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PodWiki Installation Instructions
Requirements
How to install
Installation via autoconf:
Manual Installation:
How to configure
Changing the default root password
Update
Apache webserver: http://www.apache.org
Perl5: http://www.perl.org
RCS revision control system: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS
Optional ImageMagick: http://www.imagemagick.org
All required perl modules are included in the distribution and will be installed automatically, so you dont have to worry about them.
There are two ways to install PodWiki. The preferred way is to use the supplied configure script which generates a Makefile for the installation. It is also possible to install the files manually.
Enter the following command to create the Makefile:
./configure
You can change some variables before installing, issue ./configure --help to find out what can be tweaked. Usually you would want to change the installation destination (--prefix) and the user/group podwiki will run as (--with-user and --with-group).
PodWiki must be installed somewhere into your apache's document root. Make sure you have write permissions on the target directory.
Now execute the command:
make install
This should install all the files into a new directory and set some permissions. Important: The data/ and images/ directories must be writable by the apache. The Makefile makes those directories writable for the user/group you specified in the Makefile. This is neccessary because PodWiki runs under the Userid of your apache and must be able to write pages.
Basic installation is now complete.
Copy the whole directory to your webservers document root, probably into a newly created directory. Make sure, the apache user is able to read the files and to enter the directories. Apply write permissions to data/ and images/ to the apache user.
Move podwiki.pl.in to podwiki.pl and edit the shebang line (replace @PERL@ with the current perl interpreter). Move podwiki.conf.in to podwiki.conf (replace @PASSWD@ with a default passwd).
Basic installation is now complete.
During the installation process a .htaccess file has been installed to the podwiki root directory. You may edit this file to enable some features:
To run PodWiki under mod_perl, uncomment the
mod_perl block (everything within the
To enable URi rewriting, uncomment the block
http://podwiki.org/podwiki.pl?page=UserHelp
with reqriting it looks like:
http://podwiki.org/UserHelp
You may change the regular exprssion to match it your installation. E.g. if you installed PodWiki to /var/www/htdocs/intranet/podwiki while /var/www/htdocs/ is you document root, then the expression must be changed to:
RewriteRule ^/intranet/podwiki/([A-Z][a-zA-Z\-\_\.]+)/?$ /podwiki.pl?page=$1 [PT]
Now open the file podwiki.conf with an editor. You can change some vars. By default nothing have to be changed beside the 'direct' variable which must be turned on (set to '1') if you previously enabled rewriting.
PodWiki includes an authentication system. By default a user 'root' will be created who is able to create more users.
When PodWiki starts the first time, it presents you a "Change Password" dialog which makes it possible to set a new password for the root user of your PodWiki (the root user is the default administrator account). This dialog requires the default password which is defined in the config file in the variable "default_admin_passwd" and is only required the first time you start PodWiki.
If you forgot the root password, use the script support/pwreset.pl in the distribution source directory. It asks you for the location of the PodWiki data/ directory and the new root password. It will not ask for the old password.
If you are updating to a newer version of PodWiki, follow the normal installation procedure and install it into the same location as the previous version. Your data/ and images/ directories will not be overwritten. Only the program and library files will be installed.
If you want to include the latest version of the documentation of PodWiki you have to use the "Doc-Update" function on the "Site Administration" within PodWiki. Just click on the link and PodWiki will import the new versions of the doc files into the RCS repository. If you have changed one or more of those pages you can de-select them. Note: If you made some changes to the PodWiki documentation which maybe interesting for other PodWiki users too, please send me the changed files so that I can incorporate them into the distribution.
