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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(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) | 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 | ||
(1) | Search index could not be updated. The site is misconfigured. Contact an administrator. | Marc Laporte | 9 | 1 difficult | 9 |
| 2012-01-19 | 2015-05-19 | 2 xavi-29 May 18 | ||
(0) | Install fails on step 5 on Dreamhost shared hosting | Steve Lyskawa | 9 | 1 difficult | 9 |
| 2014-03-03 | 2014-03-03 | 0 | ||
(0) | Tiki release script should indicate what libs were updated since last release | Marc Laporte | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| 2017-08-26 | 2017-08-26 | 0 | ||
(0) | domain redirect from *.tikiwiki.org to *.tiki.org is not working | Marc Laporte | 9 | 9 | 81 |
| 2013-06-11 | 2014-08-30 | 5 Jyhem-01 Sep 14 | ||
(0) | Bug Updating Imported DB on Upgrade | mstovenour | 10 high | 8 | 80 |
| 2014-02-23 | 2014-02-23 | 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) | 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 | |||
(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) | Profile application via wizard or Suggested Profiles quietly fails on Tiki 17+ | Xavier de Pedro | 9 | 8 | 72 |
| Jonny Bradley | 2017-06-25 | 2019-07-06 | 11 xavi-06 Jul 19 | |
(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) | File names should not have tiki | samerafach | 10 high | 7 | 70 |
| 2015-02-13 | 2015-02-18 | 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 | ||
(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) | Profiles: $profilerequest ignores user input when applying a profile | luciash d' being 🧙 | 9 | 7 | 63 |
| 2017-06-20 | 2017-06-20 | 1 luci-20 Jun 17 | ||
(0) | Fatal error on Tiki 15 to 19 upgrade | Gary Cunningham-Lee | 7 | 9 | 63 |
| 2019-02-03 | 2019-02-03 | 1 jonnybradley-09 Feb 19 | ||
(0) | OpenSourceCMS type demo to test/develop and show off profiles | Marc Laporte | 8 | 7 | 56 |
| 2008-01-29 | 2018-10-19 | 2 luci-22 Oct 18 | ||
(0) | Windows install | 7 | 8 | 56 |
| 2011-07-12 | 2011-07-12 | 0 |
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) | 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 |
Closed
Rating | Subject | Submitted by | Importance | Easy to solve? | Priority | Category | Volunteered to solve | Created | LastModif | Comments | |
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(0) | Error with composer switching branch from 16x to 17x | Bernard Sfez / Tiki Specialist | 8 | 10 easy | 80 |
| Jonny Bradley | 2017-05-01 | 2017-05-03 | 7 Bsfez-03 May 17 | |
(0) | Profile not applied properly (after 1st image inserted) when init_files defined in a file gallery | Xavier de Pedro | 6 | 5 | 30 |
| 2016-10-19 | 2016-12-01 | 0 | ||
(0) | mysql5.7: ttif.value which is not functionally dependent on columns in GROUP BY clause; this is incompatible with sql_mode=only_full_group_by | Xavi (as xavidp - admin) | 5 | 4 | 20 |
| 2016-05-05 | 2020-03-07 | 0 | ||
(0) | Site Not Available Notice after running tiki-install.php | aminor19 | 25 |
| 2015-10-08 | 2020-02-26 | 0 | ||||
(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) | Localized Installation with Admin Wizard ends in error 500 | Xavier de Pedro | 8 | 8 | 64 |
| 2013-09-15 | 2013-09-15 | 0 | ||
(0) | Update Notifier: many versions are misreporting available upgrades | Marc Laporte | 10 high | 9 | 90 |
| manivannans | 2013-08-12 | 2013-10-31 | 6 marclaporte-31 Oct 13 | |
(0) | Can't process through installer steps | amette | 10 high | 50 |
| 2015-07-10 | 2015-07-10 | 0 | |||
(0) | 11.x: composer fails behind a proxy | Xavi (as xavidp - admin) | 7 | 35 |
| 2013-05-08 | 2013-09-11 | 0 | |||
(0) | A new pref: Canonical domain (overridable per perspective) | Marc Laporte | 4 | 8 | 32 |
| 2014-08-11 | 2014-11-14 | 0 | ||
(0) | change the table definitions to support the new utf8mb4 character | waterglass | 7 | 2 | 14 |
| Louis-Philippe Huberdeau | 2013-11-06 | 2018-10-29 | 9 pascalstjean-27 Nov 13 | |
(0) | _htaccess should know which version of Tiki it is for | Marc Laporte | 9 high | 8 | 72 |
| Nelson Ko | 2009-12-25 | 2012-04-16 | 0 | |
(0) | tiki-install.php to create mysql user, mysql database and assign permissions | Marc Laporte | 1 low | 5 |
| 2008-03-11 | 2012-04-18 | 0 | |||
(0) | OPcache: add a test in tiki-check.php | Marc Laporte | 3 | 10 easy | 30 |
| manivannans | 2014-02-01 | 2014-07-30 | 0 | |
(0) | Tiki site in a box (Profile Manager) | alain_desilets | 9 high | 45 |
| Louis-Philippe Huberdeau | 2007-11-23 | 2013-06-05 | 0 | ||
(0) | upgrade all databases in a multitiki installation in a single go with console.php | Xavier de Pedro | 4 | 8 | 32 |
| 2015-08-27 | 2016-01-19 | 0 | ||
(0) | Test server compatibility / System check tool | Marc Laporte | 8 | 5 | 40 |
| amette | 2009-04-14 | 2012-09-19 | 0 | |
(0) | setup.sh enters endless loop | Jean-Marc Libs | 1 low | 8 | 8 |
| 2013-11-17 | 2013-11-25 | 3 koth-21 Nov 13 | ||
(0) | 13.x: Default feature 'Contact us' (used in featured profiles) has broken display (too narrow fields and below right column) | Xavier de Pedro | 8 | 7 | 56 |
| Gary Cunningham-Lee | 2014-07-26 | 2014-07-29 | 0 | |
(0) | 13.x: Profiles with "random header images" stopped working as expected compared to 12.x | Xavier de Pedro | 6 | 5 | 30 |
| 2014-07-13 | 2014-07-13 | 0 |