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
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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) | 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 |
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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) | 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) | 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) | Custom javascript: a future-proof way to handle | Marc Laporte | 8 | 40 |
| 2009-02-04 | 2009-04-17 | 0 | |||
(0) | add language selection list on Installer page | baijianpeng | 9 high | 45 |
| baijianpeng | 2008-09-26 | 2009-04-18 | 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) | Test for PHP5 and provide graceful error message | Marc Laporte | 9 high | 45 |
| 2008-06-03 | 2009-04-20 | 0 | |||
(0) | LiveSupport broken in 1.9.3 CVS | Fabián Rodríguez | 9 high | 45 |
| Fabián Rodríguez | 2006-04-04 | 2009-04-20 | 2 marclaporte-29 Jan 08 | ||
(0) | Problem with duplicate menus when running tiki_1.8to1.9.sql multiple times. | Marc Laporte | 6 | 30 |
| Louis-Philippe Huberdeau | 2007-08-11 | 2009-04-20 | 0 | ||
(0) | Increase size of article title from 80 to 255 char | Marc Laporte | 7 | 35 |
| Luis Henrique Fagundes | 2006-01-17 | 2009-05-07 | 0 | ||
(0) | templates_c is not included in .zip file | Marc Laporte | 9 high | 45 |
| 2008-11-12 | 2009-05-07 | 0 | |||
(0) | Error installing into UTF-8 MySQL database | ylavi | 3 | 15 |
| Kissaki | 2009-06-09 | 2009-07-31 | 1 Kissaki-29 Jul 09 | ||
(0) | Suggested shell backup procedure using existing scripts | Marc Laporte | 3 | 15 |
| 2006-01-17 | 2009-08-06 | 0 | |||
(0) | Installer fails against Oracle 10 DB | alexkmoch | 25 |
| 2008-10-06 | 2009-08-08 | 1 allgrand33-23 Dec 08 | ||||
(0) | Tiki does not install clean on Oracle | 3 | 15 |
| 2005-12-22 | 2009-08-08 | 4 Humphrey-01 Jul 08 | ||||
(0) | Installation on PostgreSQL: syntax error creating 'tiki_categorized_objects' | agnewtj | 6 | 30 |
| 2007-09-19 | 2009-08-08 | 0 | |||
(0) | Installation with SQLite | vilam | 1 low | 5 |
| 2008-03-26 | 2009-08-08 | 0 | |||
(0) | More graceful error message when database is unavailable or crashed | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| 2007-01-05 | 2009-08-08 | 0 | |||
(0) | installation issues with v2.0 and MSSQL backend | GrayMatter | 7 | 35 |
| 2008-09-08 | 2009-08-08 | 1 ragnvald-24 Sep 08 | |||
(0) | tiki-install.php (= upgrade) fails with multitiki on subdirectories | Xavier de Pedro | 6 | 30 |
| 2008-11-11 | 2009-09-24 | 0 | |||
(0) | multitiki cannot be installed with tiki-install.php in trunk | Xavier de Pedro | 25 |
| 2008-11-29 | 2009-09-24 | 0 |