I have continued the open source fight on my own site: http://my-wd-local.wikidot.com/

My guides are pretty current, but I have not even tried to use the VMWare image since giving it a shot and failing back when it was first released. Since v2 has been on hold for so long, my only focus has been on using v1. I have had great success running v1 on stand-alone hardware and in VirtualBox VMs.

BTW, there is no need for running update-2008-08-19.php if you do fresh installs from the SVN repository.

-Ed

Anyway, I guess now I can try to modife the source then..

I have an existing site schoolsplay.wikidot.com, that I want to update.
In the train I have the most time, but no internet connection.
Can I 'export' my site to my harddisk and use it in the VMWare image on Windows XP?
And how would I do this?

I'm trying the backup route: manage site - backup and load that into the image.
But it says at the backup page: "The backup option at the moment has a few limitations: you can not restore from it automatically, it does not include all page revisions, only current (latest), it does not include forum discussion or page comments."
That's not a dealbreaker, but it would be nicest if everything is in it, and can be easily imported in the VMWare image.

Thanks,

Chris

— hartnell

It's been over two weeks since your reply and nothing has changed. (And a month since I originally provided the detail in bug reports.)

I would sign your contribution license and commit the fixes to wikidot v1 myself if I had any assurance that the changes would flow through to the wikidot.com website in a timely fashion. However, there's nothing published showing how the two connect with planned releases, etc.

Can someone with subversion access update the open source version as well?

michal

For the record here are the bug reports:
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-22246/module-newpage-doesn-t-honour-template-selection
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-46381/many-blank-templates-appear-in-template-list

So, I'm wondering if there is a better way to get bugs fixed. If source code changes are made on the open source Wikidot v1 repository, do the changes flow through to wikidot.com blogs? If not, can the relevant patches be sent through to another destination, e.g. email address? If so, what is the delay between changes to the repository here and the live wikidot.com wikis?

Thanks.

Are there any other tables that need records added or updated?

On a related note (for purely selfish reasons!), are there any plans in the works to allow wikidot.com users to create an export of their wiki sites that could be imported into an open source install? I realize that extra steps would be involved with file attachments, etc., but it would be a nice feature to make a full backup/restore of a site easier.

-Ed

Thank you for the quick reply and quick fix! I applied the new php file and "recompiled" the pages and everything is working well now. Hopefully, that will be the last hurdle.

Thanks again for all of your work on this project.

-Ed

Now Tidy is back and buttons and collapsible blocks should work. Already commited to svn.

thanks,
Michal

PS. I think you will have to "recompile" the affected pages, i.e. edit them (a bit) and save the top-nav.

After porting just a couple of pages, I noticed some strange behavior with the [[button...]] and [[collapsible...]] functions. Rather than bore you with the details, I have set up a sandbox site so you can see firsthand what's happening.

Ed's Sandbox

I can't promise that this server will be up 24/7, or how long it will be available, but I would really appreciate it if some members of the development team would take just a minute to look. I have permissions pretty wide open, so no need to create an account or become a member to play in this sandbox.

This is all I have found so far with my stand-alone server. I will continue to update my sandbox page if I find other issues.

Thanks,
-Ed

Sorry for being such a pest! I'm under some pressure at work to get a Wikidot install running on our internal network and have been testing like crazy at home to make sure it will work as well as your hosted site. I must be over 20 test installs now since you released Wikidot to the open source community.

-Ed

Unless I made a mistake in my install script, it appears you made a change in the last day or two to the distributed apache.vhost.wikidot.conf file that causes the Apache server to fail upon startup.

Some of the new %{WIKIDOT:xxx} variables don't appear to be getting set properly somewhere. When I reverted back to the older version of the config file, things started working again.

Are there new steps that need to be added to the Debian/Ubuntu install guides?

Apologies if I made the mistake - my install scripts were working well 2 days ago and I only made minor changes that should not have caused this, but maybe I missed something.

Thanks,
Ed