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 ?

Thanks this worked splendidly and themes are installed and ready to implement. Now to get the rest of this thing working :)

You need to add themes to proper table in database and to Wikidot files (under common—files/themes or similar). Once you locate it in database and filesystem (can't remember the name now), it should be quite easy for you to do it based on already supplied themes.

I have created a number of custom themes for wikidot when using wikidot.com and now that I am using wikidot.org I would like to make them more integrated into the setup, since they are the branding for the school where we are setting the wikis up. I was wondering how I could change the pulldown menu under appearance to add the styles that I have created (as well as the alternate styles). Is that pulldown constructed by pulling from the themes in the theme folder or is it pre-built into the site.

Thanks
Kimon

I am not an expert but from what I have gathered from playing around with wikidot.org and emailing the developers wikidot only works with subdomains and not subfolders. In other words you can't do what you mentioned above:

https://wiki.mydomain/project1 and https://wiki.mydomain/project2

but you can do

http://project1.wiki.mydomain and http://project2.wiki.mydomain

In fact that is how wikidot is set up to run by default and if you set up a wildcard with your domain host as *.wiki.mydomain pointing to your server wikidot.org will manage the different wikis on the wiki farm.

Trying to use different external themes for categories. For instance have one style sheet set for default but want front page to look different so have created a different style sheet and a front: category that I want to assign that style sheet to. Can't assign the different style to the subcategory, chooses one of the installed themes instead (i think bloo).

I think this is a bug because this is something I was able to do in wikidot.com relatively easily.

New installation of Wikidot.org here for an academic institution that will user the site for classes, symposia, research and other uses. There are a number of places where I am getting dialog boxes with exposed HTML code that don't do anything rather than the appropriate page opening. They are at the following places:

When I go to look at/edit my profile under My Account.
When I go to Send Email Invitations in the admin section.
When I go to activate the forum (in this case it is not HTML that appears but simply the url of the site I am working on and I cannot get the forum to activate.

I'm setting up a wikidot.org installation for courses at my academic institution and would like the sites to be private. However, I am having problems setting up the system:join pages and auth:login pages to work correctly when the site is set up in private mode. Even if I put the login module on my non-member landing page (system:join) it won't let me login. I think that this is because that module is trying to make a request to a page that the non-logged in person can't access because of the private status. This works perfectly fine on wikidot.com and wonder if it is just a configuration issue or a code problem.

This is one of a number of problems I am having and would appreciate any help people can provide on the different threads I am adding.

It's been a while since I tried a WDOS install, but the last time I did, I had the same problem. I installed some extra packages listed in an old install guide I wrote and captcha started to work after that. Sorry, I have no idea which package solved the problem.

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

-Ed

We have a problem where the captcha only displays correctly in Safari. The captcha doesn't display correctly in any other Web browsers.

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!

I have an existing web server that runs Apache, and would like to have a wikidot wiki on it.
The server is behind a firewall that I don't control; it can only serve to the outside world on port 80, so I can't just run wikidot on a different port and be done with it.

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.

Hi there,

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

My site http://incoso.wikidot.com works fine in different browsers, only in IE6 the top bar doesn't show. Any idea how I could fix this?

Are you trying to install Wikidot in a WAMP environment? I'm not aware of anyone who has had any luck doing that. You'd be better off installing VirtualBox and setting it up on a virtual PC with a Linux install.

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?

I've downloaded and installed wamp - c:\wamp and created a database but my program doesn't access it. Where do I find documentation for using Wamp?
The page from which I downloaded it says just load it and use it - well, no!

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

There are logged in users that regularly spam Wikidot (probably they are robots) with links to external sites.

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.

Ah, whoops. Thanks, that worked. Was in wrong directory.

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.

You issue make in wrong directory. Do:

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

and continue following the instructions.

Wait — did I read that CSIs are available in the open source version? This is closer to the wikidot.com version than I expected. I thought .org was at least a year behind! :D

Gabrys, I've run into the same error message.

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.