Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Installation Help

[Reini U. <ru...@x-...>]

Arthaey Angosii schrieb:
> I recently downloaded phpwiki-1.3.10 onto my Mandrake 9.2 computer,
> running MySQL 4.0.15, PHP (looks like version 4.3.2, maybe... how do I
> check?), and Apache2 (mod_perl/1.99_09 Perl/v5.8.1 auth_mysql/1.11
> mod_ssl/2.0.47 OpenSSL/0.9.7b PHP/4.3.2). I have several questions
> about installing PhpWiki, and this mailing list seemed the best place
> to ask them. So:
> 
> 1. When I extracted the tarball, the files all had user id of 1000 and
> group id of 513. I have no such user or group ids defined on my
> system. Are these just standard ids for PhpWiki, or do I have a
> problem? If the former, what would be some good names to assign to
> those numbers? If the latter, what needs to be fixed?

I produced the tar on cygwin. The strange id's reflect the strange uid's 
which the windows OS gives its users:

$ id rurban
uid=1000(rurban) gid=544(root) Gruppen=544(root),513(phpwiki)

The tar format stores the uid and gid numbers with the names. If you 
don't have those symbolic names on your box the extracted files will get 
the numeric id's.
$ info tar

Previous releases had user.group swain.staff

> 2. I installed MySQL for use with PhpWiki. I followed the installation
> guide and part of the tutorial for MySQL; it appears to be running
> fine. INSTALL-mysql tells me to edit index.php's $DBParams -- but
> there's no mention of it in my index.php! Grepping for "DBParams" show
> that it appears in several lib files, SOAP.php and wiki, but not in
> index.php. What happened?

we changed the config location from /index.php to config/config.ini with 
1.3.10 and didn't update all docs yet.

> 3. Supposedly PhpWiki works out of the box -- but what directory
> should I set this box in? :) I installed Apache2 so I could use
> PhpWiki, thus I'm new to Apache as well. I do have it set up and
> successfully serving regular HTML pages (via router port forwarding,
> if that matters to PhpWiki). Do I just drop the whole phpwiki-1.3.10
> directory into /var/www and cross my fingers? 

why not? if you like the phpwiki-user-visible 1.3.10 prefix.
I personally prefer a /wiki prefix, and I prefer not to see a index.php 
(/wiki/index.php/pagename) in the user-visible url. That's why I use the 
wiki file for which I set the php handler.

See the .htaccess and wiki files.

> If Apache already has PHP support, do I have to do anything special to turn 
 > it on so that it executes PHP pages?

If you serve just index.php not. If another file (such as wiki) you have to.

-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/