Total number of visits to this site:
tsangk 1210732803|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Now a problem:
Whenever I attempt to access the site, in the New Users section, Admin is always recreated like this:
;-) Admin 2 seconds ago
When I upload files, it sorta works….
It uploads to http://lanwiki.com/local--files/start/file.file
but it links to http://lanwiki.com/files--sites/start/file.file
which doesn't have anything!
Stephen Kay 1210519356|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Hello? I love wikidot, but can't a developer check this out or give some advice?
Stephen Kay, 1210519356|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Stephen Kay 1210111775|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
bump? Really need to get an answer from the developers on this…. thanks…
Stephen Kay, 1210111775|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
thomasn 1209949744|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Markdown — see Wikipedia — is becoming really well supported, with loads of tools to convert to (and in some cases from) HTML, PDF, LaTeX, DocBook, groff etc etc. This makes it a great choice as a standard doc format, much easier to write than an XML dialect, and also a good choice as a simple wiki format.
You can see some of the available engines in action at
http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/?markdown=++*+foo%0D%0A%0D%0Abar ,
or have a look at the converter at http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/try
The PHP implementation is one of the most solid. Is there any interest in adding an option to use the portable Markdown syntax instead of the (probably more powerful) Wikidot syntax?
— Thomas.
Stephen Kay 1209890983|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
(this is a posting of a message that I posted at wikidot.com, I'm sort of desperate…)
I am trying to insert a flash generated menu bar in the top of my wiki site. I am using iframe to do it, and it works perfectly on Safari, Firefox, and IE 7. You can see it here on this test page, under the top graphic (there is also still the normal wiki top menu bar as well, which I would remove later):
http://karma-lab.wikidot.com/sandbox:menubar-test
It uses swfobject.js with a setting of wmode = transparent to embed the flash menu bar, inside the html file that is [[iframed]] (source is included below).
The problem is that in IE6, the iframe is NOT transparent, it has a white background, completely covering the page for about 300 pixels down.
If I use the "IE DOM Inspector" plug-in in IE6 to "live edit" the html being displayed, the only thing that works is to add allowTransparency="true" to the <iframe> tag. Instantly, the iframe is transparent and it works as expected.
However, there seems to be no way to actually influence the setting of this from within wikidot, or from the CSS sheet. allowTransparency seems to be an html only parameter, and it is not one of the ones that wikidot allows to be set using [[iframe]]. As you can see from the source below, I try to set it in multiple different places in the CSS file and the wiki source, just for the heck of it.
Any way to get around this? I'd really like to use this flash top menu, but if it can't work on IE 6, I think I have to bag it. Sad, after spending like two days figuring out how to get this far. Here's my source:
The test page in the wiki:
[[div class="menubar-wrapper"]]
[[iframe http://www.mydomain.com/flashobj/wiki-menubar_nt.html class="menubar-iframe" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="668" height="300" allowTransparency="true"]]
[[/div]]
The iframed file:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css" media="all"><!--
#menubar { }
--></style>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/flashobj/swfobject.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function changeSize(id, value)
{
document.getElementById(id).style.height = value + 'px';
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="menubar" style="height:30px; width:668px; left:0px; top:0px; position:absolute; margin:auto; overflow:hidden;" onmouseover="changeSize('menubar', 300);" onmouseout="changeSize('menubar', 30);">
MenuBar
<script type="text/javascript">
var swf100 = new SWFObject("wiki-topmenu.swf", "MenuBar", "668", "300", "7.0.22", "#000000", true)
swf100.addParam("scaleMode","noscale");
swf100.addParam("align","TL");
swf100.addParam("allowScriptAccess","sameDomain");
swf100.addParam("wmode", "transparent");
swf100.write("menubar")
</script>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The applicable CSS:
.menubar-iframe {
allowTransparency:true;
}
.menubar-wrapper {
allowTransparency:true;
height:30px;
width:668px;
overflow:visible;
position:absolute;
top:94px;
left:250px;
right:0px;
margin-right:auto;
margin-left:auto;
z-index:200;
}
.menubar-wrapper p {
margin:0px;
allowTransparency:true;
}
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tsangk 1209890795|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Can't it be something like *.lanwiki.com?
Ed Johnson 1209611325|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Congratulations! I forgot about the need for ".com" in the site url. I jumped so many hurdles before finally getting my install working, it's easy to lose track. You can edit the hosts file as the sudo user. Here's a portion of my first home network install guide (without the scripts):
- Open the File Browser window you minimized earlier
(or open a terminal window and > $ sudo nautilus again).
- Navigate to the /etc folder and find the hosts file.
- Right-click and Open with "Text Editor"
- Edit the file so it resembles below (the only lines I added are in red).
- Substitute your server name for ejwiki.
- Note that any new wiki sites created will have to be added manually to the hosts file (i.e newwikisite.ejwiki.com)
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 ejwiki.hsd1.mn.comcast.net. ejwiki
127.0.0.1 www.ejwiki.com profiles.ejwiki.com
127.0.0.1 templates-en.ejwiki.com test.ejwiki.com
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
- Save the file.
tsangk 1209605883|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Yes! Got it running!
It was because I was running it in LAN and in the GlobalProperties.php file, I set:
Website Address as = "lanwiki"
rather than
Website Address as = "lanwiki.com"
After I changed it, I was working!!!
I tried the Australia option in the install. It failed in most of the apps, some apps like apt-get install ubuntu-desktop memcached
The option with language has to be United States but the Time Zone can be anything. I am going to be changing the guide.
I know that the hosts file can not be updated automaticly but are there any solutions?
Ed Johnson 1209400473|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Did you resolve "The site does not exist" issue? I had that problem until I edited my hosts file.
It doesn't make sense that a language/time zone setting would cause the install to fail. I'm in the Central Time Zone, not Eastern, so I don't think that was the issue.
If you have a working install, you should edit my guide to cover the areas that tripped you up and what you did to fix them.
-Ed
mccalleyt 1209379005|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
I as well would like to see the possibility of editing meta tags for Google's Webmaster tools.
tsangk 1209292797|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
BTW both WIkidot Home network install and the easier one requires United States installation language and Eastern time…… I live in Australia and it didn't work! It took me a while to work out!
tsangk 1209292684|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
I installed Wikidot V1 using the Easier Wikidot Home Network Install.
All went well!
But when I tried to access the site, it said "The site does not exist."
Can anyone help?
BTW it is only Home Network….
thevisitor 1208873912|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
It would be really nice to have some way of editing the META tags. Yes, they may be abused at times by spammers. And no: they aren't dead, or completely ignored by search engines.
One particular area where they would be useful, are the Google Webmaster Tools. The functionality seems very similar to the one for Google Analytics - you get a key, and the system makes a simple tag out of it. So for starters, it could be adapted from that '3rd party tool'. (Also note that there are many people screaming for it over at wikidot forums.)
I would be happy if the Webmaster Tools were available. But the general capability to edit Meta tags would be very useful by itself.
drexoll 1208499735|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Ok SO next I tried keeping Apache set to port 80 (so I changed it back) and forwarding port 8081 to port 80.
So now when I go to www.sadlynotworkingwiki.com:8081 I get the following:
The site does not exist.
This is the same problem I had when I was first setting things up but had failed to use wild cards.
I have originally had it working at home, where port 80 is not blocked. But now it is at work with and our ADSL supplier there block port 80. Very sad. I can of course take it back home but my wife hates having computers on all the time so one less there makes marriage more blissful. ;)
shannong 1208435304|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
The co-administrator of one of my wikis seems to have been suddenly blocked from all access to anything to do with Wikidot.com about 2 hours ago (as of this timestamp). I fear that perhaps his IP address might have been added to the Global IP Block List mentioned in our sites Site Manger pages, but there seems to be no way to check the Global IP Block List.
This person is in no way, shape, or form a spammer of any sort. I've advised him to send an email to your support address, but in the future is there some way to troubleshoot issues like this by checking whether somebody has been added to the Global IP Block List before bothering Wikidot support?
More information on this problem. I had my partner do a traceroute from his computer, and compared it to a traceroute from my own computer (I can successfully see all of wikidot.com, but he cannot).
It looks like your wikidot.com servers are hosted by some 3rd party datacenter in Dallas, TX, USA. In my successful traceroute to our specific wiki URL, the destination machine is as2-1.s.wikidot.com, and the router immediately before it is po1.fcr03.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com. (And there are a few more dallas.datacenter.com router hops before those last two.)
In my partner's traceroute, he's getting 100% packet loss at the next hop immediately after po1.fcr03.dal01.dallas-datacenter.com, which means his ping packets (and all other packets, apparently) are being rejected by as2-1.s.wikidot.com. But all my packets, including ping packets, are getting through to that server just fine.
This would seem to conclusively indicate that either his specific IP address or perhaps a subnet address that contains his specific IP address is being globally blocked by wikidot.com. He's on a Verizon network in New Jersey, USA. Did you recently add some Verizon subnet to your Global IP Block List to deal with some spammer originating from that network?
shannong, 1208435304|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
drexoll 1208377388|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
I have changed the port Apache is listening to, to port 8081. and I have forwarded that port in my firewall. But when I try to go to the wiki www.sadlynotworkingwiki.com:8081 I get the following error:
Not Found
The requested URL / was not found on this server.
Apache/2.2.4 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.3-1ubuntu6.3 Server at www.sadlynotworkingwiki.com Port 8081
Any ideas?
Note I am a noob.
Checking for life…
You guys (assuming you are infact still a group of developers working on this together now) are in serious need of a project manager, and I'd be happy to volunteer, free of charge. My only requirement would be communication…
Witness 1206664990|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Hi, templates can expand variables passed in like {$number_books}. Would be helpful to be able to link to a template page passing variables in a LINK, like mypage?num_books=20. This way, template can be used as is filling necessary info in a link. Say I have a page that is good for a number of stocks but has some elements that depend on a stock symbol. I can define it as a template but I need to create a separate page for each stock just to pass in symbol as a parameter. It would be nice if I can do that in a link reference directly.
Gabrys 1206363003|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
Fixed now in SVN. Thanks for pointing that out. :)
Due to the game project I'm a part of I'm an avid user of MediaWiki myself, and it kills a little part of me every day that I use it… Still, you seem to be leaving out the big thing that currently sets these two applications apart: MediaWiki can be installed on pretty much any web-host, even most free ones, in a few simple mouseclicks, basically no web development knowledge needed. Whereas Wikidot requires a whooole lot more know-how in order to even get close…
What also brings me down is the fact that the main developer behind this software still haven't found it in him to come by this thread and make a proper reply, trying to clear up in a few things here. I think many important issues have been raised here, but noone seems very interested in addressing them.
