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) | database error in image galery after migration from 2.3 to 4.1 | o_kraut | 9 high | 45 |
| 2010-02-12 | 2010-02-12 | 0 | |||
(0) | Tiki 5.0 install with import of 4.2 database - invalid database generated | Bernard TREMBLAY | 9 high | 45 |
| 2010-07-08 | 2010-07-08 | 0 | |||
(0) | Installation: 6.1 install fails using Mysql 5.5.9 | ravas | 9 high | 45 |
| 2011-02-18 | 2011-02-18 | 0 | |||
(0) | Internal Eror (500) | waseem | 9 high | 45 | 2011-04-28 | 2011-04-28 | 1 arild-08 Oct 11 | ||||
(0) | After an install with upgrade, tiki-admin displays the error "invalid database" ad-vitam | Bernard TREMBLAY | 9 high | 45 |
| 2011-12-03 | 2011-12-07 | 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 | 45 |
| 2012-06-08 | 2012-06-08 | 1 marclaporte-09 Jun 12 | |||
(0) | First install from svn fails silently on composer | Jean-Marc Libs | 9 | 45 |
| 2013-11-17 | 2015-03-07 | 5 lphuberdeau-27 Nov 13 | |||
(0) | Add json support check in tiki-check.php | Marc Laporte | 5 | 9 | 45 |
| Frank Guthausen | 2013-11-21 | 2013-11-27 | 1 pascalstjean-21 Nov 13 | |
(0) | Kanban_Board_25 profile produces non-working setup | Xavi (as xavidp - admin) | 5 | 9 | 45 |
| 2023-06-04 | 2023-06-04 | 0 | ||
(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) | 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) | Admins /mods failed | othman | 1 low | 5 |
| 2008-08-04 | 2009-04-28 | 1 othman-04 Aug 08 | |||
(0) | first login after new install fails after install in subdirectory (tiki-change_password.php not foun | Nelson Ko | 1 low | 5 |
| 2008-03-01 | 2009-04-28 | 2 Chealer9-15 Oct 09 | |||
(0) | PHP Safe Mode Fix | alien | 5 | 10 easy | 50 |
| 2012-10-22 | 2013-10-28 | 1 alien-22 Oct 12 | ||
(0) | 13.x next.tiki.org -> Database Version Problem | Marc Laporte | 10 high | 50 |
| 2014-07-14 | 2014-07-14 | 0 | |||
(0) | Get nextthemes.tiki.org working (PHP 5.5 is required) | Marc Laporte | 5 | 10 easy | 50 |
| 2014-07-30 | 2014-07-30 | 0 | ||
(0) | Applying Profile thinks line with #foo selector in CSS code is a comment and omits it | luciash d' being 🧙 | 10 high | 50 |
| 2016-10-27 | 2016-10-27 | 3 luci-05 Dec 16 | |||
(0) | Installer destroys admin PW | hman | 10 high | 5 | 50 |
| 2021-10-31 | 2021-11-02 | 5 hman-01 Nov 21 | ||
(0) | Tiki does not create tables uniformly with collation utf8_unicode_ci | hman | 10 high | 5 | 50 |
| 2022-05-27 | 2022-05-27 | 6 hman-06 Jun 22 | ||
(0) | Tiki Install, UI; Redundancy is not require and not nice on the security page | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 5 | 10 easy | 50 |
| 2022-11-30 | 2022-11-30 | 0 |
Pending
Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
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(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) | 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) | 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) | 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) | SMTP Configuration from inside Admin Interface | morrighu | 8 | 40 |
| 2008-04-20 | 2009-04-11 | 7 sbhas2k-01 Aug 09 | |||
(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) | (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 |
| 2018-09-24 | 2018-10-27 | 6 jonnybradley-29 Oct 18 | ||
(0) | Multitiki customizations broken | Gary | 7 | 35 |
| Gary | 2005-04-28 | 2021-09-23 | 2 chibaguy-23 Sep 21 | ||
(0) | Make Tiki more robust to open_basedir issues | Marc Laporte | 7 | 35 |
| 2007-11-23 | 2007-11-27 | 0 | |||
(0) | Unknown column 'tweetId' in 'tiki_shoutbox' | Lusserall | 7 | 35 |
| 2011-10-27 | 2012-05-02 | 3 Chealer9-04 May 12 | |||
(0) | admin user doesn't have permission to edit structures by default | EricIsGood | 6 | 30 |
| 2008-11-01 | 2008-11-01 | 0 | |||
(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 | ||
(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) | Make sure Tiki is offered by all server control panels | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| Marc Laporte | 2006-01-17 | 2021-10-05 | 0 | ||
(0) | Getting Things Done (GTD) profile | Marc Laporte | 25 |
| 2008-03-09 | 2018-06-28 | 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) | sh setup.sh does not change directory permissions | Lusserall | 5 | 5 | 25 |
| 2012-10-07 | 2014-05-12 | 1 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 | 20 |
| 2008-08-07 | 2008-08-07 | 0 |
Closed
Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
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(0) | galleryId property no longer set in list_galleries after 1.9.7 upgrade | big-r | 5 | 25 |
| big-r | 2007-04-13 | 2007-05-29 | 2 andrewthetester-24 Aug 07 | ||
(0) | 1.9to1.10 sql from cvs (August 1st 2007) still produces "too long key/column length" errors | Xavier de Pedro | 5 | 25 |
| 2007-08-01 | 2010-03-31 | 0 | |||
(0) | output handler 'ob_gzhandler' cannot be used after 'URL-Rewriter' in tiki-setup.php on line 1890 | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| 2007-08-15 | 2020-02-26 | 1 drsassafras-26 Feb 20 | |||
(0) | Warning: error | behrendtb | 25 |
| behrendtb | 2007-08-26 | 2020-02-26 | 1 Chealer9-14 Jul 17 | |||
(0) | Unable to access themes.tw.o or info.tw.o with IE7 | Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties | 5 | 25 |
| Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties | 2007-09-03 | 2010-05-30 | 3 marclaporte-05 Dec 07 | ||
(0) | failed to set proper "include_path" in tw 1.9.8.x | bobcatt | 25 |
| 2007-10-15 | 2021-11-02 | 1 Bsfez-02 Nov 21 | ||||
(0) | Native multi-site/multi-domain handling | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| 2008-02-05 | 2008-02-26 | 0 | |||
(0) | tiki-install.php should have a note about how to create db/local.php "manually" | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| 2008-03-25 | 2010-07-18 | 0 | |||
(0) | Old password is not maintained in the Change PW screen | Rick Sapir / Tiki for Smarties | 5 | 25 |
| Jean-Marc Libs | 2008-04-04 | 2010-07-18 | 6 marclaporte-05 Apr 08 | ||
(0) | tiki 2.0: db password should be hidden at typing time on upgrade through tiki-install.php | Xavier de Pedro | 5 | 25 |
| Xavier de Pedro | 2008-08-13 | 2008-08-13 | 0 | ||
(0) | Installer fails against Oracle 10 DB | alexkmoch | 25 |
| 2008-10-06 | 2009-08-08 | 1 allgrand33-23 Dec 08 | ||||
(0) | multitiki cannot be installed with tiki-install.php in trunk | Xavier de Pedro | 25 |
| 2008-11-29 | 2009-09-24 | 0 | ||||
(0) | Installation error - cannot create database "tiki_profile_symbols" | n2fisher | 25 |
| 2008-12-14 | 2009-10-15 | 2 Chealer9-15 Oct 09 | ||||
(0) | clean install based on trunk shows 2 SQL errors | Xavier de Pedro | 25 |
| 2009-01-24 | 2009-10-15 | 2 RandyH-19 Jun 09 | ||||
(0) | sql error "specified key was too long" during install with utf-8 InnoDB mysql engine | lbmaian | 25 |
| 2009-05-20 | 2021-11-11 | 1 Bsfez-11 Nov 21 | ||||
(0) | Can not install on PostgreSQL | franck.lemonnier | 25 |
| 2009-08-21 | 2009-10-15 | 1 postpersonality-16 Sep 09 | ||||
(0) | Update problems | dclaar | 25 |
| 2010-01-14 | 2016-11-17 | 1 Chealer9-17 Jan 10 | ||||
(0) | tiki 9.0 install dies with PHP Fatal error Uncaught exception 'SmartyException' in smarty_security.php:381 | Dwokfur | 25 |
| 2012-06-27 | 2019-09-10 | 3 drsassafras-10 Sep 19 | ||||
(0) | tiki-install.php: "Upgrade fix" section should not be offered on fresh install of 12.x | Marc Laporte | 5 | 5 | 25 |
| manivannans | 2013-12-01 | 2013-12-08 | 0 | |
(0) | upgrade from 6.1 to 13.1 fails | Gergely | 25 |
| Jonny Bradley | 2015-01-29 | 2015-11-12 | 12 Gergely-07 Feb 15 |