Operating System independence

Most Tiki installations are on Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP. However, Tiki runs on more than just Linux. You can run it anywhere PHP can run. However, it is not as well tested and you may run into minor issues.

Starting with 5.x, Tiki is available in the Microsoft Web App Gallery at:
http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/Tiki.aspx
The installation is automated and generally reliable.

Related: Database Independence, Browser Compatibility

Windows compatibility project

Who

• Greg Martin
• Marc Laporte
• Jimmy Gilbert
• Chris Tingle
• You? We are looking for volunteers.

What

1. A large number proportion of forum posts are related to IIS or Windows hosting issues and many more are reported below.
2. It is thought that most are various symptoms of a small number of real issues. These issues are presumed easy to fix. These problems are typically path issues. This apparently was working well in 1.9.x and possibly some problems appeared in 2.x. So we should test side by side 1.9.x, 2.x and 3.x to detect issues.
3. Most of the active developers in Tiki use Linux and thus Windows issues are not naturally detected and solved.
4. There are various hacks/recipes to make Tiki work in various environments. These should be checked and added to the main code base.

Why

Some corporate environments require that web apps run on Windows. So, in these cases, adding a LAMP server is not practical. Tiki gains to have higher adoption by working on more platforms.

Priorities

Please re-order this list! (It's just a first draft for now)

1. WinXP + XAMPP works Install Tiki on XAMPP
2. WinXP + EasyPHP works (Windows Local Install EasyPhp

1. Win2008 Server, Apache, MySQL
2. Win2008 Server, IIS, MySQL Windows Server Install
3. Win2003 Server, IIS, MySQL (I submit that with Xampp there is already a workable solution for Apache)
4. Win2003 Server, Apache, MySQL (seems to work fine)
5. Standard shared Windows hosting like GoDaddy, etc.

Related links

http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-browse_categories.php?parentId=70

Keep web.config and .htaccess synchronized

The web_config file for IIS needs to be kept in sync with _htaccess (for Apache). Most modifications are done to htaccess.

To convert rules from Apache to IIS, see Importing Apache mod_rewrite Rules if you're on Windows and Translate .htaccess Content to IIS web.config for examples.

If you are adding (or otherwise modifying the configuration) for one of the servers and can't do it for the other, add an entry here pointing to your commit that needs to be ported to the other server.

Nothing to synchronize

Web App Gallery

• Microsoft Web Platform Installer

Related interview at Confoo 2010

Improve the documentation

Specific Windows install guides should be made if necessary

• Windows Server Install (including IIS)
• Windows Local Install EasyPhp and Windows Desktop Install

Contest

http://www.phponwindows.ca/ftw/

TRIM via FTP

TRIM will work with FTP somewhere during the Summer of 2009. now works with FTP. This will be yet another thing to make it easier to manage Tiki on Windows.

Items on wishlist

Open

	Rating	Subject	Importance	Category	Created
	(0)	mails not sent (missing carriage return in templates)	9 high	Bug: Error Bug: Usability	2009-02
	(1)	security issue: login issue	8	Bug: Error	2009-03
	(0)	Crash on a replication of site from Unix to Windows - and windows installation	7	Bug: Error Bug: conflict of two features (each works well independently)	2010-02
	(3)	Update to Tiki >= 5.3 fails on Windows ("Cannot execute queries while other unbuffered queries are active")	7	Bug: Error	2010-11
	(0)	Tiki 6.1 and later do not work under IIS 6, while 6.0 did	7	Bug: Error Bug: Regression Bug: Consistency Less than 30-minute fix	2011-02

Pending

Closed

	Rating	Subject	Importance	Category	Created
	(2)	Incorrect URLs on IIS installs in document root	9 high	Bug: Error Bug: Usability Patch Support request Documentation (or Advocacy) Bug: Consistency Problem	2009-01
	(0)	Wrong path with additional slash on IIS installs in document root	9 high	Bug: Error Bug: Usability Problem	2009-02
	(0)	_htaccess should know which version of Tiki it is for	9 high	Feature request Less than 30-minute fix	2009-12
	(1)	Tiki Installer Security Precaution on Windows installing in document root	8	Bug: Error Bug: Usability Bug: Regression Problem	2010-01
	(2)	404 Error instead of "Create Page" with unknown Wiki-page-name with IIS	7	Bug: Error Bug: Usability	2005-10
	(0)	MySQL-Errors approve+staging	7	Bug: Error	2008-07
	(2)	installation issues with v2.0 and MSSQL backend	7	Bug: Error	2008-09
	(1)	Button links broken on IIS installation	7	Bug: Usability Support request Bug: Consistency Problem	2009-05
	(0)	Incorrect base path detected when installing on IIS (Directory does not exist errors)	6	Bug: Error	2008-09
	(0)	Themes don't work on Windows server	5	Bug: Regression	2008-04
	(0)	twversion.class.php causes PHP-Error in Windows-Server	5	Bug: Error	2008-07
	(1)	TikiWiki crashing Apache	4		2007-02
	(1)	USB key version of Tiki	4	Feature request Community projects	2007-07
	(1)	Spelling error in dev Report a Bug page:	3	Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site Bug: Consistency	2008-07
	(0)	RSS feed broken by backslash if tw in root of subdomain	2	Bug: Error Bug: Usability Problem	2006-10
	(1)	Images don't appear to some people when using GD on Windows server (weird)	1 low	Bug: Error	2008-02
	(0)	Trailing backslash at domain in URLs when installed in DocumentRoot	1 low	Bug: Error Patch Problem	2008-12
	(5)	FCKEditor missing tikiwiki toolbar		Bug: Error Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site	2008-04

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