Wikidot Open Source

I ran through an install from scratch on my spare machine (the one I've wiped and installed Wikidot OS on at least 100 times!). Generally, things went well. I had a few issues that I was able to work through:

• syntax error(?) in git submodule update --init
• problems with postgresql db until I straightened out a user permissions problem (my fault - not the docs!)
• captcha/turing code would not display initially (I think a package was missing, but I'm not sure which one. I installed other packages listed in my install guide and after a reboot it worked.)
• missing pages: admin:manage and account:you - created them manually (see Bug 3)
• had to set up [mail] section in wikidot.ini in order to get e-mail working so I could set up a new account
• account verification "failed", but I was still able to login.

I want to run another test install and clearly document my steps as i go. Looking at the TODO list, it seems you are aware of a few things that could cause problems.

Overall, this wasn't too bad, but it's not ready to be called a "simple" install yet.

Nice work!

-Ed

Hi,

I have followed all the steps to have a single wiki instance running on my local machine, following the guide in installation-guide
Now, I want to configure it as a wiki farm in a way that a registered user can go to the main page and create a new wiki on-demand (as in http://www.wikidot.com).

You mention that "start from getting single-wiki Wikidot running and then use older docs to figure out how to get it running as a wiki-farm" but I haven't found any old documents explaining how to configure wikidot to run as a wiki farm.

I tried to connect to IRC channel but it seems that no one is connected at this time.

Can you please help me and point me to the right documentation?

Thanks,
Rui

There are basically two options.

• safe but quite deprecated (no upgrades)

Install 463 revision from SVN (this is reported to be a stable revision).

• bleeding edge (may not work yet perfectly stable)

Install from git (as you did) and set wiki_farm = true in config file in the [main] section. This also means, you need to configure other options as well: (see full-example-of-wikidot.ini to get a general overview, you need something like this to start working: http://svn.wikidot.org/svn/showfile.svn?path=%2Fwikidot1%2Ftrunk%2Fconf%2Fwikidot.ini&revision=463&name=wikidotorg).

Notice in this way, you need to run the service on port 80 (so start as a root, but edit user and group settings in lighttpd.conf to let it drop permissions after opening the port). Also you need to access the wiki by domain name, like http://www.YOURDOMAIN/. Anything else would give you "No such site" error.

You'll probably need template.YOURDOMAIN wiki. I think it's not included in the dump. We're going to finally make it working right even for wiki_farm (as TODO states), but this can take some time.

This is all quite complicated, this is why we decided to support single wikis as well, because it removes many of mentioned problems.

I'm available on IRC very often, I think talking via IRC would be nice, because you could do your work and ask about subsequent problems just as they appear :).

I apologize that I have not had much time to do any testing recently. Our golf season is relatively short where I live (St Paul, Minnesota, USA) so my computer hobby takes a back seat to golf this time of year!

I will make an effort to determine which SVN version is stable. I'm currently running rev. 393 at my work. That is very stable, but is lacking in some of the features that have been implemented since then. I would recommend that you set up a virtual machine and load my ISO that I created for rev 393. You can read the guide I wrote here: Installable ISO and a Virtual Machine. There is also a link to download the ISO file. This would be an easy way to to get a base, fully configured system running that you could then update from the SVN repository. This is the method I will use to see which rev seems to work well.

I will also try to make time to run another test with the GIT repository and see if I can get the wiki farm capabilities working.

As Gabrys said, I wouldn't try to get a production server running with the GIT repository just yet. Did you find any issues that were not expected in the current installation-guide? If so, please let me know - I will probably give this a try sometime this weekend.

-Ed

use [[module NewSite]] instead of [[module NewWiki]]

There is some bug in the Duplicator, I'll check that!

Thanks for that!

You can use the ISO image from Ed in VMWare as well.

As far as I know, if you can mount the ISO image, you should be able to install it into any VM. I have only used Virtual Box for this project, and have limited familiarity with VMWare Player, so I can't say for sure how it will work.

If you do get it to work, please add a How-To to my site!

Thanks,
Ed