— 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

It is configured to be "plug-and-play", I believe it will be a great help to all Wikidot developers and possibly those who just want to try the software.

Will this system you've developed run with the free VMWare player (http://www.vmware.com/products/player/) or will it require us to buy another VMWare product to use it?

Thanks,
Ed

I suppose things to fix would include:

• Fix directory handling so that it could work with windows-style paths (C:\www\wikidot\… instead of /var/www/wikidot…) - currently for sure include dirs is broken and in many places DIRECTORY_SPEARATOR constant should be used. In Wikidot2 we are using a bit different approach to handling directories and I hope it will work.
• exec() : in a few places we are calling external processes just by running the exec() function. I am not sure how this behaves in Windows. exec() is mostly called when converting images (tools from ImageMagick) and calling LaTeX (for producing equations)
• dependencies — this should be easier I hope. PECL is also available on Windows.

There is also a workeround for the whole process: use a virtual machine inside Windows. We have just created a universal VMWare-based system that one can use to develop both Wikidot v1 and Wikidot v2! I just need to upload it somewhere. It is based on Ununtu Joes Alpha and works really great. More info will come later today or early next week.

Michal

I'd also be very interested in finding a way to run Wikidot in a WAMP environment. As you may have read on Wikidot.org, I've been struggling trying to get things working on a Ubuntu server and am not quite there yet.

I'm curious which pieces (libraries?) you've identified that need to be recompiled for use on a Windows Apache server? I've been spending all of my time with my Ubuntu server and haven't tried a WAMP install. Although I'm much more comfortable on a Windows system, I figured it would be better to get it running in the environment it was originally designed before trying to get it to run in Windows!

Good luck with your efforts and keep us posted.
Thanks,
-Ed

Jerry Schneider

After browsing the source, I've got a pretty good understanding of Wikidot V1 operation, so I'll try to set it up under WinXP SP2 (and maybe Vista after SP1 is available). I think a lot of the effort is just learning where and when to download precompiled binary files and when to compile from source. The configuration of each component is also likely to be different under XP, so I'm keeping notes on what works and what doesn't while I juggle the components to get them working on Wikidot V1. It looks like V2 requires more config and extensions, so I'm concentrating on V1 first.

If anyone else is working on this, we should share notes so we don't both go down each fruitless path of implementation and testing.

I have a regular day job, so progress will be as I find time in the evenings and on weekends. If someone else has more time to devote, I would be glad to take on small tasks as needed.

I'm in Boulder, CO US about -7 hours UTC.

Best
Jerry Schneider