related: TRIM
Some ideas to improve the Tiki installer:
add phpinfo as one of the steps (useful for troubleshooting)
Tiki 3 Installer Revamp
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
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
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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.phpdone
related links
http://www.bitweaver.org/photos/gallery/9/32
http://www.lulu.com/browse/preview.php?fCID=1154811 (pages from 6 to 10 of that book preview for WebGUI CMS/Groupware made on perl)
http://www.xaraya.com/index.php/documentation/97
http://ewiki.berlios.de/installer/
Examples
- 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.
- https://github.com/composer/installers
- http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4388513/how-i-can-create-installer-for-website-php-mysql
- http://cweiske.de/tagebuch/Generic%20PHP%20application%20installers.htm
- http://wiki.php-unconference.de/index.php?title=PhpUnconf2010SaturdaySessionA4
- http://qafoo.com/talks/11_10_ipc_a_generic_php_application_ionstaller.pdf
- http://tracker.arbitracker.org/arbit/development_wiki/view/Installer
- svn://arbitracker.org/arbit/projects/installer/trunk/buildArbitInstaller
- http://kore-nordmann.de/blog/0097_php_web_installer.html
- http://code.google.com/p/simplegroupware/downloads/detail?name=sgs_installer.php&can=2&q=
- http://www.spip.net/spip-dev/INSTALL/spip_loader.php
- http://code.google.com/p/pwai/
- https://www.ohloh.net/p/jijawi
Related: http://project-builder.org/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous%5F5-Minute%5FInstall
Tracker items
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Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
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(0) | Upgrade from 20 to 21: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method Tiki\Command\ProfileExport\ActivityRuleSet::setHidden() in lib/core/Tiki/Command/ConsoleApplicationBuilder.php:543 | Marc Laporte | 7 | 7 | 49 |
| drsassafras, rjsmelo | 2020-02-26 | 2020-02-27 | 12 marclaporte-27 Feb 20 | |
(0) | Tiki install; Database name doesn't accept uppercase (anymore?), requirement are unstated and the error verbose is wrong | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 5 | 7 | 35 |
| 2022-02-15 | 2022-02-15 | 1 mwabo-11 Mar 22 | ||
(0) | Installation; Clarification of the UTF-8 test/message after locking the Tiki | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 5 | 7 | 35 |
| Adrien | 2022-02-20 | 2022-02-20 | 2 John Santos Ndiwayesu-12 Mar 22 | |
(0) | Softaculous: On a fresh install, MyISAM is used instead of InnoDB | Marc Laporte | 3 | 7 | 21 |
| 2023-12-21 | 2023-12-21 | 0 | ||
(0) | automatic rename of _htaccess to .htaccess by tiki-install.php causes issues | Marc Laporte | 9 | 8 | 72 |
| 2009-05-04 | 2014-10-08 | 5 jonnybradley-21 Jan 15 | ||
(0) | http_build_query | Demoalt | 1 low | 8 | 8 |
| 2010-05-03 | 2010-05-03 | 1 Demoalt-04 May 10 | ||
(0) | Windows install | 7 | 8 | 56 |
| 2011-07-12 | 2011-07-12 | 0 | |||
(0) | lacking instruction on manual install page | 1 low | 8 | 8 |
| 2011-09-15 | 2011-09-15 | 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 |
| 2013-12-13 | 2013-12-13 | 0 | ||
(0) | Bug Updating Imported DB on Upgrade | mstovenour | 10 high | 8 | 80 |
| 2014-02-23 | 2014-02-23 | 0 | ||
(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 |
| 2016-01-25 | 2016-02-20 | 2 xavi-21 Feb 16 | ||
(0) | Installation; HomePage not found error after new installation | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 10 high | 8 | 80 |
| 2016-07-09 | 2022-12-19 | 2 jonnybradley-12 Jan 23 | ||
(0) | sender_email can't be set as $profilerequest:sender_email$YourEmail@example.com$ | Xavier de Pedro | 3 | 8 | 24 |
| 2016-10-14 | 2017-01-09 | 1 luci-19 Oct 16 | ||
(0) | Profile application via wizard or Suggested Profiles quietly fails on Tiki 17+ | Xavier de Pedro | 9 | 8 | 72 |
| Jonny Bradley | 2017-06-25 | 2019-07-06 | 11 xavi-06 Jul 19 | |
(0) | Allow searching by categories and TAGS through the Profiles Control Panel in Tiki | Xavier de Pedro | 8 | 8 | 64 |
| 2017-08-19 | 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 |
| 2017-08-19 | 2017-08-19 | 1 Torsten-19 Aug 17 | ||
(1) | Error just after profile is applied: Cache file temp/cache/modulexxx is not writable | Xavier de Pedro | 6 | 8 | 48 |
| 2019-07-06 | 2019-07-06 | 0 | ||
(0) | Add a more graceful error message for unmet dependencies | Marc Laporte | 9 | 8 | 72 |
| 2021-12-16 | 2021-12-16 | 1 marclaporte-16 Dec 21 | ||
(0) | The installation script should end with an automatic (optional) registration to Tiki.org | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 7 | 8 | 56 |
| 2024-02-03 | 2024-02-03 | 0 | ||
(0) | domain redirect from *.tikiwiki.org to *.tiki.org is not working | Marc Laporte | 9 | 9 | 81 |
| 2013-06-11 | 2014-08-30 | 5 Jyhem-01 Sep 14 |
Pending
Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
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(2) | setup.sh: Hardcoded "php" entries | aexoxea | 3 | 9 | 27 |
| 2017-10-01 | 2018-04-30 | 1 marclaporte-03 Oct 17 | ||
(0) | Username can't have space in it for messageing system Bug | Andriy Podanenko | 5 | 5 | 25 |
| sylvieg | 2005-06-24 | 2021-09-29 | 4 Jyhem-29 Sep 21 | |
(0) | setup.sh does not work as documented on Debian | asphaltjesus | 1 low | 5 |
| asphaltjesus | 2008-04-25 | 2008-09-03 | 3 fmg-12 May 14 | ||
(0) | Installer: at end of successful install, big red PHP mem warning box can be inconsistent w text abov | cativan | 3 | 15 |
| 2008-11-05 | 2008-11-05 | 0 | |||
(0) | tiki-install.php: SELECT patch_name FROM tiki_schema Table 'tikiwiki3.tiki_schema' doesn't exist | EricIsGood | 25 |
| 2008-11-01 | 2008-11-01 | 1 Chealer9-15 Oct 09 | ||||
(0) | admin user doesn't have permission to edit structures by default | EricIsGood | 3 | 15 |
| 2008-11-01 | 2008-11-01 | 0 | |||
(0) | admin user doesn't have permission to edit structures by default | EricIsGood | 6 | 30 |
| 2008-11-01 | 2008-11-01 | 0 | |||
(0) | Multitiki customizations broken | Gary | 7 | 35 |
| Gary | 2005-04-28 | 2021-09-23 | 2 chibaguy-23 Sep 21 | ||
(0) | When system runs out of disk space, Tiki user will not be able to login. | Nelson Ko | 1 low | 5 |
| 2007-07-19 | 2008-02-07 | 3 marclaporte-03 Nov 12 | |||
(0) | Unknown column 'tweetId' in 'tiki_shoutbox' | Lusserall | 7 | 35 |
| 2011-10-27 | 2012-05-02 | 3 Chealer9-04 May 12 | |||
(0) | sh setup.sh does not change directory permissions | Lusserall | 5 | 5 | 25 |
| 2012-10-07 | 2014-05-12 | 1 fmg-12 May 14 | ||
(0) | Make sure Tiki is offered by all server control panels | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| Marc Laporte | 2006-01-17 | 2021-10-05 | 0 | ||
(0) | Make Tiki more robust to open_basedir issues | Marc Laporte | 7 | 35 |
| 2007-11-23 | 2007-11-27 | 0 | |||
(0) | Reporting errors (to tiki.org) system (like Firefox Talkback) | Marc Laporte | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| 2007-11-26 | 2021-10-31 | 2 Bsfez-31 Oct 21 | ||
(0) | Getting Things Done (GTD) profile | Marc Laporte | 25 |
| 2008-03-09 | 2018-06-28 | 0 | ||||
(0) | Make Unified Index optional | Marc Laporte | 10 high | 8 | 80 |
| Nelson Ko | 2013-06-09 | 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 |
| Nelson Ko | 2013-06-09 | 2018-02-09 | 1 marclaporte-24 Aug 13 | |
(0) | Detect BOM in a Tiki health check and in release process | Marc Laporte | 8 | 5 | 40 |
| drsassafras | 2013-11-23 | 2020-03-04 | 2 drsassafras-04 Mar 20 | |
(0) | 12.0 fresh install: sh setup.sh tries and fails to install developer tools | Marc Laporte | 10 high | 8 | 80 |
| 2013-11-29 | 2013-11-29 | 1 jonnybradley-04 Mar 14 | ||
(0) | On a fresh install, the page title of the Home Page should be hidden | Marc Laporte | 3 | 10 easy | 30 |
| 2018-10-11 | 2022-04-27 | 2 marclaporte-29 Apr 22 |
Closed
Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
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(0) | Undefined index on trunk (innoDB) new install | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 1 low | 5 | 5 |
| 2017-09-24 | 2017-12-05 | 1 luci-25 Sep 17 | ||
(0) | Predogfood servers should include files; was:nextthemes.tiki.org/Themes slider shows super small images | Marc Laporte | 7 | 7 | 49 |
| 2013-11-11 | 2015-05-29 | 0 | ||
(0) | svn update FAILS to update on show.t.o instance linked to dev.t.o bug tracker item | Xavier de Pedro | 7 | 7 | 49 |
| 2016-03-03 | 2016-04-06 | 0 | ||
(0) | PHP Fatal error with ANY profile since 15.x: Search_MySql_LimitReachedException Incorrect datetime value: '0000-00-00 00:00:00' for column 'creation_date' | Xavier de Pedro | 8 | 6 | 48 |
| Jonny Bradley | 2016-05-18 | 2016-05-26 | 3 xavi-24 May 16 | |
(0) | Profile preview fails with ugly CSRF error | luciash d' being 🧙 | 8 | 6 | 48 |
| rjsmelo, Jorge Sá Pereira, lindon | 2018-08-23 | 2019-01-22 | 7 luci-22 Jan 19 | |
(0) | tiki-install only allows 16 characters in database username | Mai Lapyst | 6 | 8 | 48 |
| 2021-08-02 | 2021-10-05 | 3 jean-paul.hamuli-04 Oct 21 | ||
(0) | LiveSupport broken in 1.9.3 CVS | Fabián Rodríguez | 9 high | 45 |
| Fabián Rodríguez | 2006-04-04 | 2009-04-20 | 2 marclaporte-29 Jan 08 | ||
(0) | Need way to auto assign tiki_p_edit_categories (for tiki_p_view_categories) on upgrade to 1.10 | Nelson Ko | 9 high | 45 |
| Nelson Ko | 2007-06-05 | 2011-12-18 | 4 SEWilco-31 Jul 08 | ||
(0) | Access denied for user 'tikiwiki'@'localhost' (using password: YES) | BiG_NoBoDy | 9 high | 45 |
| BiG_NoBoDy | 2007-07-26 | 2007-07-27 | 0 | ||
(0) | database mysql 3.23.58 install problems | chun | 9 high | 45 |
| 2007-07-29 | 2008-01-31 | 1 dthacker-24 Dec 07 | |||
(0) | Installer fails numerous sql creates with Incorrect sub part key or Specified key was too long error | Mike | 9 high | 45 |
| Mike | 2007-08-30 | 2007-08-30 | 0 | ||
(0) | Tiki site in a box (Profile Manager) | alain_desilets | 9 high | 45 |
| Louis-Philippe Huberdeau | 2007-11-23 | 2013-06-05 | 0 | ||
(0) | DB error with new 1.10 install or upgrade over 1.9.9 | fruman44 | 9 high | 45 |
| 2008-02-02 | 2008-02-06 | 0 | |||
(0) | Wishlist from Admin Interface | morrighu | 9 high | 45 |
| Nelson Ko | 2008-04-20 | 2010-01-13 | 2 morrighu-23 Apr 08 | ||
(0) | Test for PHP5 and provide graceful error message | Marc Laporte | 9 high | 45 |
| 2008-06-03 | 2009-04-20 | 0 | |||
(0) | tikiwiki only can install with default database | othman | 9 high | 45 |
| 2008-08-15 | 2008-09-03 | 2 othman-16 Aug 08 | |||
(0) | add language selection list on Installer page | baijianpeng | 9 high | 45 |
| baijianpeng | 2008-09-26 | 2009-04-18 | 0 | ||
(0) | Allow a user role or group to automatically generate a personal page, an image gallery, a weblog a | dweade | 9 high | 45 |
| Louis-Philippe Huberdeau | 2008-11-06 | 2010-02-06 | 2 marclaporte-06 Feb 10 | ||
(0) | templates_c is not included in .zip file | Marc Laporte | 9 high | 45 |
| 2008-11-12 | 2009-05-07 | 0 | |||
(0) | Incorrect URLs on IIS installs in document root | thebookdoc | 9 high | 45 |
| Philippe Cloutier | 2009-01-06 | 2010-05-15 | 6 AJStevens-16 Dec 09 |