Wikidot Open Source

I have just gone trough this line "…host big farms of wikis on a regular Linux computer." on wikidot's home page .
I know HTML and php .Does anybody have Idea that What knowledge does it needed to install and make it work ?

Im sure some kind of experience with linux and web servers is definitely going to be a big help. Nevertheless what stops you from trying, since it is so easy these days to install ubuntu to a usb hard disk and have it both ways

Hello!

i tried to install wikidot on my home server - running a somewhat current debian squeeze version.

First thing I noted is that the git submodule spyc from

git://git.utsl.gen.nz/mirror/repo.or.cz/spyc.git

could not be fetched. Therefore I downloaded the version directly from sourceforge http://code.google.com/p/spyc/.

Then i used the postgresql-8.4 version to install tetex-bin tetex-extra seemed already be outdated and i did not use them. When running make the error occurs that the function set_curcfg does not exist. After some searching i found that this function is part of the tsearch2 module which is part of the postgresql-contrib package. After installing the package and running the sql file on the database (psql wikidot < tsearch2.sql) the next error occured -
Uncaught exception 'OzoneDatabaseException' with message 'error: ERROR: invalid value for parameter "default_text_search_config": "default".

/var/log/postgresql/postgresql-8.4-main.log dumps errors like that:

CET ERROR:  schema "ts2" does not exist
CET ERROR:  function set_curcfg(unknown) does not exist at character 8

So i was wondering if the Open Source version is still supported and if anyone has a solution to the problem?

Best Regards
Christian

I think the Open Source project is dead. Rather than re-type everything from a post I made almost a year ago, you can read it here:
http://www.wikidot.org/forum/t-304073/postgresql-8-1-wikidot#post-989994

The short version is that I have been successfully running an older version of WDOS for a few years, but the current version seems to be difficult/impossible to install cleanly. I haven't messed with it in a long while and I'm just enough of a Linux noob that I have trouble problem-solving issues when I run into them.

Since the version I'm running as well as the current version here are both far, far behind the current feature set of wikidot.com, I have a hard time recommending WDOS to anyone at this point.

Ed