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				<title>Virtual Startup: Virtual Startup</title>
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				<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>tsangk</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>47197</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>I have configured Wikidot 1 on the virtual machine fine and i am working on configureing Wikidot 2. I know it is not ready for the end-user but i just wanted to look. I downloaded the latest repo from your svn server and shared the folder. I navigated to <a href="http://wikidot2.dev/">http://wikidot2.dev/</a> and there was an error:</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>Fatal error:</strong> Uncaught exception 'Wikidot_Exception_Php_Warning' with message 'pg_connect() [&lt;a href='function.pg-connect'&gt;function.pg-connect&lt;/a&gt;]: Unable to connect to PostgreSQL server: could not connect to server: Connection refused Is the server running on host &amp;quot;192.168.17.129&amp;quot; and accepting TCP/IP connections on port 5433?' in /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/misc/setup.php:92 Stack trace: #0 [internal function]: wikidot_error_handler(2, 'pg_connect() [&lt;…', '/wikidot/www/wi…', 74, Array) #1 /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/class/Wikidot/Db/Connection/Pg.php(74): pg_connect('host='192.168.1…') #2 /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/class/Wikidot/Db.php(60): Wikidot_Db_Connection_Pg-&gt;__construct(Array) #3 /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/class/Wikidot/Db.php(83): Wikidot_Db::factory('pg', Array) #4 /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/class/Wikidot/Db.php(103): Wikidot_Db::init() #5 /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/class/Wikidot.php(140): Wikidot_Db::connection(NULL) #6 /wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/class/Wikidot/Core/Api.php(139): Wikidot::database() # in <strong>/wikidot/www/wikidot2/php/misc/setup.php</strong> on line <strong>92</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>That was alright. It says PHP errors were fine. Then I continued to the next step of <tt>ant generate-site</tt>.</p> <p>A load of errors came up.</p> <p>Please help me!!</p> <p>-tsangk</p> 
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				<guid>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563#post-167482</guid>
				<title>Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine: Re: Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine</title>
				<link>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563/basic-questions-about-the-wikidot-dev2-virtual-machine#post-167482</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>marenz</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>131219</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>just do sudo shutdown -h now</p> <p>for the empty folders.. i can confirm this problem, but nothing more :/<br /> this should not happen in an ready image.. though for me it might is caused by virtualbox.. but then again.. he is using vmware and has the same problem</p> <p>—Ano</p> 
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				<guid>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-61027#post-167480</guid>
				<title>VirtualBox: VirtualBox</title>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>marenz</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>131219</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Just opend the image with VirtualBox. Works without problems, the apache is also available for my native host after enabling port forwarding as described in the Vbox help. Note that ping does not work and that is no error.</p> <p>though, accessing the / site gave me just</p> <p>Not Found</p> <p>The requested URL / was not found on this server.<br /> Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu4 with Suhosin-Patch Server at localhost Port 8080</p> <p>(port 8080 is forwarded to 80)</p> <p>i thought this is a ready to run image? :/</p> <p>after inspecting the logs it seems that it accesses the file /wikidot/www/wikidot1/web and that the file does not exist</p> <p>oh and btw, why is there alsa installed?!<br /> i could setup a virtual debian server for vbox with all configs done</p> <p>edit: ok i should read more : 5. Before you launch it look at the settings and configure the Shared Folders — "wikidot1" or "wikidot2" must point to the locations where you have a working copy of Wikidot.</p> <p>so nm that, going to try that now</p> <p>—Ano</p> 
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				<guid>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563#post-157044</guid>
				<title>Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine: Re: Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine</title>
				<link>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563/basic-questions-about-the-wikidot-dev2-virtual-machine#post-157044</link>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 17:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>David Drascic</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>113763</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>On the page entitled <a href="http://www.wikidot.org/doc:debian-quickstart">Debian QuickStart</a> (which to a novice does not sound like it should be very useful when trying to run a virtual Ubuntu machine), I found the following:</p> <div style="padding: 5px 40px; background: #ff9"> <p>Note: on Ubuntu you can do</p> <div class="code"> <pre> <code>sudo su -</code> </pre></div> <br /> to permanently obtain root shell.</div> <p>Do you suppose this is what I need to use with the virtual machine? I would have tried it already but I'm trying to download the VM again (6th try!) hoping to get a clean copy.</p> 
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				<title>Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine: Re: Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine</title>
				<link>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563/basic-questions-about-the-wikidot-dev2-virtual-machine#post-156793</link>
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				<pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 00:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>tsangk</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>47197</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>If you are using Windows, then you may try "[[www.rarlab.com/download.htm WinRAR]]"</p> <p>See if that helps….</p> <p>-gmhelper</p> <p>P.S. I am also interested on how to work the Virtual Version coz I have installed it on my PC.</p> 
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				<guid>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563#post-156760</guid>
				<title>Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine: Basic questions about the Wikidot Dev2 Virtual Machine</title>
				<link>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-57563/basic-questions-about-the-wikidot-dev2-virtual-machine#post-156760</link>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 23:06:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>David Drascic</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>113763</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>I'm hoping to have a chance to try out the virtual machine package of the wikidot server, but I'm not having any luck.</p> <p>I downloaded the VM as required, and got what I think is a clean copy, tho it took several tries</p> <ul> <li>wikidot-dev2-vm-20080220.tar.gz (603,068&nbsp;KB, or 617,540,980 bytes)</li> </ul> <p>I tried using PowerArchiver and TUGZip, but neither was able to decompress everything for some reason. Neither generated errors, tho. By merging the two uncompressed versions, I was able to get a VM that booted up, but apache failed during startup, and the /wikidot/…/wikidot1 and wikidot2 directories were empty.</p> <p>When I tried to shut down the VM, I kept getting an error: "Must be root", but I do not know what the root password is. It isn't "wdadmin", as it is for the wdadmin account. I had to force a "power-failure" shutdown in WMWare Player just to turn the VM off.</p> <p>Any help you can provide would be appreciated.</p> <p>Thanks,</p> <p>David.</p> 
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				<guid>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-52290#post-141143</guid>
				<title>Virtual Machine: Virtual Machine</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>Barryke</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>103616</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>First off; great! I shall test it as a intranet startpage for some students here.<br /> How come the wikidot service is free? I wonder who pays the bills.. or does wikidot sell Pro-wiki's for corporations?</p> <p>Perhaps the <a href="http://dev.wikidot.org/virtual-machine">virtual-machine</a> page could mention which VM version this was exported from;<br /> I was not able to open it in VM-Player 1.0.4 or 1.0.5.</p> <p>I'd rather not use the WM-Player 2.0 Beta because it might disturb other VM's on this hardware!</p> 
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				<title>Virtual Wikidot PHP changes: Re: Virtual Wikidot PHP changes</title>
				<link>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-47443/virtual-wikidot-php-changes#post-133266</link>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>michal frackowiak</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>1</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>With PHP it is simply enough to have some of the libraries (for V1 only pgsql and tidy) NOT as shared libraries, because this can introduce segmentation faults to your Apache instance. Quite odd. Right now we are moving to rpm-based server distros, but recompiling src deb works fine - you just need to change the <tt>rules</tt> file, locate the "configure" options and make the pgsql and tidy compile as <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span> shared libs.</p> <p>Everything else is described in the "debian quickstart".</p> <p>m.</p> 
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				<guid>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-47443#post-126637</guid>
				<title>Virtual Wikidot PHP changes: Virtual Wikidot PHP changes</title>
				<link>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-47443/virtual-wikidot-php-changes#post-126637</link>
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				<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>atglabs</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>7706</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>In the notes discussing Virtual Machine operation, one of the items listed was "PHP 5.2.4 recompiled to include required extensions and to solve some irritating bugs".</p> <p>If I were to move V1 Wikidot to another hosting server that has PHP 5.2.x, are the bugs you fixed listed in one of the changelog? Were there workarounds in the code base for some or all of the PHP bugs?</p> <p>I know V2 is taking lots of cycles and it may be that the bugs you refer to only show up in V2 Wikidot; only PHP bugs related to V1 are of current interest to me. Any pointers would be appreciated.</p> 
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				<guid>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-43643#post-115207</guid>
				<title>Staging and Production Servers: Re: Staging and Production Servers</title>
				<link>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-43643/staging-and-production-servers#post-115207</link>
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				<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>michal frackowiak</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>1</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Hi,</p> <p>yes, we want to implement such functionality in WD2 and this could be done in at least 2 ways (btw: now it is a good time to discuss which is better):</p> <p>1. Draft/unpublished mode</p> <p>One could edit pages and save without publishing. This would mean that a page (or whole wiki) could have 2 versions: current and published. This would add extra structures to the site and myself I am not a big fan of this solution because I find it lacking flexibility.</p> <p>2. Cloning &amp; merging back</p> <p>To keep a page/category/wiki in a consistent state one does not edit live pages, but instead "clones" a page/category/wiki and makes changes to the working copy. When changes are done (and reviewed), they can be merged back to the original source. Since the <em>clone</em> operation links the original and cloned content, merging back should be easy and straightforward.</p> <p>The solution 2 is inspired by how distributed version control systems work (e.g. <a href="http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/">Mercurial</a> or <a href="http://bazaar-vcs.org/">Baazar</a>). If we can implement a nice merge tool, several people could easily work on the same document (different copies) and push the changes back to the original container.</p> <p>IMHO it gives nice flexibility and could be adapted in various workflows. The clone-edit-review-publish would nicely work with the permission system.</p> <p>We are not really planning this for the "alpha release" of WD2 (in the next few months) but this is a must eventually. Michal Bartoszewski (<span class="printuser avatarhover"><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/e1n" ><img class="small" src="http://www.wikidot.com/common--images/avatars/19/19928/a16.png" alt="e1n" /></a><a href="http://www.wikidot.com/user:info/e1n" >e1n</a></span>) is working on adapting a 3-way XML merge tool (I think <a href="http://tdm.berlios.de/3dm/doc/index.html">this one</a>) to this scenario but any help from XML experts would be highly appreciated.</p> <p>best,<br /> Michal</p> 
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				<title>Staging and Production Servers: Staging and Production Servers</title>
				<link>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-43643/staging-and-production-servers#post-114450</link>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>Jerry Schneider</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>59278</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Currently on Wikidot1, I have to edit the "live" pages, and if there are lots of interacting changes, sometimes it leaves the site in an inconsistent state for visitors. I'm used to having a staging server that holds the pre-production version, and when things on the staging server are working well, I throw the switch (well, actually someone pauses the server, copies the file paths from the staging server to the production server, and restarts the production server.)</p> <p>Any thoughts on doing a similar operation on Wikidot, either 1 or 2? One site I know of uses port 8080 for staging and 80 for production, while another has two URLs, one for each type.</p> <p>If there were a quick "restore from zip" mode, I could zip the staging WD server and restore the zip to the main WD server, after first clearing it (deleting it?). Something that doesn't involve requests to the WD admin so I can roll forward/roll back as needed.</p> <p>Thoughts, suggestions. WD2 solution already in the works?</p> <p>TIA</p> 
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				<title>Introductions: Re: Introductions</title>
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				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>michal frackowiak</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>1</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>Great! Welcome onboard!!!</p> 
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				<guid>http://dev.wikidot.org/forum/t-41031#post-106265</guid>
				<title>Introductions: Introductions</title>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
				<wikidot:authorName>Ed Johnson</wikidot:authorName>				<wikidot:authorUserId>38854</wikidot:authorUserId>				<content:encoded>
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						 <p>I thought having a place to make some formal introductions would make some sense.</p> <p>I'm interested in helping in any way I can. I have some skill in web development and have dabbled in PHP and some MySQL, but databases are definitely not my strong area. I'm a skilled Windows user and a total beginner with all things Linux. I love being on the "cutting edge" and can help by beta testing new features. I have extra equipment at home that I can load up as a test environment and can help with documentation.</p> <p>By day, I'm an IT Manager for a chain of restaurants in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota area and my primary role is development and training of applications specific to our point of sale (cash register) system. We are on the verge of rolling out a Wikidot 1 site for housing a number of things, including our 300+ page Operations Manual.</p> <p>I'm very excited at the prospects of Wikidot 2!</p> <p>-Ed</p> 
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