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) | Tiki 6.x to Tiki 8.x upgrade with Latin-1 to UTF-8 conversion | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| 2012-01-08 | 2012-01-08 | 1 Chealer9-20 Jan 12 | |||
(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) | 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 | 40 | 2011-11-20 | 2011-11-20 | 0 | ||||
(0) | TikiSheet inoperable on 3.0 beta 4 with Company Intranet Profile | mizraith | 25 |
| 2009-05-02 | 2011-10-09 | 0 | ||||
(0) | Theme and Tools for MediaWiki migration | Christophe | 8 | 40 |
| 2010-07-09 | 2011-10-03 | 0 | |||
(0) | lacking instruction on manual install page | 1 low | 8 | 8 |
| 2011-09-15 | 2011-09-15 | 0 | |||
(0) | Windows install | 7 | 8 | 56 |
| 2011-07-12 | 2011-07-12 | 0 | |||
(0) | Problem with new installation - v7 - cookies not enabled | 7 | 35 |
| 2011-07-06 | 2011-07-06 | 0 | ||||
(0) | Profile Validation | Pascal St-Jean | 8 | 40 |
| 2011-05-10 | 2011-05-10 | 0 | |||
(0) | Problem with Proxy autentication - download Profiles | Elías Cisneros | 8 | 40 |
| 2011-05-10 | 2011-05-10 | 1 xavi-10 May 11 | |||
(0) | Internal Eror (500) | waseem | 9 high | 45 | 2011-04-28 | 2011-04-28 | 1 arild-08 Oct 11 | ||||
(0) | Tiki Installer Disabled | kop | 5 | 25 |
| 2011-02-22 | 2011-02-22 | 1 Chealer9-22 Feb 11 | |||
(0) | Installation: 6.1 install fails using Mysql 5.5.9 | ravas | 9 high | 45 |
| 2011-02-18 | 2011-02-18 | 0 | |||
(0) | Crash 7.x on leaving install update mode : index error in a | Bernard TREMBLAY | 8 | 40 |
| 2011-01-17 | 2011-01-17 | 0 | |||
(0) | check_feature fields missing from tables when upgrading fom 2.1 to 5 | wonder_trout | 3 | 15 |
| 2010-06-30 | 2010-12-22 | 0 | |||
(0) | Installer quiets errors in all database queries | Philippe Cloutier | 5 | 25 | 2010-12-16 | 2010-12-16 | 1 LordVan-06 Apr 11 | ||||
(0) | Upgrade database gives a blank page | Lusserall | 2 | 10 |
| 2010-11-13 | 2010-11-13 | 1 Chealer9-08 Jun 11 | |||
(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) | Installer Failes with german language selected | KingBBQ | 25 |
| 2010-05-09 | 2010-05-09 | 0 | ||||
(0) | http_build_query | Demoalt | 1 low | 8 | 8 |
| 2010-05-03 | 2010-05-03 | 1 Demoalt-04 May 10 |
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 |