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REQUIREMENTS
PhpWiki requires a web server with at least PHP version 4.0.6.
PhpWiki was tested 4.0.4pl1 and 4.0.5 also, but several bugs in these
releases make them unstable for production sites.
Due to a security issue found in all versions of PHP (including 3.x
and 4.x), all users of PHP are strongly encouraged to either upgrade
to at least PHP 4.2.2, or install a patch available for PHP 3.0.18,
4.0.6 and 4.1.0/4.1.1. Visit <http://www.php.net> for downloads and
information.
Larger phpwiki installations (big pages or > 500 pages)
with PHP <= 4.3.9 suffer from a PCRE memory problem and might not
work with the 8MB default PHP memory limit.
You need the Perl regular expressions package compiled in; this is the
default for PHP, so you probably have it. If you don't you'll see an
error like "function preg_replace() not defined."
PHP must also be compiled with support for the type of database you
want to use, i.e. --with-gdbm, --with-db2, --with-db3, --with-msql,
--with-pgsql. (With PHP4 MySQL support is always enabled. With PHP5
sqlite instead). Consult the PHP installation manual for specific
installation and configure options.
<http://www.php.net/manual/en/installation.php>
Since version 1.3.0 PhpWiki uses the 'DB.php' from PEAR, a database
abstraction layer which is part of PHP. PhpWiki version 1.3.3 and later
includes the necessary PEAR libraries and will use it if your system
PEAR library can not be found. For more information about PEAR
see <http://pear.php.net/>.
PhpWiki version 1.3.7 and later includes the ADODB libraries and will
use it for DATABASE_TYPE=ADODB. ADODB has more features, can use yet
unsupported backends out of the box, and this is where SQL development
happens. ADODB improvements are then backported to the stable PEAR
backend (which often suffers from bad upstream PEAR libraries) and to
PDO for php5.
QUICK START INSTRUCTIONS
Copy 'config/config-dist.ini' to 'config/config.ini' and edit the
settings in 'config/config.ini' to your liking.
By default PhpWiki is configured to use a dba database. If there
is no dba on your system, you will see an error like this the first
time you try to use PhpWiki:
"Fatal error: Call to undefined function: dba_open() in
phpwiki/lib/DbaDatabase.php on line 32"
To correct this you will have to check the available dba handlers
(default: db3 for Windows, otherwise gdbm), install the dba extension
or preferably an sql-compatible database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
and make the necessary configuration changes to 'lib/config/config.ini'.
INSTRUCTIONS
Below are the instructions for the "out of the box" installation,
which uses DB files. If you are using a relational database like
MySQL, see the INSTALL file for your database in the 'doc/' directory
under the root of your PhpWiki installation.
0. INSTALLATION
Untar / gzip this file into the directory where you want it to
live. That's it.
bash$ gzip -d phpwiki-X.XX.tar.gz
bash$ tar -xvf phpwiki-X.XX.tar
In the config subdirectory copy 'config-dist.ini' to 'config.ini' and
edit the settings in 'config.ini' to your liking.
1. CONFIGURATION
The first time you run this Wiki it will load a set of basic pages
from the 'pgsrc/' directory. These should be enough to get your Wiki
started.
PhpWiki will create some DBA files in '/tmp'. They contain the pages
of the live site, archived pages, and some additional information.
If you don't want the DBA files to live in '/tmp' you must make sure
the web server can read/write to your chosen location. It's probably
a bad idea to leave it in '/tmp', so change it in 'config/config.ini'.
WARNING: On many systems, files in '/tmp' are subject to periodic
removal. We very strongly advise you to move the files to
another directory.
For example, create a subdirectory called 'pages' in the 'phpwiki'
directory which was made when you untarred PhpWiki. Move the DBA files
there. The files should already have proper rights and owners, as they
were created by the web server. If not, change the permissions
accordingly so your web server can read / write the DBA files. Note
that you must be root to move files created by the web server.
Next you must ensure that the web server can access the 'pages'
directory and can create new files in it. For example, if your web
server runs as user 'nobody', give the web server access like this:
bash$ chown nobody:youraccount pages
bash$ chmod 755 pages
This is necessary so that the server can also create / set the
database lock file (PHP has a built in locking mechanism for DBA file
access). Or if you're really lazy and don't worry much about
security:
bash$ chmod 777 pages
Note: This is insecure. The proper way is to let the directory be
owned by the web servers GUID and give it read and write access.
2. ALLOWING EMBEDDED HTML
PhpWiki ships with this feature disabled by default. According to
CERT, malicious users can embed HTML in your pages that allow pure
evil to happen:
<http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html>
Set the ENABLE_RAW_HTML to true in ' config/config.ini' to allow
embedded HTML, but you should NEVER do this if your Wiki is publicly
accessible!
3. ETC
Installing PHP is beyond the scope of this document :-) You should
visit <http://www.php.net/> if you don't have PHP. Note that you
should have the web server configured to allow index.php as the root
document of a directory.
4. PATCHES
Post patches to:
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=6121&atid=306121>
5. BUGS
Post bugs to:
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=6121&atid=106121>
6. SUPPORT
For support from the PhpWiki team and user community post to:
<phpwiki-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
You can join this list at:
<http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpwiki-talk>
FIN
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