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These installation steps use Apache web server on Linux as an example. TWiki should run on other web servers and Unix systems as well. |
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- Request the TWiki distribution (in Unix ZIP format) from http://www.mindspring.net/~peterthoeny/twiki/index.html .
- Create directory
/home/httpd/twiki and unzip the TWiki distribution to this directory.
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twiki/bin directory of TWiki must be set as a cgi-bin directory. Add /home/httpd/twiki/bin to /etc/httpd/conf/access.conf with only ExecCGI option.
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- Edit the file
twiki/bin/wikicfg.pm and set the variables at the beginning of the file to your needs.
- Make sure RCS is installed. In case RCS is not in the
path environment variable, add it to path . Alternatively, add the full path name to the rcs, ci, co, rlog, rcsdiff commands in the variables of twiki/bin/wikicfg.pm .
- Point your browser at http://your.domain.com/twiki/bin/view and start wiki-ing away!
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- Note in case cgi user is not
nobody : The *,v RCS repository files delivered with the installation package are locked by user nobody . In case the user is different (e.g. www-data ), it is not possible to check in files, this has the effect that the topic version number does not increase when saving a topic. In this case you need to unlock all repository files and lock them as user www-data , or simply delete all the repository files.
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- Security issue: Directories
twiki/data , twiki/templates and all its subdirectories should be set so that they are not visible as a URL. (Alternatively, move the directries to a place where they are not visible, and change the variables in twiki/bin/wikicfg.pm accordingly)
- Optional: You can add new rendering rules or new %variables%. To insure an easy upgrade of TWiki it is recommended to do this customization in
twiki/bin/wikicfg.pm , not twiki/bin/wiki.pm .
- Optional: If you are on a public server and you would like to authenticate users you need to rename file
.htaccess.txt in the twiki/bin directory to .htaccess and change it to your needs. Consult the HTTP server documentation for details.
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- If needed, create customized templates in the new templates directory. (Non existing templates are inherited from
twiki/templates )
- If you want to use a category table, copy the three files twikicatitems.tmpl, twikicatedit.tmpl and twikicatview.tmpl from the
twiki/templates/Know directory to the new templates directory, and customize it. The TWiki Category Table section has more.
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directory twiki/bin :
drwxr-xr-x 5 twiki t5 512 Nov 11 02:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 twiki t5 512 Nov 6 02:57 ..
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< | drwxrwxrwx 6 twiki t5 512 Nov 6 03:13 data
drwxr-xr-x 6 twiki t5 512 Nov 4 20:34 templates |
| | -rw-r--r-- 1 twiki t5 430 Oct 21 18:51 .htaccess |
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< | -rwxrwxrwx 1 twiki t5 3752 Mar 27 02:21 attach
-rwxr-xr-x 1 twiki t5 2810 Oct 21 18:51 changes
-rwxrwxrwx 1 twiki t5 1244 Mar 27 02:21 delete |
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> | -rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 3752 Mar 27 02:21 attach
-rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 2810 Oct 21 18:51 changes
-rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 1244 Mar 27 02:21 delete |
| | -rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 2589 Nov 6 03:05 edit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 twiki t5 4614 Oct 21 18:52 mailnotify
-rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 1353 Oct 23 20:19 oops |
| | -rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 6249 Aug 3 04:34 register
-rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 6890 Nov 11 03:06 rdiff
-rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 1819 Nov 6 03:06 save |
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-rwxrwxrwx 1 twiki t5 6696 Mar 27 02:22 upload |
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> | -rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 3174 Oct 21 18:51 search
-rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 6696 Mar 27 02:22 upload |
| | -rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 3878 Nov 11 03:06 view |
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| | -rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 16169 Nov 7 01:43 wiki.pm
-rw-r-xr-x 1 twiki t5 3945 Jun 23 01:24 wikicfg.pm
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-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody 65535 3653 Oct 21 18:52 WebSearch.txt
-r--r--r-- 1 nobody 65535 3835 Oct 27 02:45 WebSearch.txt,v |
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< | -rw-rw-rw- 1 twiki t5 7 Oct 21 18:52 webcolor.inc
-rw-rw-rw- 1 twiki t5 278 May 20 17:42 webcopyright.inc
-rw-rw-rw- 1 twiki t5 402 Oct 26 07:45 weblist.inc |
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> | -rw-r--r-- 1 twiki t5 7 Oct 21 18:52 webcolor.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 twiki t5 278 May 20 17:42 webcopyright.inc
-rw-r--r-- 1 twiki t5 402 Oct 26 07:45 weblist.inc |
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directory twiki/pub/ : |
| | -- PeterThoeny - 14 Jun 1999
-- PeterThoeny - 23 Jun 1999
-- PeterThoeny - 01 Sep 1999
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> | -- PeterThoeny - 29 Sep 1999
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