'''June 2002''' - time to update this info a bit...
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This site is hosted by an ISP called "Rackspace" [http://www.rackspace.com].  Its domain name has been set up as ''mini.net''.  It also has a "persistent url": http://purl.org/tcl/wiki/ and a rad cool redirect: http://wiki.tcl.tk/ (yes, there's a Tokelai).

'''Hardware'''

The machine is a P5/800 running Unix, and is well-connected to the internet (a couple of TS3's etc).

'''Operating system'''

The site is a virtual host running under RedHat 7.2, the webserver is Apache 1.3.22.

'''Software'''

These pages use [WiKit] through CGI (it can also be used in a local Tk mode).  Each raw page accesses launch a new process, though the machine seems to cope amazingly well. But nowadays, most accesses don't even get this far because there is a static page cache for all pages '''if''' they are named "N.html".  In other words, ''http://mini.net/tcl/24.html'' hits the cache and is the preferred URL, while ''http://mini.net/24'' does not and forces a CGI launch (same for wiki.tcl.tk and PURLs).

WiKit is powered by the June Tcl/Tk 8.4a5 based version of [TclKit], with the built-in [MetaKit] verion 2.4.7 database taking care of storage and searching.

'''WiKit implementation'''

WiKit is 5,000 lines of Tcl (half of it is Don Libes' CGI 1.6 script package).  In this most recent release of wikit, all scripts are stored as a single [scripted document] file, while all pages are stored as a second MetaKit datafile (it's not using VFS to get better search performance from MetaKit).

WiKit is portable, it's also being used on Windows and Solaris.

'''Obtaining the WiKit software'''

There are downloads of Wikit at http://www.equi4.com/wikit/ and several builds of TclKit at http://www.equi4.com/tclkit/.  There are also single-file ready-to-run executable versions for several platforms, see [http://mini.net/sdarchive/].

You can obtain an on-the-fly snapshot of this Tcl'ers Wiki from http://mini.net/cgi-bin/wikit.gz - get the wikit.bin package and TclKit, and you'll have a pretty effective way of accessing and searching all the knowledge in this wiki off-line.

-[jcw]
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[Category Tcler's Wiki]
[Category Wikit]