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) | .phar support is needed for Composer | Marc Laporte | 3 | 10 easy | 30 |
| Frank Guthausen | 2013-11-21 | 2013-11-24 | 1 koth-24 Nov 13 | |
(0) | "Server Fitness" (tiki-check.php) Never Opens | John Morris | 5 | 25 |
| 2018-05-20 | 2018-06-08 | 8 jmorris-16 May 19 | |||
(0) | 13.1 and 14.0 installer keeps asking for validating my db credentials | Gergely | 7 | 6 | 42 |
| 2014-12-23 | 2015-09-21 | 5 benoitg-12 Jul 23 | ||
(0) | 13.x next.tiki.org -> Database Version Problem | Marc Laporte | 10 high | 50 |
| 2014-07-14 | 2014-07-14 | 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) | 18.x svn: Data too long for column 'log' at row 1 | Xavier de Pedro | 6 | 4 | 24 |
| 2018-09-23 | 2023-02-05 | 1 chibaguy-15 Oct 18 | ||
(0) | 403 Error on installaition | Loïc Yabili | 25 |
| 2019-06-27 | 2019-06-27 | 0 | ||||
(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 | ||
(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 | ||
(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) | 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) | Admins /mods failed | othman | 1 low | 5 |
| 2008-08-04 | 2009-04-28 | 1 othman-04 Aug 08 | |||
(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 | |||
(1) | after upgrade from 9.x to 12.x wiki pages with html code are reopened wrongly with wysiywg editor and no way to switch to normal through UI | Xavier de Pedro | 7 | 4 | 28 |
| 2014-04-24 | 2014-04-24 | 0 | ||
(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 | ||
(0) | allow_comments or comments from a profile blog definition stopped working | Xavier de Pedro | 6 | 7 | 42 |
| 2014-02-26 | 2014-02-26 | 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) | 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) | 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) | Bug Updating Imported DB on Upgrade | mstovenour | 10 high | 8 | 80 |
| 2014-02-23 | 2014-02-23 | 0 |
Pending
Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
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(0) | Make Tiki more robust to open_basedir issues | Marc Laporte | 7 | 35 |
| 2007-11-23 | 2007-11-27 | 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) | 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) | 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) | 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) | SMTP Configuration from inside Admin Interface | morrighu | 8 | 40 |
| 2008-04-20 | 2009-04-11 | 7 sbhas2k-01 Aug 09 | |||
(0) | Unknown column 'tweetId' in 'tiki_shoutbox' | Lusserall | 7 | 35 |
| 2011-10-27 | 2012-05-02 | 3 Chealer9-04 May 12 | |||
(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) | 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) | sh setup.sh does not change directory permissions | Lusserall | 5 | 5 | 25 |
| 2012-10-07 | 2014-05-12 | 1 fmg-12 May 14 | ||
(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 | |
(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) | (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) | 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) | 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 |
Closed
Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
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(0) | SQL-Script for PostgreSQL failed | Swissbite | 7 | 35 |
| Kissaki | 2009-05-19 | 2010-02-10 | 2 Kissaki-08 Aug 09 | ||
(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-mods_admin.php is broken. | Gary | 8 | 40 |
| 2007-01-20 | 2008-01-31 | 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) | When upgrading old version of TikiWiki to 7.2, admin login no longer has admin permissions | Marc Laporte | 7 | 35 | 2011-10-11 | 2012-04-16 | 1 xavi-12 Oct 11 | ||||
(0) | templates_c should be part of the .zip (like it was in 1.9.x and before) | Marc Laporte | 9 high | 45 |
| 2009-04-04 | 2009-04-17 | 0 | |||
(0) | Upgrading to 1.10 from 1.9 version prior to 1.9.8 requires tiki_1.8to1.9.sql | Nelson Ko | 6 | 30 | 2008-03-04 | 2010-01-15 | 0 | ||||
(0) | db/tiki.sql has typo on line 1, bad comment formatting | sparr | 3 | 15 |
| 2010-10-18 | 2010-12-15 | 1 marclaporte-15 Dec 10 | |||
(0) | Installation to Document Root Issues | 25 |
| 2006-09-10 | 2007-07-11 | 1 marclaporte-11 Sep 06 | |||||
(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) | 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) | 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) | 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) | Suggested htaccess file | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| Luis Henrique Fagundes | 2006-01-17 | 2010-01-15 | 1 artbody-19 May 06 | ||
(0) | templates_c is not included in .zip file | Marc Laporte | 9 high | 45 |
| 2008-11-12 | 2009-05-07 | 0 | |||
(0) | Installer fails against Oracle 10 DB | alexkmoch | 25 |
| 2008-10-06 | 2009-08-08 | 1 allgrand33-23 Dec 08 | ||||
(0) | robots.txt should exclude ALL print-friendly pages | John Hadjisky | 5 | 25 |
| Luis Henrique Fagundes | 2005-12-21 | 2009-04-15 | 2 Beestje-15 Apr 09 | ||
(0) | Directories missing in 2.0 installer | wondertrout | 6 | 30 |
| 2008-09-24 | 2009-10-15 | 0 | |||
(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) | 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 |