin/php5-cgi
2009-12-30 17:10:21: (mod_fastcgi.c.1058) If you're trying to run PHP as a FastCGI backend, make sure you're using the FastCGI-enabled version.
You can find out if it is the right one by executing 'php -v' and it should display '(cgi-fcgi)' in the output, NOT '(cgi)' NOR '(cli)'.
For more information, check http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3AModFastCGI#preparing-php-as-a-fastcgi-programIf this is PHP on Gentoo, add 'fastcgi' to the USE flags.
2009-12-30 17:10:21: (mod_fastcgi.c.1365) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed.
2009-12-30 17:10:21: (server.c.902) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
2009-12-30 17:59:24: (log.c.97) server started
2009-12-30 17:59:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.1051) the fastcgi-backend /usr/bin/php5-cgi failed to start:
2009-12-30 17:59:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.1055) child exited with status 2 /usr/bin/php5-cgi
2009-12-30 17:59:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.1058) If you're trying to run PHP as a FastCGI backend, make sure you're using the FastCGI-enabled version.
You can find out if it is the right one by executing 'php -v' and it should display '(cgi-fcgi)' in the output, NOT '(cgi)' NOR '(cli)'.
For more information, check http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3AModFastCGI#preparing-php-as-a-fastcgi-programIf this is PHP on Gentoo, add 'fastcgi' to the USE flags.
2009-12-30 17:59:24: (mod_fastcgi.c.1365) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed.
2009-12-30 17:59:24: (server.c.902) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
2010-01-01 15:00:18: (log.c.97) server started
2010-01-01 15:00:18: (mod_fastcgi.c.1051) the fastcgi-backend /usr/bin/php5-cgi failed to start:
2010-01-01 15:00:18: (mod_fastcgi.c.1055) child exited with status 2 /usr/bin/php5-cgi
2010-01-01 15:00:18: (mod_fastcgi.c.1058) If you're trying to run PHP as a FastCGI backend, make sure you're using the FastCGI-enabled version.
You can find out if it is the right one by executing 'php -v' and it should display '(cgi-fcgi)' in the output, NOT '(cgi)' NOR '(cli)'.
For more information, check http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3AModFastCGI#preparing-php-as-a-fastcgi-programIf this is PHP on Gentoo, add 'fastcgi' to the USE flags.
2010-01-01 15:00:18: (mod_fastcgi.c.1365) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed.
2010-01-01 15:00:18: (server.c.902) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.
2010-01-02 11:16:03: (log.c.97) server started
2010-01-02 11:16:03: (mod_fastcgi.c.1051) the fastcgi-backend /usr/bin/php5-cgi failed to start:
2010-01-02 11:16:03: (mod_fastcgi.c.1055) child exited with status 2 /usr/bin/php5-cgi
2010-01-02 11:16:03: (mod_fastcgi.c.1058) If you're trying to run PHP as a FastCGI backend, make sure you're using the FastCGI-enabled version.
You can find out if it is the right one by executing 'php -v' and it should display '(cgi-fcgi)' in the output, NOT '(cgi)' NOR '(cli)'.
For more information, check http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3AModFastCGI#preparing-php-as-a-fastcgi-programIf this is PHP on Gentoo, add 'fastcgi' to the USE flags.
2010-01-02 11:16:03: (mod_fastcgi.c.1365) [ERROR]: spawning fcgi failed.
2010-01-02 11:16:03: (server.c.902) Configuration of plugins failed. Going down.

bin/configure.php

Once you have both *.ini files in conf/wikidot, go to your Wikidot root directory and run this as root:

lighttpd -D -f conf/lighttpd/single_wiki.conf

This is what Wikidot calls in order to run Lighttpd. Additionally here's the -D flag, that makes Lighttpd not go to background. If errors don't show on the consele, they should be logged to tmp/lighttpd/error.log (in Wikidot root directory).

Put here any errors on console or logged to file.

port 8080 is not being listed. So I guess wikidot is not binding to lighttpd properly. What should be configured so that it would bind to lighttpd? Thanks.

Alex

1. netstat -natp | grep lighttpd

This should return at least two lines, one for default :80 lighttpd server, second for lighttpd run from wikidotctl. If you have indeed two different ports listed (for example :80 and :8080) try http://127.0.0.1:8080/ in your browser to see what Lighttpd has to say :-).

Yes, I did use that to start wikidot, and it did give me a message stating that wikidot has started, without any errors. So I assume everything has been installed correctly.

Do I need to make any manual configurations or changes to other files in order to get this to work? For example, the ones mentioned in the previous posts, or any other files that you can think of?

Alex

/etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf
/wikidot/conf/lighttpd/wikidot_ini.conf
/wikidot/conf/lighttpd/single_wiki.conf
/wikidot/conf/lighttpd/wikidot_ini.conf.orig

I did modify /wikidot/conf/wikidot.ini to not use wikidot as username and password though.

Thanks,
Alex

I want to setup a Wikidot site from home and I have encounter a trouble.

I am using Ubuntu Server 9.10 and it is running on Virtualbox. I followed the guide at http://www.wikidot.org/installation-guide , and even though I have encountered different issues before, everything is set up right now.

However, when I enter the link at the end of 'make', I get "Internet explorer cannot display the webpage". I also tried using Firefox (which is recommended for wikidot) and I am still unable to load the page.

I have tried loading the page from another computer on the same network, using the IP of this ubuntu machine; as well as using the local host IP directly from the ubuntu machine. Both of which have similar results.

When loading the IP without specifying port 8080 (ie. using the default port 80), I do get the default page from lightpd, so I know lighttpd is working.

Would someone be able to enlighten me in the right direction if they haev encountered this? Or if anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Alex

http://github.com/gabrys/wikidot

To Iframe transparent background n IE6, just put this style on the Iframe

 filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(opacity=70); 

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Hugs, Adriano

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.

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

Please note that if the code contains <script type="text/javascript"… i.e. just JavaScript, the content will not be fully rendered when you click preview while editing the page. It should be there however when you view the page afterwards.
[[iframe]] element

Using the iframe element one can embed content of any other web page. The syntax is

[[iframe http://www.google.com] height (0) width (0)]

and it translates into HTML tags <iframe src="url-source" attributes></iframe>. The allowed attributes are: frameborder (0 or 1 allowed), align (left, right, top, bottom, middle), height (number of pixels or %), width (number of pixels or %), scrolling (yes or no), class, style

Thank you very much.

insert into site values (DEFAULT, 'Forum', null, 'template-en', null, null, null, false, start, true, false);

I couldn't insert the site_id = 0. It created a site_id 111 used below.

insert into site_settings values (111, true, null,null, 314572800, false, 'system:join', 50, 20, true, null, false, false, 10485760, true);

insert into forum_settings values ( 111, null, 'true', 500);

insert into category values (DEFAULT, 111, 'forum', true, 20, false, 'e:;c:;m:;d:;a:;r:;z:;o:', true, 1, null, true, null, null, null, true, true, null, null, null, true, false, false, null);

Then I had to create all the forum pages using the instructions here

I might have put the wrong permissions but it seems to be working for now.

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.