These instructions detail how to install DokuWiki on our Debian GNU/Linux system. We're currently running the 2010-11-07 version of DokuWiki.
Download and unpack the program:
export VERSION=2005-09-22 cd /home/web/wiki.sluug.org/ wget http://www.splitbrain.org/_media/projects/dokuwiki/dokuwiki-$VERSION.tgz tar xfz dokuwiki-$VERSION.tgz rm dokuwiki-$VERSION.tgz rm -f public ln -s dokuwiki-$VERSION public cd public touch data/changes.log chown -R www-data:www-data * .ht*
Edit the .htaccess file. Make it look like this:
## We don't need to allow index files. Options -Indexes ## Don't allow access to the .htaccess file. <Files ~ "^\.ht"> Order allow,deny Deny from all Satisfy All </Files> ## Enable nice-looking URLs. RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^lib/ - [L] RewriteRule ^_media/(.*) lib/exe/fetch.php?media=$1 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^_detail/(.*) lib/exe/detail.php?media=$1 [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^$ doku.php?id=home [QSA,L] RewriteRule (.*) doku.php?id=$1 [QSA,L]
Copy the example configuration file to use as a base:
cp conf/local.php.dist conf/local.php
Edit the conf/local.php
file to look like this (make sure it doesn't have any blank lines outside the PHP tags):
<?php $conf['title'] = 'SLUUG Wiki'; $conf['start'] = 'home'; // Name of the default page. $conf['superuser'] = 'admin'; // Set the admin user. $conf['userewrite'] = 1; // We're using mod_rewrite to make pretty URLs. $conf['useslash'] = 1; // Use slashes to separate namespaces, instead of colons. $conf['target']['interwiki'] = ''; // Don't pop up a new window for Interwiki links. $conf['target']['extern'] = ''; // Don't pop up a new window for external links. $conf['breadcrumbs'] = 1; // Only show 1 previous page. $conf['htmlok'] = 1; // Allow editing of raw HTML tags. $conf['usewordblock'] = 0; // Don't block posts using "banned" words. $conf['mailguard'] = 'visible'; // Use "name [at] domain [dot] com" format to display email addresses. $conf['typography'] = 0; // Don't convert quotes to fancy version. $conf['license'] = 'cc-by-sa'; // License of all content. See conf/license.php and conf/license.local.php for choices. $conf['showuseras'] = 'username'; // Show users' full names, no email addresses or login names. #$conf['useacl'] = 1; // TODO: Have to create users (manually). #$conf['authtype'] = 'plain'; // User IDs are stored in a flat file. #$conf['openregister'] = 1; // Users may register themselves. #$conf['defaultgroup'] = 'user'; // Users registering themselves belong to this group.
Deactivate the automatic conversion of certain character combinations into different symbols since this destroys the ability to cut/paste commands and sample configuration data from the documentation. For example, DokuWiki was converting –inet=1
into –inet=
which resulted in a single dash when cut/pasted from the browser to another window, with the copied command failing.
mv conf/entities.conf conf/entities.conf.out
Create a place to store our backup files, and make sure it's not readable by anyone:
mkdir -p /var/backups/web chmod -R 600 /var/backups/web
Create the backup script in /etc/cron.daily/backup-dokuwiki
:
#!/bin/sh DATE=`date +'%Y%m%d'` BACKUPDIR=/var/backups/web EXCLUDE='data/cache/*' INCLUDE='data/ conf/' WIKIDIR=/home/web/wiki.sluug.org/public tar cfz $BACKUPDIR/wikidata-$DATE.tgz -C $WIKIDIR --exclude="$EXCLUDE" $INCLUDE
Make the script executable:
chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/backup-dokuwiki
Run the script to test that it works, and saves a file in /var/backups/web/
. Run tar tfz
on the resulting backup file to make sure it contains files in the data
and conf
directories.
TODO: Copy the files in /var/backups
off the server.
Browse to the wiki and make sure it shows up.
Try to edit a page. Make sure it saves OK.
Make sure history feature ("Old revisions") works.
Here are the steps taken to upgrade to version 2010-11-07.
First, read the changes made in the new release. Make sure you follow any directions specific to the new release.
Then we create a full backup of the existing site.
cd /home/web/wiki.sluug.org export OLD_VERSION=2009-12-25 sudo tar cfz /var/backups/web/wiki.sluug.org.BACKUP-`date +%Y%m%d`.tgz dokuwiki-$OLD_VERSION
Download and unpack the new version.
cd /home/web/wiki.sluug.org export VERSION=2010-11-07 wget http://www.splitbrain.org/_media/projects/dokuwiki/dokuwiki-$VERSION.tgz tar xfz dokuwiki-$VERSION.tgz rm dokuwiki-$VERSION.tgz
Read through dokuwiki-$VERSION/.htaccess.dist
to look for anything new. Make any necessary changes.
diff -u dokuwiki-$OLD_VERSION/.htaccess dokuwiki-$VERSION/.htaccess.dist | less
Read through the dokuwiki-$VERSION/conf/dokuwiki.php
file to look for any new config options. Make any necessary changes to conf/local.php
in the OLD directory.
diff -u dokuwiki-$OLD_VERSION/conf/dokuwiki.php dokuwiki-$VERSION/conf/dokuwiki.php | less
Double-check to see if there are any patches in the old version of DokuWiki. If so, you'll probably have to manually apply the patches to the new version. (Check to ensure they're still needed first though.)
find dokuwiki-$OLD_VERSION -name '*.ORIG*'
Delete the old cache and index, since they can be regenerated, and the formats may have changed between versions. We can also use the new help pages (in the wiki namespace), so we can delete them from the old site.
sudo rm dokuwiki-$OLD_VERSION/data/cache/* -rf sudo rm dokuwiki-$OLD_VERSION/data/index/* -rf sudo rm dokuwiki-$OLD_VERSION/data/pages/wiki -rf
Copy all the configuration info and data over from the old site to the new site.
cp -f dokuwiki-$OLD_VERSION/conf/{*local.php,acl.auth.php,users.auth.php} dokuwiki-$VERSION/conf/ cp -f dokuwiki-$OLD_VERSION/.htaccess dokuwiki-$VERSION/ cp -a dokuwiki-$OLD_VERSION/data/* dokuwiki-$VERSION/data/
Get rid of the files that we don't need.
mv dokuwiki-$VERSION/conf/entities.conf dokuwiki-$VERSION/conf/entities.conf.dist rm dokuwiki-$VERSION/{install,index}.php
Check to see if there are any custom templates in wiki.sluug.org/lib/tpl
(besides the default
template). We don't use any (yet), so we don't need to copy anything over.
Re-create the sitemap file.
touch dokuwiki-$VERSION/sitemap.xml.gz
Re-index the site.
php dokuwiki-$VERSION/bin/indexer.php -c
Correct the ownership and permissions so that the web server can write to where it needs to, and so admins can also write files within the directory.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data dokuwiki-$VERSION sudo chmod -R g+w dokuwiki-$VERSION
Switch over to the new version.
rm public ln -s dokuwiki-$VERSION public
Test the site. Make sure you can browse to a few different pages. Also make sure you can edit and save a page. Check out the search feature, backlinks, and old revisions.
Once you're comfortable that the upgrade went OK, you can delete the directory for the previous version of DokuWiki.
rm -rf dokuwiki-$OLD_VERSION
Go to the DokuWiki configuration directory
cd /home/web/wiki.sluug.org/public/conf
Install the skeleton authorization files
cp -ip users.auth.php.dist users.auth.php cp -ip acl.auth.php.dist acl.auth.php
Create a backup of the main config file
cp -ip local.php local.php.090219
Edit local.php using your favorite editor to uncomment the useacl line:
$conf['useacl'] = 1; // Enable Access Control List authorization
Create a new account using your web browser:
Edit local.php using your favorite editor to add this line:
$conf['disableactions'] = 'register'; // Users can't register themselves
Test security using your web browser:
Edit acl.auth.php using your favorite editor to:
* discuss 16
An attempt to edit the same page (still displayed from the earlier test) still displays the source, but now says that update is not allowed. Refreshing the page, it no longer has the "Edit" buttons.
Test for an authenticated user:
For more information, see the ACL documentation.
Copy the files in /var/backups off the server. Delete older versions, or at least create a subdirectory structure.
Turn on wordblock to ban edits with certain words (to prevent spamming and profanity)? May not be necessary if we implement ACLs and require users to log in to make edits, except for limited areas.
See if we have the PHP GD extension and libgd2. (I think they might have been installed now, but it was tricky to keep them from installing the entire X library set.)
Consider changing these config values: fetchsize, registernotify, gzip_output, pluginmanager, hidepages, sitemap
See if there are any new configuration settings we should change.
We should make sure there's a robots.txt
file for the Wiki site.
We might want to consider setting permissions, so that local users can't read protected stuff. However, I don't think we're going to ever have any content that truly needs protecting.
Initially installed, configured, and documented by Craig Buchek, 2005-09-10.
Updated to newer versions on 2005-11-26, 2007-05-09, 2008-06-11, 2009-02-19, 2010-01-08.