[pmwiki-users] help: setting up my wiki..

Ben Wilson dausha at gmail.com
Thu Mar 29 15:46:44 CDT 2007


On 3/29/07, William Hurford <hhurford at llamazone.com> wrote:
> Is there an existing recipe I can follow, to set up the wiki on my web-site?
[...]
> Question: - - - - -
> How do I set up userid/password, for the system, and for each user, so that
> the history for each page identifies who added what and when? And..
> how/when do they identify themselves ( login?) when they want to add
> comments to a page, or create a new page?

The following link documents how to establish per-user access, which
subsequently does all else that you require.

http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki.AuthUser

> - - - - - - -
>
> There is certainly no lack of documentation, and the system seems to be
> absolutely marvelous.. however, I have never used a wiki before, let alone
> install one, let alone configure one, let alone administer one. So I am
> finding too much documentation, and not the simple steps I need..

The following link should fuel your understanding of PmWiki, which is
at the same time one of the easiest and more difficult wikis to set
up. Easiest in that shell access and a few commands are all you need
to establish a fully-functional wiki web site. One of the more
difficult in that you can customize it to almost anything you need.
The DocumentationIndex does a decent job of helping you surmount the
learning curve.

http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/DocumentationIndex

> I have the basic install working on my localhost development system, and
> want now to install the configuration described above on my host server. Is
> there a recipe you can offer?

To put on a web server, just shell to the server, wget the compressed
file (or FTP it from your local machine), and uncompress it in your
web space. When you try to browse the page (e.g.
http://www.example.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php), it will inform you of what
else is required.

-- 
Ben Wilson
"Words are the only thing which will last forever" Churchill



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