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  • **unknown user**
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    Posted: 28.08.2006, 06:51
    Does anybody have Guiki working? I've tried a couple of times to configure it with no results.

    The module appears on the admin-page module list, but offers no description and does not present an "admin" link when initialized and activated. Nor does it appear under any of the module tabs on the admin page.

    I did create the tables in my database, using the queries offered with the package.

    Hints or clues?

    Are there any other current Wiki modules in circulation?

    I'd love to try pnWikka, but I don't find any valid download link on the page: http://dev.pnconcept.com/pnWikka.html. The putative download link points to http://dev.pnconcept.com, which only points back to http://dev.pnconcept.com/pnWikka.html

    pnroWiki seems to not have been updated since 2004, so it's probably not worth trying, and pnphpwiki seems to be missing in action - i.e. all links to related sites are dead.



    edited by: luzdelsol, Aug 28, 2006 - 07:07 AM
  • larsneo
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    Posted: 28.08.2006, 11:06
    at http://support.pn-cms.de we use a 'bridged' dokuwiki: http://noc.postnuke.com/projects/dokuwiki/

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    Posted: 28.08.2006, 15:11
    Thanks. I've downloaded it, but it might be a day or a week until I get a chance to install and test drive. I've also test driven mediawiki and tikiwiki, but found no satisfying results yet.

    Dokuwiki seems to include version control, which is near the top of my list of must-haves. Inside Postnuke, I might find that it affords the fine control over read/write permissions I require. EZ comments might afford the back-room discussion capacity, but so far the only Wiki I've found that moves discussion of content off-page seems to be MediaWiki, which astoundingly lacks any fine control over read/write permissions.
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    Posted: 28.08.2006, 19:54
    Okay, now I've uploaded docuwiki but I seem to have encountered the same disfunctional installation and implausible documentation that seems to plague most Wiki modules I've tried for PostNuke.

    In a simple install, following routines typical of most functional PN modular add-ons, the modules list in the PN admin panel finds it, intitializes and activates it, but does not include it in the list of "third party modules" and does not offer an "admin" link on the modules list -- same as with Guiki.

    Following more closely the installation instructions, I encountered implausible documentation.

    At http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki%3AInstall we are told to unpack the tarball and "in the dokuwiki-YYYY-MM-DD/data directory create a new empty file named changes.log" and "Create a new folder inside the /data/ directory and rename it to meta." But the tarball contains no directory named "data". Until I get better information, I am classifying that as inaccurate documentation.

    Besides a bit of misdirection, no real problem there, though. One simply needs to presume authors missed a step or two in packing and documenting the module, and manually create a "data" directory. In the best of worlds, an administrator would not need to create files in a module - all those claimed to be there and those required for whatever reason to be manually added by the installer would be packaged with the module.

    We are told in the intallation document included with the module to upload to the very familiar "modules directory" ("Create a folder PostNuke_rootfolder/modules/dokuwiki" ... "as described at http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki%3AInstall") But at that URL, we find instructions to look for the installation at "www.example.com/dokuwiki/doku.php".

    Two problems there -- one, if it is installed at example.com/modules/docuwiki/etc how would it be found at example.com/dokuwiki/etc ? And more confounding, there is no "doku.php" file anywhere in the tarball, so why would we be looking for it in any of our directories?

    There are other issues to be sorted -- specifically setting permissions and figuring out what the instructions mean when they say "This module is used for block control in Xanthia only!"

    The "Xanthia only" statement seems to infer that the module only works in Xanthia, so I probably will forego any additional effort to install until I configure a Xanthia theme.

    Thanks to whomever ported this Wiki to PostNuke -- it's understandable with freewares that despite people's best efforts, software packages and instructions would fail under typical usage. But just based on taking it off the shelf and installing it in typical postnuke add-on fashion, the documentation doesn't provide sufficient information that accurately correlates with the available package to make this a workable solution for a person not interested in debugging a complicated package that is not accurately documentated.

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