Install

related: TRIM

Some ideas to improve the Tiki installer:

add phpinfo as one of the steps (useful for troubleshooting)

Tiki 3 Installer Revamp

Over here

Bugs

Tiki 10.0 fresh install
- tiki-install.php email address field doesn't have validation (at least for non-empty value)
- "Experiencing problems with the upgrade? Your administrator account lost its privileges? This may occur if you upgraded from a very old version of Tiki." is offered even if it's a fresh install
- dozens of warnings : PHP (5.3.18-nmm1) ERROR (E_WARNING): File: lib/codemirror_tiki/tiki_codemirror.php Line: 31 Type: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()
http://www.nabble.com/Installation-interface:-white-screen-after-choosing-the-profile-for-installation-t3821124.html

Pre-install script

Server check

Install script

All these setting above should also be checked in tiki-install.php and in the Tiki admin panel, because our host could have changed some settings, moved us to a new server or upgraded the PHP version, etc. so it's better to not just have in the installer. We could put all this info and server-related settings here: tiki-admin.php?page=server For example, the "OS" choice here: tiki-admin.php?page=general All done in tiki-check.php, which is in Tiki and available as standalone.

Nice to have

~~Like TRIM, for database creation to be possible via the install script (won't work on most many hosts)~~ Done by Jyhem
~~test if the upgrade script has been run and put a note in tiki-admin.php~~ done

Examples

Why not using the nice Bitweaver Installer as a base or guide for the Tiki installer? http://www.bitweaver.org/photos/gallery/9/32 (16 screenshots here showing the whole process) . Xavi

Analysis of 12 CMS systems in French

UI Improvements

Here are some ideas ricks99 has been playing with to improve the out-of-the-box experience.

MediaWiki installer

Install with one file

Investigate a TRIM-like application that works directly on the remote instance. A small php or shell script which fetches the latest version of Tiki and installs it. (Could be impossible because of limited file permissions that php scripts, with Apache rights, that have limited permissions). mods have this issue.

Tracker items

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Rating	Subject	Submitted by	Importance	Easy to solve?	Priority	Category	Volunteered to solve	LastModif	Comments
(1)	Search index could not be updated. The site is misconfigured. Contact an administrator.	Marc Laporte	9	1 difficult	9	Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site Conflict of two features (each works well independently) Indexing		2015-05-19	2 xavi-29 May 18
(0)	Install fails on step 5 on Dreamhost shared hosting	Steve Lyskawa	9	1 difficult	9	Error		2014-03-03	0
(0)	Tiki release script should indicate what libs were updated since last release	Marc Laporte	3	3	9	Documentation (or Advocacy) Community projects		2017-08-26	0
(0)	domain redirect from .tikiwiki.org to .tiki.org is not working	Marc Laporte	9	9	81	Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site Regression		2014-08-30	5 Jyhem-01 Sep 14
(0)	Bug Updating Imported DB on Upgrade	mstovenour	10 high	8	80	Error		2014-02-23	0
(0)	http_build_query	Demoalt	1 low	8	8	Documentation (or Advocacy) Less than 30-minutes fix		2010-05-03	1 Demoalt-04 May 10
(0)	lacking instruction on manual install page		1 low	8	8	Usability Documentation (or Advocacy) Less than 30-minutes fix		2011-09-15	0
(0)	automatic rename of _htaccess to .htaccess by tiki-install.php causes issues	Marc Laporte	9	8	72	Conflict of two features (each works well independently)		2014-10-08	5 jonnybradley-21 Jan 15
(0)	Profile application via wizard or Suggested Profiles quietly fails on Tiki 17+	Xavier de Pedro	9	8	72	Regression	Jonny Bradley	2019-07-06	11 xavi-06 Jul 19
(0)	switch lang in installer does nothing	Xavier de Pedro	9	8	72	Error Usability Regression		2019-07-08	0
(0)	File names should not have tiki	samerafach	10 high	7	70	Usability		2015-02-18	0
(0)	Allow searching by categories and TAGS through the Profiles Control Panel in Tiki	Xavier de Pedro	8	8	64	Usability Feature request Support request Community projects Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site Consistency		2017-08-19	0
(1)	Add a grid / masonry display for the profiles in the Profiles Wizard with filters	Xavier de Pedro	8	8	64	Usability Feature request Community projects Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site		2017-08-19	1 Torsten-19 Aug 17
(0)	Profiles: $profilerequest ignores user input when applying a profile	luciash d' being 🧙‍♂️	9	7	63	Regression		2017-06-20	1 luci-20 Jun 17
(0)	Fatal error on Tiki 15 to 19 upgrade	Gary Cunningham-Lee	7	9	63	Support request		2019-02-03	1 jonnybradley-09 Feb 19
(0)	OpenSourceCMS type demo to test/develop and show off profiles	Marc Laporte	8	7	56	Feature request Community projects Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site		2018-10-19	2 luci-22 Oct 18
(0)	Windows install		7	8	56	Error Less than 30-minutes fix		2011-07-12	0
(1)	Neihter show_image.php?id=NN nor imageNN work as-is after upgrade from 9.x to 12.x	Xavier de Pedro	7	8	56	Regression		2013-12-13	0
(0)	Change Admin Password Prompt Does Not Appear	drsassafras	8	7	56	Error Usability		2018-10-04	1 Chealer9-08 Jan 19
(0)	Provide a tablesorter-powered list of profiles in the Profiles Wizard bundled in Tiki to filter on features, tags, names and such	Xavier de Pedro	6	9	54	Feature request Support request Community projects		2017-01-06	0
(0)	PHP Safe Mode Fix	alien	5	10 easy	50	Error		2013-10-28	1 alien-22 Oct 12
(0)	Get nextthemes.tiki.org working (PHP 5.5 is required)	Marc Laporte	5	10 easy	50	Community projects Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site Regression		2014-07-30	0
(0)	output handler 'ob_gzhandler' cannot be used after 'URL-Rewriter' in tiki-setup.php on line 1890	Marc Laporte	1 low	5	5	Error		2013-10-28	0
(0)	Error just after profile is applied: Cache file temp/cache/modulexxx is not writable	Xavier de Pedro	6	8	48	Usability Regression Bug		2019-07-06	0
(0)	Add json support check in tiki-check.php	Marc Laporte	5	9	45	Feature request	Frank Guthausen	2013-11-27	1 pascalstjean-21 Nov 13
(0)	6.7 LTS: Possible security threat: Logging into Wiki A as admin may raise your privilege level in Wiki B	hman	7	6	42	Error Feature request		2012-06-01	0
(0)	allow_comments or comments from a profile blog definition stopped working	Xavier de Pedro	6	7	42	Community projects Regression Less than 30-minutes fix		2014-02-26	0
(0)	13.1 and 14.0 installer keeps asking for validating my db credentials	Gergely	7	6	42	Error		2015-09-21	4 Gergely-23 Sep 15
(0)	Tighter integration with Apache's > .htaccess (error messages, etc.)	Marc Laporte	8	5	40	Feature request Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site		2018-02-09	1 amette-04 Dec 08
(0)	Detect BOM in a Tiki health check and in release process	Marc Laporte	8	5	40	Feature request	drsassafras	2017-06-03	1 drsassafras-03 Jun 17
(0)	Indexing failed while processing "Update" (type wiki page) with the error "RemoteTransportException[	Marc Laporte	8	5	40	Error Indexing	Nelson Ko	2013-11-30	0
(0)	Profiles wizard doesn't get profiles loaded successfully and no link to click on once in control panel	Xavier de Pedro	6	6	36	Error Regression Bug		2019-07-06	1 xavi-08 Jul 19
(0)	Cron option for when it's not possible to have a real cron job (like Poormanscron)	Marc Laporte	7	5	35	Feature request		2013-10-28	1 xavidp-09 Sep 13
(0)	15.x: Allow running console.php to apply profiles from behind a proxy (to run new R script to check errors when testing the application on all Profiles on several tiki branches)	Xavier de Pedro	4	8	32	Feature request Support request Community projects Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site Less than 30-minutes fix		2016-02-20	2 xavi-21 Feb 16
(0)	.phar support is needed for Composer	Marc Laporte	3	10 easy	30	Feature request	Frank Guthausen	2013-11-24	1 koth-24 Nov 13
(0)	On a fresh install, the page title of the Home Page should be hidden	Marc Laporte	3	10 easy	30	Usability Less than 30-minutes fix		2018-10-11	0
(0)	PHP Notice: Undefined index:	Lusserall	4	7	28	Error	manivannans	2013-10-28	0
(1)	after upgrade from 9.x to 12.x wiki pages with html code are reopened wrongly with wysiywg editor and no way to switch to normal through UI	Xavier de Pedro	7	4	28	Error Usability Regression		2014-04-24	0
(0)	System error when attempting to enable blog comments on a blog created by a profile	Xavier de Pedro	7	4	28	Error Conflict of two features (each works well independently)		2017-08-05	0
(0)	See PHP error logs from within Tiki	Marc Laporte	5	5	25	Feature request		2013-11-29	0
(1)	Create a profile for an improved Issue Tracker (with linked trackers) using the latest improvements in 14x	Xavier de Pedro	5	5	25	Feature request Community projects Developer Training		2015-03-17	0
(0)	php 5.6+: featured profile collab community fails: "An error occurred: Column 'user' cannot be null"	Xavi (as xavidp - admin)	5	5	25	Error Regression		2016-05-05	0
(0)	R_demo profile doens't get fully aplied in 15.x complaining of some prefs that are defined (Tracker Field Factory Error: Pref "trackerfield_file" required ....)	Xavier de Pedro	5	5	25	Community projects Regression		2017-01-09	0
(0)	composer.lock; automate the updates for each branch, from latest composer.json	Marc Laporte	5	5	25	Feature request Community projects		2018-10-24	0
(0)	Connect & Redactor: use a pref attribute instead of maintaining lists of prefs	Marc Laporte	6	4	24	Feature request Consistency		2013-11-13	1 koth-11 Nov 13
(0)	Installer timeout issue	Nelson Ko	6	4	24	Error		2014-05-20	4 koth-02 Jul 14
(0)	tiki.org 13x : Illegal mix of collations (utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_unicode_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation '='	Marc Laporte	8	3	24	Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site Regression		2014-08-14	0
(0)	sender_email can't be set as $profilerequest:sender_email$YourEmail@example.com$	Xavier de Pedro	3	8	24	Error Community projects Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site Conflict of two features (each works well independently)		2017-01-09	1 luci-19 Oct 16
(0)	18.x svn: Data too long for column 'log' at row 1	Xavier de Pedro	6	4	24	Error Community projects Regression		2018-09-23	1 chibaguy-15 Oct 18
(0)	mysql5.7: ttif.value which is not functionally dependent on columns in GROUP BY clause; this is incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by	Xavi (as xavidp - admin)	5	4	20	Error Regression	Xavier de Pedro	2017-02-01	0
(0)	During Installation Progress Bar runs runs twice	Yves Kipondo	4	5	20	Bug		2019-06-28	0
(0)	Reporting errors (to tiki.org) system (like Firefox Talkback)	Marc Laporte	5	3	15	Feature request		2013-10-28	1 marclaporte-18 Aug 12
(1)	Error in upgrade script (function upgrade_20120429_fix_collation_tiki)	samandiriel	10 high	10 easy	100	Error		2014-01-17	0
(0)	The version lifecycle is not being respected	Marc Laporte	10 high	10 easy	100	Community projects		2014-10-13	0
(0)	first login after new install fails after install in subdirectory (tiki-change_password.php not foun	Nelson Ko	1 low		0	Error Usability		2009-04-28	2 Chealer9-15 Oct 09
(0)	Admins /mods failed	othman	1 low		0	Error Usability		2009-04-28	1 othman-04 Aug 08
(0)	TikiSheet inoperable on 3.0 beta 4 with Company Intranet Profile	mizraith			0	Error		2011-10-09	0
(0)	Make it possible to have a message only visible on first run (ex.: u: admin p: admin)		5		0	Usability Feature request		2009-05-18	0
(0)	sql error "specified key was too long" during install with utf-8 InnoDB mysql engine	lbmaian			0	Error		2009-05-20	0
(0)	keep user information as the user selected on tw.o	Xavier de Pedro	4		0	Community projects Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site Regression		2009-07-06	0
(0)	database error in image galery after migration from 2.3 to 4.1	o_kraut	9 high		0	Error Support request		2010-02-12	0
(0)	Installer Failes with german language selected	KingBBQ			0	Error		2010-05-09	0
(0)	check_feature fields missing from tables when upgrading fom 2.1 to 5	wonder_trout	3		0	Error Regression Consistency		2010-12-22	0
(0)	Tiki 5.0 install with import of 4.2 database - invalid database generated	Bernard TREMBLAY	9 high		0	Error Consistency		2010-07-08	0
(0)	Theme and Tools for MediaWiki migration	Christophe	8		0	Feature request		2011-10-03	0
(0)	File galleries broken after 4.3 to 5.x upgrade	ripero	8		0	Error Support request		2010-09-26	1 ripero-27 Sep 10
(0)	Upgrade database gives a blank page	Lusserall	2		0	Error		2010-11-13	1 Chealer9-08 Jun 11
(0)	Update to Tiki >= 5.3 fails on Windows ("Cannot execute queries while other unbuffered queries are active")	Gregor (gta74)	7		0	Error		2016-07-10	5 Chealer9-10 Jul 16
(0)	Installer quiets errors in all database queries	Philippe Cloutier	5		0			2010-12-16	1 LordVan-06 Apr 11
(0)	Crash 7.x on leaving install update mode : index error in a	Bernard TREMBLAY	8		0	Error Consistency Less than 30-minutes fix		2011-01-17	0
(0)	Installation: 6.1 install fails using Mysql 5.5.9	ravas	9 high		0	Error		2011-02-18	0
(0)	Tiki Installer Disabled	kop	5		0	Consistency		2011-02-22	1 Chealer9-22 Feb 11
(0)	Internal Eror (500)	waseem	9 high		0			2011-04-28	1 arild-08 Oct 11
(0)	Problem with Proxy autentication - download Profiles	Elías Cisneros	8		0	Feature request Support request		2011-05-10	1 xavi-10 May 11
(0)	Profile Validation	Pascal St-Jean	8		0	Error Usability		2011-05-10	0
(0)	Problem with new installation - v7 - cookies not enabled		7		0	Error		2011-07-06	0
(0)	At the end of installer from 4.x to now 8.1, the run of session crashes with an exception "session start"	Bernard TREMBLAY	8		0			2011-11-20	0
(0)	After an install with upgrade, tiki-admin displays the error "invalid database" ad-vitam	Bernard TREMBLAY	9 high		0	Error Usability Regression Consistency		2011-12-07	0
(0)	Tiki 6.x to Tiki 8.x upgrade with Latin-1 to UTF-8 conversion	Marc Laporte	5		0	Error		2012-01-08	1 Chealer9-20 Jan 12
(0)	Tiki installer with Softaculous on webhostingpad.com: failure of regular click to apply featured profile	Marc Laporte	8		0	Error		2012-01-12	0
(0)	Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Zend_Oauth_Consumer in /usr/share/php/libzend-framework-php/Zend/Oauth/Consumer.php on line 279	gkisling	9 high		0	Error Usability		2012-06-08	1 marclaporte-09 Jun 12
(0)	tiki 9.0 install dies with PHP Fatal error Uncaught exception 'SmartyException' in smarty_security.php:381	Dwokfur			0			2012-06-27	2 ssanders-12 Sep 12
(0)	First install from svn fails silently on composer	Jean-Marc Libs	9		0	Usability		2015-03-07	5 lphuberdeau-27 Nov 13
(0)	Update notification: Version 11.2 is still supported. However, a major upgrade to 9.0 is available	Marc Laporte			0	Error		2014-06-04	0
(0)	13.x next.tiki.org -> Database Version Problem	Marc Laporte	10 high		0	Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site Regression		2014-07-14	0
(0)	YAML: one line preference containing operand characters results in PHP fatal error when applying profile	luciash d' being 🧙‍♂️			0	Error		2016-10-19	0
(0)	Applying Profile thinks line with #foo selector in CSS code is a comment and omits it	luciash d' being 🧙‍♂️	10 high		0	Usability		2016-10-27	3 luci-05 Dec 16
(0)	Profiles exporter exports only those custom modules which are assigned to a module zone	luciash d' being 🧙‍♂️			0	Usability Feature request		2017-09-06	0
(0)	"Server Fitness" (tiki-check.php) Never Opens	John Morris	5		0	Usability		2018-06-08	8 jmorris-16 May 19
(0)	setup.sh not utilizing found PHP version	drsassafras			0	Bug		2018-10-09	0
(0)	403 Error on installaition	Loïc Yabili			0	Bug		2019-06-27	0
(0)	installation bug	Alex	6		0	Error		2019-07-15	0

Rating	Subject	Submitted by	Importance	Easy to solve?	Priority	Category	Volunteered to solve	LastModif	Comments
(0)	Make Unified Index optional	Marc Laporte	10 high	8	80	Feature request Conflict of two features (each works well independently) Indexing	Nelson Ko	2013-11-04	3 marclaporte-22 Nov 13
(0)	URL Rewriting Revamp: adding to Tiki log or error log so we catch them all through usage	Marc Laporte	10 high	8	80	Feature request	Nelson Ko	2018-02-09	1 marclaporte-24 Aug 13
(0)	12.0 fresh install: sh setup.sh tries and fails to install developer tools	Marc Laporte	10 high	8	80	Release Blocker		2013-11-29	1 jonnybradley-04 Mar 14
(0)	Testing if GD or Imagick works, via Tiki	Marc Laporte	5	8	40	Usability Feature request Less than 30-minutes fix		2012-04-29	4 ricks99-13 Jan 10
(0)	(A blocker if confirmed) errors in trunk database upgrade through console.php keys too long and invalid default value	Xavier de Pedro	8	5	40	Error Release Blocker		2018-10-27	6 jonnybradley-29 Oct 18
(2)	setup.sh: Hardcoded "php" entries	aexoxea	3	9	27	Consistency		2018-04-30	1 marclaporte-03 Oct 17
(0)	sh setup.sh does not change directory permissions	Lusserall	5	5	25	Regression		2014-05-12	1 fmg-12 May 14
(0)	buttons to enter tiki with or without locking it overlap	Xavier de Pedro	1 low	10 easy	10	Usability Regression	Benoit Roy	2019-07-09	1 benoit.roy-09 Jul 19
(0)	When system runs out of disk space, Tiki user will not be able to login.	Nelson Ko	1 low		0	Feature request		2008-02-07	3 marclaporte-03 Nov 12
(0)	Warning: error	behrendtb			0	Error	behrendtb	2017-07-14	1 Chealer9-14 Jul 17
(0)	failed to set proper "include_path" in tw 1.9.8.x	bobcatt			0	Error		2008-06-02	0
(0)	Multitiki customizations broken	Gary	7		0	Error	Gary	2005-10-09	0
(0)	Make Tiki more robust to open_basedir issues	Marc Laporte	7		0	Error Feature request		2007-11-27	0
(0)	Wiki Ratings doesn't activate upgrading from 1.8.5	xia	5		0	Error		2007-06-03	0
(0)	Getting Things Done (GTD) profile	Marc Laporte			0	Feature request		2018-06-28	0
(0)	SMTP Configuration from inside Admin Interface	morrighu	8		0	Usability Feature request		2009-04-11	7 sbhas2k-01 Aug 09
(0)	setup.sh does not work as documented on Debian	asphaltjesus	1 low		0	Error	asphaltjesus	2008-09-03	3 fmg-12 May 14
(0)	Running upgrade from 1.9.x to 2.x requires being logged into the app before starting process	Steve	4		0	Usability Documentation (or Advocacy)		2008-08-07	0
(0)	tiki-install.php: SELECT patch_name FROM tiki_schema Table 'tikiwiki3.tiki_schema' doesn't exist	EricIsGood			0	Error		2008-11-01	1 Chealer9-15 Oct 09
(0)	admin user doesn't have permission to edit structures by default	EricIsGood	3		0	Usability		2008-11-01	0
(0)	admin user doesn't have permission to edit structures by default	EricIsGood	6		0	Usability		2008-11-01	0
(0)	Installer: at end of successful install, big red PHP mem warning box can be inconsistent w text abov	cativan	3		0	Usability		2008-11-05	0
(0)	Username can't have space in it for messageing system Bug	Andriy Podanenko	9		0	Error Usability	sylvieg	2013-06-05	0
(0)	Unknown column 'tweetId' in 'tiki_shoutbox'	Lusserall	7		0	Error		2012-05-02	3 Chealer9-04 May 12
(0)	Make sure Tiki is offered by all server control panels	Marc Laporte	5		0	Community projects	Marc Laporte	2006-01-17	0
(0)	Make tiki-mods.php report more detailed error	Fabián Rodríguez	5		0	Error Usability		2007-06-02	1 asphaltjesus-25 Apr 08
(0)	Site Not Available Notice after running tiki-install.php	aminor19			0	Error		2015-10-09	0
(0)	SEF URL Search Engine Friendly URL	artbody	8		0	Usability Feature request Patch Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site	artbody	2009-04-24	6 SEWilco-16 Jul 08
(0)	tikiwiki calls non-existent pear library without checking that library is installed	Jean-Marc Libs			0	Error		2010-10-08	1 Chealer9-08 Oct 10

Note

Please wait

Some ideas to improve the Tiki installer:

Tiki 3 Installer Revamp

Bugs

Pre-install script

Install script

Nice to have

related links

Examples

UI Improvements

MediaWiki installer

Install with one file

Tracker items

Open

Pending

Closed

Note

Please wait

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Structures

Page actions

Install

Some ideas to improve the Tiki installer:

Tiki 3 Installer Revamp

Bugs

Pre-install script

Install script

Nice to have

related links

Examples

UI Improvements

MediaWiki installer

Install with one file

Tracker items

Open

Pending

Closed