REQUIREMENTS
PhpWiki requires PHP version 4.0.? or greater.
Since version 1.3.0 PhpWiki uses the 'DB.php' from PEAR, a database
absraction layer which is part of PHP. PEAR must be installed and
enabled too. If PHP cannot find it's 'DB.php', the first time you try
to use PhpWiki you will see an error like this:
"lib/FileFinder.php:82: Fatal[256]: DB.php: file not found"
To fix this, locate the file 'DB.php' on your system, then uncomment
and modify the "ini_set" line in part zero of 'index.php':
ini_set('include_path', '.:/my/location/of/pear/directory');
For more information about PEAR see .
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."
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
Look at 'index.php' and edit the settings there 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 DBM files in '/tmp'. They contain the pages
of the live site, archived pages, and some additional information.
If you don't want the DBM 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 'index.php'.
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 DBM 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 DBM 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 DBM 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
(This is not working in the 1.3 branch as of this writing.)
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:
You can uncomment the "elseif" in 'lib/transform.php' to allow
embedded HTML; but you should NEVER do this if your Wiki is publically
accessible.
3. ETC
Installing PHP is beyond the scope of this document :-) You should
visit 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:
5. BUGS
Post bugs to:
6. SUPPORT
For support from the PhpWiki team and user community post to:
You can join this list at:
FIN
$Id: INSTALL,v 1.14 2002-01-03 07:59:36 carstenklapp Exp $