3 PhpWiki 1.5.3 requires a web server with at least PHP version 5.3.
5 All users of PHP are strongly encouraged to upgrade to
6 PHP 5.3.29 or to PHP 5.4 or 5.5.
8 Visit <http://www.php.net> and <http://php.net/downloads.php>
9 for downloads and information.
11 You need the Perl regular expressions package compiled in; this is the
12 default for PHP, so you probably have it. If you don't you'll see an
13 error like "function preg_replace() not defined."
15 PHP must also be compiled with support for the type of database you
16 want to use, i.e. --with-gdbm, --with-db2, --with-db3, --with-msql,
17 --with-pgsql. Consult the PHP installation manual for specific
18 installation and configure options.
19 <http://www.php.net/manual/en/installation.php>
21 Since version 1.3.0 PhpWiki uses the 'DB.php' from PEAR, a database
22 abstraction layer which is part of PHP. PhpWiki version 1.3.3 and later
23 includes the necessary PEAR libraries and will use it if your system
24 PEAR library can not be found. For more information about PEAR
25 see <http://pear.php.net/>.
26 PhpWiki version 1.3.7 and later includes the ADODB libraries and will
27 use it for DATABASE_TYPE=ADODB. ADODB has more features, can use yet
28 unsupported backends out of the box, and this is where SQL development
29 happens. ADODB improvements are then backported to the stable PEAR
30 backend (which often suffers from bad upstream PEAR libraries) and to
34 QUICK START INSTRUCTIONS
36 Copy 'config/config-dist.ini' to 'config/config.ini' and edit the
37 settings in 'config/config.ini' to your liking.
39 By default PhpWiki is configured to use a dba database. If there
40 is no dba on your system, you will see an error like this the first
41 time you try to use PhpWiki:
43 "Fatal error: Call to undefined function: dba_open() in
44 phpwiki/lib/DbaDatabase.php on line 32"
46 To correct this you will have to check the available dba handlers
47 (default: db3 for Windows, otherwise gdbm), install the dba extension
48 or preferably an sql-compatible database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
49 and make the necessary configuration changes to 'lib/config/config.ini'.
54 Below are the instructions for the "out of the box" installation,
55 which uses DB files. If you are using a relational database like
56 MySQL, see the INSTALL file for your database in the 'doc/' directory
57 under the root of your PhpWiki installation.
62 Unzip this file into the directory where you want it to live. That's it.
64 bash$ unzip phpwiki-1.5.3.zip
66 In the config subdirectory copy 'config-dist.ini' to 'config.ini' and
67 edit the settings in 'config.ini' to your liking.
72 The first time you run this Wiki it will load a set of basic pages
73 from the 'pgsrc/' directory. These should be enough to get your Wiki
76 PhpWiki will create some DBA files in '/tmp'. They contain the pages
77 of the live site, archived pages, and some additional information.
79 If you don't want the DBA files to live in '/tmp' you must make sure
80 the web server can read/write to your chosen location. It's probably
81 a bad idea to leave it in '/tmp', so change it in 'config/config.ini'.
83 WARNING: On many systems, files in '/tmp' are subject to periodic
84 removal. We very strongly advise you to move the files to
87 For example, create a subdirectory called 'pages' in the 'phpwiki'
88 directory which was made when you untarred PhpWiki. Move the DBA files
89 there. The files should already have proper rights and owners, as they
90 were created by the web server. If not, change the permissions
91 accordingly so your web server can read / write the DBA files. Note
92 that you must be root to move files created by the web server.
94 Next you must ensure that the web server can access the 'pages'
95 directory and can create new files in it. For example, if your web
96 server runs as user 'nobody', give the web server access like this:
98 bash$ chown nobody:youraccount pages
101 This is necessary so that the server can also create / set the
102 database lock file (PHP has a built in locking mechanism for DBA file
103 access). Or if you're really lazy and don't worry much about
106 bash$ chmod 777 pages
108 Note: This is insecure. The proper way is to let the directory be
109 owned by the web servers GUID and give it read and write access.
112 2. ALLOWING EMBEDDED HTML
114 PhpWiki ships with this feature disabled by default. According to
115 CERT, malicious users can embed HTML in your pages that allow pure
118 <http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-02.html>
120 Set the ENABLE_RAW_HTML to true in 'config/config.ini' to allow
121 embedded HTML, but you should NEVER do this if your Wiki is publicly
126 Installing PHP is beyond the scope of this document :-) You should
127 visit <http://www.php.net/> if you don't have PHP. Note that you
128 should have the web server configured to allow index.php as the root
129 document of a directory.
134 <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=6121&atid=306121>
139 <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=6121&atid=106121>
143 For support from the PhpWiki team and user community post to:
144 <phpwiki-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
146 You can join this list at:
147 <http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpwiki-talk>