Purpose: A cookbook approach to creating a Wiki of your own.

'''WARNING!'''  Since this software environment is pre-alpha, not a lot of details are available yet.  I am building this place holder for us to grow details.


    * [About this site] provides some background on the hardware and software being used for [The Tcl'ers Wiki].

    * To use a Wiki as a stand-alone, non-WWW connected application, see [WiKit in local mode]

    * To use a Wiki as a CGI based, WWW connected application (either public or private), see [WiKit under CGI].

    * Data and scripts are all stored within the ''wikit.tkd'' file.  If you need to move to a new server, moving 2 files is all you need to do ("wikit.tkd", and the approprate "tclkit" runtime).

    * Administering a Wiki
        1. To look at the history of changes made to a file, ???
        2. To add new capabilities, ???

    * ''JC: there are command line options to extract pages and scripts, and to update scripts inside the wikit.tkd "scripted document", but there is no documentation for this yet...''
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LV: I could really use some help here guys!

JC: ''It's early, early, early, but I'll try to help.''

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dlb: has anyone been successful in running the new (07-Nov-2000)VFS          wikit via CGI ?  -- if not, are there still older versions      available ?  I've been having a hell of a time getting wikit      running as a cgi process , is there someone I can direct questions      to ??

LV: Did you check the link above about Wikits and CGI?  Did you put
up a note on the Gripes about Wikit, or Wikit Problems, pages?

VPT: 17th Feb '02 - the current wikit.tkd runs as a cgi process (at least on Linux). I put the tclkit in /usr/bin since that was in the PATH in apache's environment (as displayed by the printenv cgi-bin script). I then put the wikit.tkd in the cgi-bin directory and set the permissions to rwx for the user apache runs as (I'm a lttle uncomfortable with having the write permission set but at least it only has the permissions of the apache user). Editing a page with Mozilla 0.9.8 fails with,

[error] (26)Text file busy: exec of /var/www/cgi-bin/wikit.tkd failed

whilst editing with Netscape Communicator works. This failure mode has been reported before see [Wikit under CGI].

Actually the edit succeeds although the browser reports an error. In  any case it only fails if you are using Mozilla local to the server.

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Documentation about the [Wikit Command Line] is now available.

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[Category Wikit]