[pmwiki-users] Standalone pmwiki??

Dominique Faure dominique.faure.1 at free.fr
Mon Jul 25 17:54:39 CDT 2005


At Monday, July 25, 2005 4:27 AM [GMT+1=CET], Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:44:28PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>> My idea for a standalone PmWiki is to write a very simple
>> HTTP server in PHP; it will simply accept incoming connections,
>> set the appropriate environment variables, and then call the
>> pmwiki.php script or return the appropriate pub/upload file.
>> This way one only needs a PHP binary to run PmWiki if a
>> standard webserver isn't available.
>
> Actually, I wasn't feeling like doing much else this weekend
> so I went ahead and implemented a "standalone system" for PmWiki,
> now available at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Standalone.
> It's primarily targeted at Microsoft Windows hosts at the moment,
> although with a minor configuration change it can run within Unix
> environments.
>
> This is definitely a first-shot at this, and I'm sure we'll come
> up with many improvements as well as find a few bugs here and there.
> However, it's clean enough that it ought to be relatively easy to
> install PmWiki to run from a USB flash disk or a CD-ROM device
> (read-only, of course).
>

At http://dominique.faure.1.free.fr/index.php5/Main/WebOnKey, you'll find my 
way to have a *real* apache on Windows web server running from an USB flash 
disk...

Dominique






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