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
Why not using the nice Bitweaver Installer as a base or guide for the Tiki installer?
http://www.bitweaver.org/photos/gallery/9/32 (16 screenshots here showing the whole process) . Xavi
- 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
No image specified. One of the following parameters must be set: fileId, randomGalleryId, fgalId, attId, id, or src.
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) | TikiSheet inoperable on 3.0 beta 4 with Company Intranet Profile | mizraith | 25 |
| 2009-05-02 | 2011-10-09 | 0 | ||||
| (0) | Installer Failes with german language selected | KingBBQ | 25 |
| 2010-05-09 | 2010-05-09 | 0 | ||||
| (0) | Update notification: Version 11.2 is still supported. However, a major upgrade to 9.0 is available | Marc Laporte | 25 |
| 2014-06-04 | 2014-06-04 | 0 | ||||
| (0) | YAML: one line preference containing operand characters results in PHP fatal error when applying profile | luciash d' being 🧙 | 25 |
| 2016-10-19 | 2016-10-19 | 0 | ||||
| (0) | Profiles exporter exports only those custom modules which are assigned to a module zone | luciash d' being 🧙 | 25 |
| 2016-10-28 | 2017-09-06 | 0 | ||||
| (0) | setup.sh not utilizing found PHP version | drsassafras | 25 |
| 2018-10-09 | 2018-10-09 | 0 | ||||
| (0) | 403 Error on installaition | Loïc Yabili | 25 |
| 2019-06-27 | 2019-06-27 | 0 | ||||
| (0) | buttons to enter tiki with or without locking it overlap | Xavier de Pedro | 1 low | 10 easy | 10 |
| Benoit Roy | 2019-07-08 | 2019-11-25 | 4 benoit.roy-26 Nov 19 | |
| (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) | Admins /mods failed | othman | 1 low | 5 |
| 2008-08-04 | 2009-04-28 | 1 othman-04 Aug 08 | |||
| (0) | http_build_query | Demoalt | 1 low | 8 | 8 |
| 2010-05-03 | 2010-05-03 | 1 Demoalt-04 May 10 | ||
| (0) | lacking instruction on manual install page | 1 low | 8 | 8 |
| 2011-09-15 | 2011-09-15 | 0 | |||
| (1) | Error in upgrade script (function upgrade_20120429_fix_collation_tiki) | samandiriel | 10 high | 10 easy | 99 |
| 2014-01-17 | 2014-01-17 | 0 | ||
| (0) | Bug Updating Imported DB on Upgrade | mstovenour | 10 high | 8 | 80 |
| 2014-02-23 | 2014-02-23 | 0 | ||
| (0) | 13.x next.tiki.org -> Database Version Problem | Marc Laporte | 10 high | 50 |
| 2014-07-14 | 2014-07-14 | 0 | |||
| (0) | The version lifecycle is not being respected | Marc Laporte | 10 high | 10 easy | 99 |
| 2014-10-13 | 2022-08-11 | 1 hman-25 Mar 22 | ||
| (0) | File names should not have tiki | samerafach | 10 high | 7 | 70 |
| 2015-02-13 | 2015-02-18 | 0 | ||
| (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) | 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 |
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) | 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) | 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) | 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) | 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 |
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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) | 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) | Some DB tables are not created on MySQL 5.5 and above during install | hfalk | 6 | 30 |
| Philippe Cloutier | 2008-12-10 | 2011-07-09 | 3 neocles-23 May 11 | ||
| (0) | End of Installation Pressing Continue to Site Produces "Tiki is not properly set up:" message | butterflyvista | 9 high | 45 |
| Philippe Cloutier | 2010-05-08 | 2010-05-10 | 0 | ||
| (0) | templates_c is not included in .zip file | Marc Laporte | 9 high | 45 |
| 2008-11-12 | 2009-05-07 | 0 | |||
| (0) | Installation on PostgreSQL: syntax error creating 'tiki_categorized_objects' | agnewtj | 6 | 30 |
| 2007-09-19 | 2009-08-08 | 0 | |||
| (0) | Installer fails against Oracle 10 DB | alexkmoch | 25 |
| 2008-10-06 | 2009-08-08 | 1 allgrand33-23 Dec 08 | ||||
| (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) | More graceful error message when database is unavailable or crashed | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| 2007-01-05 | 2009-08-08 | 0 | |||
| (0) | Missing fulltext index for trackers after upgrade 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5 | fumphco | 1 low | 5 |
| fumphco | 2006-09-11 | 2009-04-20 | 1 marclaporte-12 Jun 07 | ||
| (0) | Directories missing in 2.0 installer | wondertrout | 6 | 30 |
| 2008-09-24 | 2009-10-15 | 0 | |||
| (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) | database mysql 3.23.58 install problems | chun | 9 high | 45 |
| 2007-07-29 | 2008-01-31 | 1 dthacker-24 Dec 07 | |||
| (0) | Upgrading makes impossible to access the wiki (see http://dev.tikiwiki.org/bug2865) | 8 | 40 |
| 2009-11-18 | 2009-12-09 | 2 Trincio-09 Dec 09 | ||||
| (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) | tiki-login.php generates 404 error | asphaltjesus | 1 low | 5 |
| 2008-08-20 | 2009-10-15 | 1 ricks99-22 Aug 08 | |||
| (0) | USB key version of Tiki | Marc Laporte | 4 | 20 |
| 2007-07-11 | 2011-04-06 | 0 | |||
| (0) | Can not install on PostgreSQL | franck.lemonnier | 25 |
| 2009-08-21 | 2009-10-15 | 1 postpersonality-16 Sep 09 | ||||
| (0) | Installer fails when upgrading a 1.9 tiki | Jonny Bradley | 8 | 40 |
| Louis-Philippe Huberdeau | 2008-08-02 | 2008-08-05 | 0 | ||
| (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 | |||
| (0) | Error installing into UTF-8 MySQL database | ylavi | 3 | 15 |
| Kissaki | 2009-06-09 | 2009-07-31 | 1 Kissaki-29 Jul 09 |
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