Category: Administration

Windows 10
Tiki version 19. installed with InnoDb.
Wamp64 ver 3.1.0,
apache 2.4.27
php 7.19

Issue: Composer setup.exe installed fine, yet tiki-admin.php?page=packages&cookietab=4
Diagnose option: Install Composer----Failed
~~#F00: Error
There was a problem when installing Composer.
The "https://getcomposer.org/versions" file could not be downloaded: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.
failed to open stream: php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: No such host is known.
~~
1. Composer downloaded and installed.
2. Logged off and log back in, to verify installation options were updated.
3. Shelled to D.O.S. and typed 'composer' and its help menu showed up immediately.
Verified PHP 7.19 was the path that would be utilized for PHP commands.
4. Verified CURL was active in the PHP extensions. Checked if 'git' was available, it wasn't.
5. Verified no proxy was running anywhere ( I don't utilize proxies, but checked just in case).
6. Ran TIKI / Diagnose/ Install composer and received the error.
7. Read information on github about the error but did not have issues relating to their troubles.
8. Backed up composer.json.dist and renamed the copy to composer.json which was
in the tiki root location.
9. Pressed the tiki install composer option, got same problem.
10. Deleted composer.json and got same problem (as if it wasn't looking for composer.json).

I was expecting that once composer was installed from Composer-Setup.exe,
the tiki / diagnose/install composer would execute the program utilizing proper install switches or at
least advise the admins that it can't be done on a local wamp64 server, or whatever the case may be.

I went to http://demo.tiki.org/12x/tiki-install.php to proceed to a test of the installer (for an upgrade, not fresh install) and I saw: "Database `d01863d1` was created" which doesn't make sense with ''Tiki found an existing database connection in your local.php file. Database name: "d01863d1"''

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The "No tabs" button to display all tab content areas in one view isn't working. Clicking the button just refreshes the page with the tab view again.

I have some unused pictures and i would delete them.

At tiki-admin.php?page=wiki the link "Remove unused pictures" ( tiki-admin.php?page=wiki&rmvunusedpic=1 ) does not work.

What can I do?

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WALKLiFE

The option
''Send an email to the user in order to allow him to validate his account. ''
in /tiki-adminusers.php ''Add New User'' tab
is only available if in /tiki-admin.php?page=login
''Users can register'' is ticked
Then and only then the hidden option becomes visible:
''Validate new user registrations by email''

By tickinig it the option
''Send an email to the user in order to allow him to validate his account. ''
in ''Add New User'' tab bcomes availabale.
This option should be available independend if or not the option ''Users can register'' is selected.

The ticking of a hidden configuration shouldn't be relevant for any functionality.

This is a new feature arrived in BRANCH-1-9

1. add feature_print and checks
2. add tiki_p_print and checks

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The above problem-description makes no sense... please look at tw#74 for that
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Problem rephrased:

The "Source" button is currently dependant on tiki_p_view_history - it should have a perm of its own.

We had just reconfigured the disk to RAID1 and backed up mysql, tiki, and php on our linux box.

Now, we are getting "Page cannot be displayed" after we edit the homepage and try to save it. It is happening on tiki-editpage.php but it is there. The permissions are 644 apache.

The second thing seen is the forums messages can't be accessed anymore.

Does anybody have experience with these problems? Any suggestions? Perhaps we should re-install all the software.

Hi there,
I've been starting to use [https://doc.tiki.org/Search+and+replace|Search and replace] tool. Great piece of tool!

I've spotted a bug there when trying to change:
* from ~np~{IMG(src="img/flags/United_Kingdom.gif",title="en anglais")}{IMG}~/np~
* to ~np~{en}~/np~

This bug makes that I end up with a ''half-process done'' since the replacement job is finishing with:
* ~np~{en}"img/flags/United_Kingdom.gif",title="en anglais")}{IMG}~/np~

It does look that the function ''replace'' doesn't handle having a __"__ in the ''what to replace''.

I would like a way to invite people to come to a Tiki site after I have added their login. (different of the use where people self-register)

Right now, I simulate a lost password message (which I customize).

Maybe this could become a new feature available to admins when

1- after a successful user creation at tiki-adminusers.php
2- when administering a user account
3- from : tiki-adminusers.php with the batch command to send to many new users.

The system would send an email with a one-click login and be sent to the user tracker
tiki-view_tracker_item.php?view=+user

Person who triggers this email alert should be in BCC. (to have a trace). Even better would be to have this logged somewhere but this could be for phase 2.

We could have a new mail template in templates/mail/welcome_message.tpl or in a wiki page (better!)


What do you think?

phpBB is a popular open source forum software.
Sometimes, a forum is not enough.
So, the data must be migrated from phpBB to Tiki forums...

If you want to help:
Please post links to similar scripts.
ex.: phpbb to invision board, etc
If/when we do a script, we should do for all major forums.
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__From kerrnel22 on 11/20/07:__

I have almost completed an integrated TikiWiki forum migration tool for 1.9.8.x and 1.10. Initial release will be to migrate only Tiki forums from one Tiki install to another. However, hooks are in place, and the intention is there, to work on extending the migration tool to importing of phpBB2 (or any other forum software) into Tiki. If you would like more information, email tiki.kerrnel@kerris.com. I expect a general release of the forum migration tool (for Tiki forums only) into cvs of both branches for beta testing by December 1/07. If all goes well, I'll have something released for phpBB2 migration prior to Dec 31.

When I set the homepage in Administration: General Preferences to "Articles" (which is what I want the homepage to be for both anonymous and registered visitors), the initial viewing for "anonymous" displays a homepage of "wiki".

When I set the homepage in Administration: General Preferences to Group homepage and then set the two group homepages to a typed-in "Articles" in the empty field and then log in as any user, the display is "No page 'Articles' found".

When I set the homepage in Administration: General Preferences to Group homepage and then set the two group homepages to a custom URL (http://www.progressiveomaha.com/tikidir/tiki-view_articles.php), the display is "no such page found".

One day I thought maybe the problem had to do with using Firefox on a Linux box, because my ancient Windows 98/IE machine brought up 'Articles' as the home page.

The next day both machines bring up the Wiki page as the home page. This is with the homepage set to 'Articles' in Admin-General.

Maybe I should be clear that I am refering to which page is brought up when TikiWiki is first accessed (from www.progressiveomaha.com/tikidir/).external link Once I have logged in as a user, I will access the 'Articles' homepage whether returning as another user or as anonymous. The problem only occurs on that initial anonymous access, and only after TikiWiki has had time to "forget" any earlier logons by that user.

Seen here: http://next.tiki.org/tiki-admin.php?page=general

I tried in tiki.o to grant the permission to join group and subscribe to group for TwCommunity to "Team Documentation" , for instance, and I couldnt' grant that permission locally to just group Team Documentation, but it was changed to all groups.

I'm not sure right now whether this is a regression or not, but at least this seems a bug to me (or at least a feature request)

In the bottom bar of Tiki sites if activated there is some "debug" information. Notably:

{img src=images/code.png}%%% {CODE()}
[ xx database queries used ]
{CODE}

The SQL counter report is incorrect and reports higher number. Since this is making Tiki look bad for no good reason I am removing until it's fixed.

Please see:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=469E4D13.8010609%40gmail.com

When defining a field in a mirrored Tracker, the Description of the field is not stored. This was in 2.0, and I'm told on IRC that mirrored trackers are not supported. But mirroring is an option in Admin>Trackers.

Using the released tiki 2.0: db password should be hidden at typing time on upgrade through tiki-install.php

Right now, password can be seen by others when the admin type it on the screen when first calling to tiki-install.php on an upgrade of running tiki site.

Our users keep adding large .ogg files in our files galleries and we have been asked to externalize theses files in a special download directory of the web server. Problem is that the admin screen of the files galleries doesn't have a DISPLACE section. You can set the option for the files to be added in an external directory, and the new ones are indeed placed into it, but the existing files stay in the database.

I have discovered that the *Image* galleries admin screen has this DISPLACE section but it will work only for the image galleries, no way to use it for the non image galleries.

A Smarty error occurs when using various admin pages e.g. tiki-admin.php?page=look

It seems to be the same error on several pages:

PHP (5.2.6) ERROR (E_USER_WARNING):
File: Smarty.class.php
Line: 1092
Type: Smarty error: cycle: missing 'values' parameter


No longer relevant - 15th June 2013

This should be migrated to the community site, and handled with ((doc:Organic groups)) and ((doc:User Trackers))

This should be migrated to the community site, and handled with ((doc:Organic groups)) and ((doc:User Trackers))

This should be migrated to the community site, and handled with ((doc:Organic groups)) and ((doc:User Trackers))

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We are running Tiki 6.2 (clean install), on a Windows 2003 Server, Apache 2.2.16 w SSL, PHP 5.3.3, remote MySQL 5 database.

What we would like to do in our organization is for an admin to create group MyGroup and assign Bill to the group. The admin would then give the MyGroup object permissions:
* Can add group members (tiki_p_group_add_member)
* Can remove group members (tiki_p_group_remove_member)
* Can invite user to my groups (tiki_p_invite_to_my_groups)

At this point I would figure that there would be some kind of interface so that Bill could have a user selector and bring people into his group. I have checked around but I can not see any mechanism to do this.

We want to avoid our admin to manage groups for 1000's of users.

On a side note, we also investigated letting users select their own groups however we can also not find a mechanism to do this. We enabled all permissions we could think of such as:
* Can subscribe to groups (tiki_p_subscribe_groups)
* Can join or leave the group (tiki_p_group_join)
* In the group we selected "User can assign to the group himself"
but we can still not find where the user can change his group.

Our users sign in with their LDAP (AD) logins and therefore do not go through the Registration process.

Any help would be very much appreciated as this is a big issue for us right now.

The Tiki backup format is: http://doc.tiki.org/TRIM#make_backup

Todo:
* Set up backup server (could be using a *.tiki.org domain name)
* Nelson to provide a script for Marc to run on a cron job on each *.tiki.org sites that he is hosting.
** For security reasons, could be a good thing that this backup script can add only (and thus, that a compromised server can't be used to erase all our data)
* For the other servers managed by leu, changi and oliver, give them the same script or use an alternate method which provides the same result.
* Provide access to those backups to Jonny and LPH as they are needed to solve dogfood bugs, and they are great for performance testing.

If the script fails, there should be an alert to the Monitoring system (the community one managed by Tiki). So the script should signal some sort of success to Shinken instance we have.


Inspiration:
* http://dev.tiki.org/Command-line+tool#console.php_backup
* http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/doc/devtools/tim/tim-snapshot
* http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/HEAD/tree/trim/scripts/backup.php
* http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/doc/devtools/backup.php
* http://sourceforge.net/p/tikiwiki/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/doc/devtools/backupdb.sh

http://marclaporte-11197-4963.show.tikiwiki.org/tiki-admin.php?page=community

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Please make this Advanced not Basic {sign user="pascalstjean" datetime="2013-11-23T18:00:15+00:00"}

Currently, there are four preference filters available in the Control Panel interfaces: "Basic", "Advanced", "Experimental" and "Unavailable".

As a user new to Tiki, I have on several occasions noted features that looked interesting, but which I have not enabled as I have subsequently found it is planned to deprecate them. In some cases this was obvious (e.g. a 'warning' icon with the deprecation message on hover next to the feature checkbox), in others it wasn't (i.e. I only found out about it from doc.t.o or related places).

On the assumption that it will help with planned deprecations if new installations don't enable and start using deprecated features, I would propose that a "Deprecated" preference filter be added, that relevant controls be assigned to it, and that it be disabled by default in new installations.

I understand the criteria for such might be controversial (indeed, I hope I'm not reigniting a heated discussion by posting this!) and so would understand if this is WONTFIXED. I also recognise that it is less appropriate for a new user to suggest criteria here than for those that have had Tiki installations for some time and/or are directly involved in development, which is why I haven't listed any in this initial report.