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 Installer Disabled | kop | 5 | 25 |
| 2011-02-22 | 2011-02-22 | 1 Chealer9-22 Feb 11 | |||
(0) | Internal Eror (500) | waseem | 9 high | 45 | 2011-04-28 | 2011-04-28 | 1 arild-08 Oct 11 | ||||
(0) | Problem with Proxy autentication - download Profiles | Elías Cisneros | 8 | 40 |
| 2011-05-10 | 2011-05-10 | 1 xavi-10 May 11 | |||
(0) | Profile Validation | Pascal St-Jean | 8 | 40 |
| 2011-05-10 | 2011-05-10 | 0 | |||
(0) | Problem with new installation - v7 - cookies not enabled | 7 | 35 |
| 2011-07-06 | 2011-07-06 | 0 | ||||
(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 | |||
(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) | 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) | 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) | Tiki installer with Softaculous on webhostingpad.com: failure of regular click to apply featured profile | Marc Laporte | 8 | 40 |
| 2012-01-12 | 2012-01-12 | 0 | |||
(1) | Search index could not be updated. The site is misconfigured. Contact an administrator. | Marc Laporte | 9 | 1 difficult | 9 |
| 2012-01-19 | 2015-05-19 | 2 xavi-29 May 18 | ||
(0) | 6.7 LTS: Possible security threat: Logging into Wiki A as admin may raise your privilege level in Wiki B | hman | 7 | 6 | 42 |
| 2012-05-21 | 2012-06-01 | 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) | PHP Notice: Undefined index: | Lusserall | 4 | 7 | 28 |
| manivannans | 2012-10-07 | 2013-10-28 | 0 | |
(0) | PHP Safe Mode Fix | alien | 5 | 10 easy | 50 |
| 2012-10-22 | 2013-10-28 | 1 alien-22 Oct 12 | ||
(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 | ||
(0) | Cron option for when it's not possible to have a real cron job (like Poormanscron) | Marc Laporte | 7 | 5 | 35 |
| 2013-09-08 | 2013-10-28 | 1 xavidp-09 Sep 13 | ||
(0) | Connect & Redactor: use a pref attribute instead of maintaining lists of prefs | Marc Laporte | 6 | 4 | 24 |
| 2013-11-03 | 2013-11-13 | 1 koth-11 Nov 13 | ||
(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 |
Pending
Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
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(0) | Multitiki customizations broken | Gary | 7 | 35 |
| Gary | 2005-04-28 | 2021-09-23 | 2 chibaguy-23 Sep 21 | ||
(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) | 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) | 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) | SMTP Configuration from inside Admin Interface | morrighu | 8 | 40 |
| 2008-04-20 | 2009-04-11 | 7 sbhas2k-01 Aug 09 | |||
(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) | 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 | |||
(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) | 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) | 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 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 |
Closed
Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
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(0) | Admin links gone....can't access admin | jcyrisse | 8 | 40 |
| jcyrisse | 2005-05-10 | 2005-05-10 | 0 | ||
(0) | tiki-install.php spits out many "variable undefined" errors | Marc Laporte | 7 | 35 |
| 2005-04-19 | 2005-10-11 | 1 amette-30 Sep 05 | |||
(0) | tiki-install.php disables itself but gives error about not being able to do so | amette | 8 | 40 |
| 2005-10-31 | 2005-10-31 | 0 | |||
(0) | fckeditor missing while updating previous 1.10tw | yoni | 7 | 35 |
| nyloth | 2007-05-28 | 2007-05-28 | 1 xavi-29 May 07 | ||
(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) | 1.9.1 to 1.9.3.1 upgrade pb on tiki_score table | pwendling | 5 | 25 |
| 2006-05-05 | 2007-06-03 | 0 | |||
(0) | tiki_install.php does not check php parameter memory_limit properly | dthacker | 8 | 40 |
| bertrand Gugger | 2006-08-31 | 2007-06-04 | 0 | ||
(0) | Installation to Document Root Issues | 25 |
| 2006-09-10 | 2007-07-11 | 1 marclaporte-11 Sep 06 | |||||
(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) | 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) | database mysql 3.23.58 install problems | chun | 9 high | 45 |
| 2007-07-29 | 2008-01-31 | 1 dthacker-24 Dec 07 | |||
(0) | tiki-mods_admin.php is broken. | Gary | 8 | 40 |
| 2007-01-20 | 2008-01-31 | 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) | Native multi-site/multi-domain handling | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| 2008-02-05 | 2008-02-26 | 0 | |||
(0) | Forum migration script | Marc Laporte | 3 | 15 |
| Mike | 2007-01-05 | 2008-03-20 | 0 | ||
(0) | Installer fails when upgrading a 1.9 tiki | Jonny Bradley | 8 | 40 |
| Louis-Philippe Huberdeau | 2008-08-02 | 2008-08-05 | 0 | ||
(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) | tikiwiki only can install with default database | othman | 9 high | 45 |
| 2008-08-15 | 2008-09-03 | 2 othman-16 Aug 08 | |||
(0) | Test if the db upgrade script has been run and put a note in tiki-admin.php | Marc Laporte | 8 | 40 |
| 2007-11-26 | 2009-04-12 | 1 redflo-01 Dec 07 | |||
(0) | Robots.txt Disallow entries now must have leading slash | John Hadjisky | 5 | 25 |
| 2005-12-21 | 2009-04-14 | 1 fmathias-30 Jan 06 |