Wikidot Dev Site

I used this guide to setup Wikidot with VMWare http://dev.wikidot.org/virtual-machine on my Windows Vista. I tested, that the system works somehow. I can load http://www.wikidot2.dev, which shows some php errors. I'm not so interested in wikidot2 though, I would like to possibly contribute to wikidot1 project. I tried to see this page http://www.wikidot1.dev, it connects, but the page is blank file. How can I generate test site?

Ok, now I managed to create a default page and default template page. The guides say I can login on my wikidot now, but auth:login site doesn't exist. I cannot login anywhere. What should I do now?

Got it! Had to run update-2008-08-19.php to generate auth pages. I think your guides need a major overhaul…there are too many of them and not one is up to date.

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

The dev.wikidot.org and www.wikidot.org (open source) sites seem to have been all but abandoned by the developers and most users. I just don't check in very often because there's little or no new activity when I do.

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

If anyone gets VM Ware working with this successfully, again, please let me know or — even better — write a tutorial. Would like to get this working but don't want to mess around with it for too long.