Wikidot Open Source

But first of all — did you copy conf/GlobalProperties.php.orig into conf/GlobalProperties.php?

Did not get that…

I also tried to make an install on my free host at http://x10hosting.com/, but received a similar error:

Warning: require_once(/home/eleee/public_html/wikidot/conf/GlobalProperties.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/eleee/public_html/wikidot/php/setup.php on line 43

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/home/eleee/public_html/wikidot/conf/GlobalProperties.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/eleee/public_html/wikidot/php/setup.php on line 43

No offense, but I find it rather strange that such a prestigious application as Wikidot have not yet been tested on Windows, nor is much or even any support yet available for Windows, the most popular OS in the world (yes I know, probably not true for web hosting, but still).

Also, even though I know this release is meant to be great for learning purposes, I really feel like the install-process is way too hard to figure out for any non-tech users. With apps like Joomla! and SMF, I never ever had to even glance at an install document. I hope this has been improved for the 2.0 version, although I'd love to get started already with version one, seeing as I have big plans for Wikidot.

Hope this didn't all sound to harsh, I still think Wikidot is the best wiki to date :)

Wikidot should certainly be tested (and adapted to) various environments. The reason it is not is that so far we have been using just a few different ones: Gentoo, CentOS, Debian, Ubunty, MacOsX — all of them being Unix systems, and we had admin-access to all the systems so that we could easily modify the software to our needs. And until very recently our Wikidot was a "single-installation software", i.e. our priority was to make it run smoothly on the server (wikidot.com), not any server.

I think getting Wikidot work on Windows should be one of the priorities. Unfortunately none of us was using Windows :-( but I think we can do it. This could be exactly where community developers could help — all the patches and improvements will be gladly accepted.

And yes, Wikidot 2.0 is/will be more flexible "by design". It is also much easier to test on various platforms — it already has more than 200 automatic unit tests (for transformations, parsers, database etc.) and our goal is to cover almost all core functionality.