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) | 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) | 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) | 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) | 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 | ||
| (2) | setup.sh: Hardcoded "php" entries | aexoxea | 3 | 9 | 27 |
| 2017-10-01 | 2018-04-30 | 1 marclaporte-03 Oct 17 | ||
| (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) | 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) | 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) | 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) | Make Unified Index optional | Marc Laporte | 10 high | 8 | 80 |
| Nelson Ko | 2013-06-09 | 2013-11-04 | 3 marclaporte-22 Nov 13 |
Closed
| Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (0) | Unable to enter a fresh tiki install | Karen Stingel | 9 high | 3 | 27 |
| 2013-01-25 | 2013-01-25 | 1 kstingel-25 Jan 13 | ||
| (0) | Localized Installation with Admin Wizard ends in error 500 | Xavier de Pedro | 8 | 8 | 64 |
| 2013-09-15 | 2013-09-15 | 0 | ||
| (0) | DefaultSettingsChanges in 1.10 | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| 2005-04-19 | 2010-01-15 | 1 toggg-08 Jul 05 | |||
| (0) | Wiki Ratings doesn't activate upgrading from 1.8.5 | xia | 5 | 25 |
| 2005-05-02 | 2021-09-23 | 1 Bsfez-23 Sep 21 | |||
| (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) | Tiki does not install clean on Oracle | 3 | 15 |
| 2005-12-22 | 2009-08-08 | 4 Humphrey-01 Jul 08 | ||||
| (0) | Suggested shell backup procedure using existing scripts | Marc Laporte | 3 | 15 |
| 2006-01-17 | 2009-08-06 | 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) | 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) | Make tiki-mods.php report more detailed error | Fabián Rodríguez | 5 | 25 |
| 2006-04-19 | 2021-10-11 | 2 Bsfez-11 Oct 21 | |||
| (0) | Installation to Document Root Issues | 25 |
| 2006-09-10 | 2007-07-11 | 1 marclaporte-11 Sep 06 | |||||
| (0) | tikiwiki calls non-existent pear library without checking that library is installed | Jean-Marc Libs | 25 |
| 2006-11-16 | 2021-10-13 | 2 Bsfez-13 Oct 21 | ||||
| (0) | More graceful error message when database is unavailable or crashed | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| 2007-01-05 | 2009-08-08 | 0 | |||
| (0) | tiki-mods_admin.php is broken. | Gary | 8 | 40 |
| 2007-01-20 | 2008-01-31 | 0 | |||
| (0) | USB key version of Tiki | Marc Laporte | 4 | 20 |
| 2007-07-11 | 2011-04-06 | 0 | |||
| (0) | MediaWiki import script | Marc Laporte | 7 | 35 |
| 2007-07-16 | 2010-01-15 | 8 marclaporte-15 Jan 10 | |||
| (0) | database mysql 3.23.58 install problems | chun | 9 high | 45 |
| 2007-07-29 | 2008-01-31 | 1 dthacker-24 Dec 07 | |||
| (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) | output handler 'ob_gzhandler' cannot be used after 'URL-Rewriter' in tiki-setup.php on line 1890 | Marc Laporte | 5 | 25 |
| 2007-08-15 | 2020-02-26 | 1 drsassafras-26 Feb 20 |
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