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
Plugin Image
No image specified. One of the following parameters must be set: fileId, randomGalleryId, fgalId, attId 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) | Upgrade database gives a blank page | Lusserall | 2 | 10 |
| 2010-11-13 | 2010-11-13 | 1 Chealer9-08 Jun 11 | |||
| (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) | Update, Database; Error on local MAMP updating a previous Tiki25 database | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| 2023-07-16 | 2023-07-16 | 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) | Installation script; The process locked itself and using a different browser with incognito window is required | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 3 | 5 | 15 |
| 2022-11-12 | 2023-07-12 | 5 benoitg-12 Jul 23 | ||
| (0) | Installation, Setup; setup.sh text should be updated with git ways (not SVN) | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 2 | 9 | 18 |
| 2023-02-12 | 2023-02-12 | 0 | ||
| (0) | keep user information as the user selected on tw.o | Xavier de Pedro | 4 | 20 |
| 2009-07-06 | 2009-07-06 | 0 | |||
| (0) | During Installation Progress Bar runs runs twice | Yves Kipondo | 4 | 5 | 20 |
| 2019-06-28 | 2019-06-28 | 0 | ||
| (0) | Some people on windows can't figure out how to install composer | Jean-Marc Libs | 4 | 20 |
| 2019-11-06 | 2019-11-06 | 0 | |||
| (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) | Installer timeout issue | Nelson Ko | 6 | 4 | 24 |
| 2014-05-19 | 2014-05-20 | 4 koth-02 Jul 14 | ||
| (0) | tiki.org 13x : Illegal mix of collations (utf8_general_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_unicode_ci,IMPLICIT) for operation '=' | Marc Laporte | 8 | 3 | 24 |
| 2014-07-24 | 2014-08-14 | 0 | ||
| (0) | sender_email can't be set as $profilerequest:sender_email$YourEmail@example.com$ | Xavier de Pedro | 3 | 8 | 24 |
| 2016-10-14 | 2017-01-09 | 1 luci-19 Oct 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) | TikiSheet inoperable on 3.0 beta 4 with Company Intranet Profile | mizraith | 25 |
| 2009-05-02 | 2011-10-09 | 0 | ||||
| (0) | Make it possible to have a message only visible on first run (ex.: u: admin p: admin) | 5 | 25 |
| 2009-05-18 | 2009-05-18 | 0 | ||||
| (0) | Installer Failes with german language selected | KingBBQ | 25 |
| 2010-05-09 | 2010-05-09 | 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) | Tiki Installer Disabled | kop | 5 | 25 |
| 2011-02-22 | 2011-02-22 | 1 Chealer9-22 Feb 11 | |||
| (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 |
Pending
| Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (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) | 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) | 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) | 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) | Getting Things Done (GTD) profile | Marc Laporte | 25 |
| 2008-03-09 | 2018-06-28 | 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) | Make sure Tiki is offered by all server control panels | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| Marc Laporte | 2006-01-17 | 2021-10-05 | 0 | ||
| (0) | Make Tiki more robust to open_basedir issues | Marc Laporte | 7 | 35 |
| 2007-11-23 | 2007-11-27 | 0 | |||
| (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) | Multitiki customizations broken | Gary | 7 | 35 |
| Gary | 2005-04-28 | 2021-09-23 | 2 chibaguy-23 Sep 21 | ||
| (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 | ||
| (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) | 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 | ||
| (2) | setup.sh: Hardcoded "php" entries | aexoxea | 3 | 9 | 27 |
| 2017-10-01 | 2018-04-30 | 1 marclaporte-03 Oct 17 | ||
| (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) | SMTP Configuration from inside Admin Interface | morrighu | 8 | 40 |
| 2008-04-20 | 2009-04-11 | 7 sbhas2k-01 Aug 09 | |||
| (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) | Unknown column 'tweetId' in 'tiki_shoutbox' | Lusserall | 7 | 35 |
| 2011-10-27 | 2012-05-02 | 3 Chealer9-04 May 12 |
Closed
| Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (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) | Incorrect URLs on IIS installs in document root | thebookdoc | 9 high | 45 |
| Philippe Cloutier | 2009-01-06 | 2010-05-15 | 6 AJStevens-16 Dec 09 | ||
| (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) | Installation error - cannot create database "tiki_profile_symbols" | n2fisher | 25 |
| 2008-12-14 | 2009-10-15 | 2 Chealer9-15 Oct 09 | ||||
| (0) | missing tiki_rss_items and unable to log | trois14 | 9 high | 45 |
| 2010-05-15 | 2010-05-16 | 1 trois14-16 May 10 | |||
| (0) | new tikitrunk install (Nov29, 2008) shows sql errors on mysql 5.0.51a | Xavier de Pedro | 6 | 30 |
| 2008-11-29 | 2010-02-01 | 1 Chealer9-31 Jan 10 | |||
| (0) | Remove www automatically | Marc Laporte | 7 | 35 |
| 2010-03-30 | 2010-04-05 | 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) | 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) | Tiki Installer Security Precaution on Windows installing in document root | sipiptel | 8 | 40 |
| Philippe Cloutier | 2010-01-30 | 2010-07-09 | 6 Chealer9-09 Mar 10 | ||
| (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) | Allow a user role or group to automatically generate a personal page, an image gallery, a weblog a | dweade | 9 high | 45 |
| Louis-Philippe Huberdeau | 2008-11-06 | 2010-02-06 | 2 marclaporte-06 Feb 10 | ||
| (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) | Tiki does not install clean on Oracle | 3 | 15 |
| 2005-12-22 | 2009-08-08 | 4 Humphrey-01 Jul 08 | ||||
| (0) | Incorrect base path detected when installing on IIS (Directory does not exist errors) | wondertrout | 6 | 30 |
| Philippe Cloutier | 2008-09-25 | 2011-09-23 | 1 heer2351-02 Apr 09 | ||
| (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) | can't install tiki 4.0, whereas tiki 3.3 ok with no problem. what's missing at the server side? | 9 high | 45 |
| 2009-11-20 | 2009-11-20 | 1 luci-03 Dec 09 | ||||
| (0) | installation issues with v2.0 and MSSQL backend | GrayMatter | 7 | 35 |
| 2008-09-08 | 2009-08-08 | 1 ragnvald-24 Sep 08 | |||
| (0) | multitiki in subdirs broken in tiki3 proposed branch due to deleting templates_c at install time | Xavier de Pedro | 8 | 40 |
| 2009-09-08 | 2009-10-15 | 2 xavi-15 Oct 09 | |||
| (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 |
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