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[Phpwiki-talk] new to phpwiki, problems with basic installation under windows

[Daniel R. <re...@ma...>]

hi there,

i'm new to wiki at all and especially to phpwiki, which i want to install
under windows (xp server).

right now i did install the omnicron httpd server and also php4.
AFAIC i've done these steps right.

but i've not installed any database, so that start phpwiki brings up the
following error message(s):



C:\Programme\Omnihttpd\HTDOCS\phpwiki-1.3.2\lib\DbaDatabase.php:32:
Fatal[256]: no such handler: gdbm

WikiFatalError
C:\Programme\Omnihttpd\HTDOCS\phpwiki-1.3.2\lib\DbaDatabase.php:32:
Fatal[256]: no such handler: gdbm
ErrorManager: error while handling error:
C:\Programme\Omnihttpd\HTDOCS\phpwiki-1.3.2\lib\Request.php:391: Notice[8]:
Undefined variable: negoffset
ErrorManager: error while handling error:
C:\Programme\Omnihttpd\HTDOCS\phpwiki-1.3.2\lib\Request.php:424: Warning[2]:
fopen("/tmp/wiki_access_log", "a") - No such file or directory</



could someone please explain me what i have to do to install and run phpWiki
1.3.2 ?

thank you in advance,
	daniel / sirleto

re...@ma...

Re: [Phpwiki-talk] new to phpwiki, problems with basic installation under windows

[Lawrence A. <la...@us...>]

Daniel,

At 09:56 19/02/2002, you wrote:
>hi there,
>
>i'm new to wiki at all and especially to phpwiki, which i want to install
>under windows (xp server).
>
>right now i did install the omnicron httpd server and also php4.
>AFAIC i've done these steps right.


Why are you using omnicron?  You can get a combined php/apache/mysql 
installation such as foxserv  ( http://foxserv.linuxmax.net/portal.php ) 
which will set everything up for you.



>but i've not installed any database, so that start phpwiki brings up the
>following error message(s):
>


If you have not installed a database, phpWiki will not work.  It requires 
either a dbm database, or an SQL database such as MySQL or 
PostgreSQL.  "Out of the box", the wiki uses dbm which is very common on 
*nix systems.  I have no idea if it is available for Windows, but I 
recommend installing an SQL database such as MySQL.  You can then edit 
index.php to tell phpWiki to use the SQL database type.  As I mentioned 
above, foxserv comes with mySQL.  You can also get the binaries from the 
mySQL website.



Lawrence Akka