Purpose: A cookbook approach to creating a Wiki of your own.
dlb: has anyone been successful in running the new (07-Nov-2000)VFS wikit via CGI ? -- if not, are there still older versions available ? I've been having a hell of a time getting wikit running as a cgi process , is there someone I can direct questions to ??
LV: Did you check the link above about Wikits and CGI? Did you put up a note on the Gripes about Wikit, or Wikit Problems, pages?
VPT: 17th Feb '02 - the current wikit.tkd runs as a cgi process (at least on Linux). I put the tclkit in /usr/bin since that was in the PATH in apache's environment (as displayed by the printenv cgi-bin script). I then put the wikit.tkd in the cgi-bin directory and set the permissions to rwx for the user apache runs as (I'm a lttle uncomfortable with having the write permission set but at least it only has the permissions of the apache user). Editing a page with Mozilla 0.9.8 fails with,
[error] (26)Text file busy: exec of /var/www/cgi-bin/wikit.tkd failed
whilst editing with Netscape Communicator works. This failure mode has been reported before see Running wikit as a CGI script. Actually the edit succeeds although the browser reports an error. In any case it only fails if you are using Mozilla local to the server.
MDD: What would be really nice would be if someone would create a Starkit that combines tclhttpd and the wikit into one turnkey wiki server. Performance should be better, since you wouldn't have to use CGI.
11apr03 jcw - Yes, that would be cool, but it may need some work (either to make it properly keep state with repeated requests, or to make it work in a slave interp which gets re-inited on each access). Meanwhile, as of a month or so, code was added to wikit so it has its own simple-minded http server, courtesy of PS. I just looked, and see that for some reason it comes up in read-only mode, no idea why. Anyway, the command to make it work is:
./wikit.kit -httpd 8080
Or on Windows, I suppose you could do:
tclkitsh wikit.kit -httpd 8080
Then you can access it as http://my.machine.name:8080/