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This page is to document "what Tiki should do". For feature documentation (what Tiki does), please see corresponding page on doc site
Non-Linux, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD, etc Type of page »  Feature page

Operating System independence

Most Tiki installations are on Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP. However, Tiki runs on more than just Linux. You can run it anywhere PHP can run. However, it is not as well tested and you may run into minor issues.

Starting with 5.x, Tiki is available in the Microsoft Web App Gallery at:
http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/Tiki.aspx
The installation is automated and generally reliable.

Related: Database Independence, Browser Compatibility

Windows compatibility project

Who

  • Greg Martin
  • Marc Laporte
  • Jimmy Gilbert
  • Chris Tingle
  • You? We are looking for volunteers.



What

  1. A large number proportion of forum posts are related to IIS or Windows hosting issues and many more are reported below.
  2. It is thought that most are various symptoms of a small number of real issues. These issues are presumed easy to fix. These problems are typically path issues. This apparently was working well in 1.9.x and possibly some problems appeared in 2.x. So we should test side by side 1.9.x, 2.x and 3.x to detect issues.
  3. Most of the active developers in Tiki use Linux and thus Windows issues are not naturally detected and solved.
  4. There are various hacks/recipes to make Tiki work in various environments. These should be checked and added to the main code base.


Why

Some corporate environments require that web apps run on Windows. So, in these cases, adding a LAMP server is not practical. Tiki gains to have higher adoption by working on more platforms.

Priorities

Please re-order this list! (It's just a first draft for now)

  1. WinXP + XAMPP works Install Tiki on XAMPP
  2. WinXP + EasyPHP works (Windows Local Install EasyPhp

  1. Win2008 Server, Apache, MySQL
  2. Win2008 Server, IIS, MySQL Windows Server Install
  3. Win2003 Server, IIS, MySQL (I submit that with Xampp there is already a workable solution for Apache)
  4. Win2003 Server, Apache, MySQL (seems to work fine)
  5. Standard shared Windows hosting like GoDaddy, etc.


http://tiki.org/tiki-browse_categories.php?parentId=70

Keep web.config and .htaccess synchronized

The web_config file for IIS needs to be kept in sync with _htaccess (for Apache). Most modifications are done to htaccess.

To convert rules from Apache to IIS, see Importing Apache mod_rewrite Rules if you're on Windows and Translate .htaccess Content to IIS web.config for examples.

If you are adding (or otherwise modifying the configuration) for one of the servers and can't do it for the other, add an entry here pointing to your commit that needs to be ported to the other server.


Starting in Tiki11, with route.php, this will become trivial.

Microsoft provides for automatic installs of PHP, MySQL & Tiki. We maintain the Tiki install for them. It's a quick way to get running on IIS.


Improve the documentation

Specific Windows install guides should be made if necessary


Contest

http://www.phponwindows.ca/ftw/

TRIM via FTP

TRIM will work with FTP somewhere during the Summer of 2009. now works with FTP. This will be yet another thing to make it easier to manage Tiki on Windows.

Items on wishlist

Open

Pending

Closed

RatingSubjectSubmitted byImportanceEasy to solve?PriorityCategoryVolunteered to solveCreatedLastModifComments
(0) _htaccess should know which version of Tiki it is forMarc Laporte9 high872
  • Feature request
  • Less than 30-minutes fix
Nelson Ko2009-12-252012-04-160
(0) Images don't appear to some people when using GD on Windows server (weird)Marc Laporte1 low5
  • Error
2008-02-062011-09-233
heer2351-16 Mar 10
(0) Trailing backslash at domain in URLs when installed in DocumentRootstefricht1 low5
  • Error
  • Patch
Philippe Cloutier2008-12-152010-05-255
Tiamat74-01 Apr 10
(0) Incorrect URLs on IIS installs in document rootthebookdoc9 high45
  • Error
  • Usability
  • Patch
  • Support request
  • Documentation (or Advocacy)
  • Consistency
Philippe Cloutier2009-01-062010-05-156
AJStevens-16 Dec 09
(0) Wrong path with additional slash on IIS installs in document rootSMaton9 high45
  • Error
  • Usability
2009-02-132010-05-253
Chealer9-08 Mar 10
(0) Tiki Installer Security Precaution on Windows installing in document rootsipiptel840
  • Error
  • Usability
  • Regression
Philippe Cloutier2010-01-302010-07-096
Chealer9-09 Mar 10
(0) MySQL-Errors approve+stagingwalklife735
  • Error
walklife2008-07-292010-05-102
Chealer9-08 Mar 10
(0) installation issues with v2.0 and MSSQL backendGrayMatter735
  • Error
2008-09-082009-08-081
ragnvald-24 Sep 08
(0) Button links broken on IIS installationclicc735
  • Usability
  • Support request
  • Consistency
Philippe Cloutier2009-05-152010-05-252
davenh-04 Jun 09
(0) Crash on a replication of site from Unix to Windows - and windows installationBernard TREMBLAY735
  • Error
  • Conflict of two features (each works well independently)
2010-02-072017-06-184
trebly-07 Feb 10
(0) Incorrect base path detected when installing on IIS (Directory does not exist errors)wondertrout630
  • Error
Philippe Cloutier2008-09-252011-09-231
heer2351-02 Apr 09
(0) 404 Error instead of "Create Page" with unknown Wiki-page-name with IISamette7428
  • Error
  • Usability
Philippe Cloutier2005-10-072010-03-090
(0) Themes don't work on Windows serverGary Cunningham-Lee525
  • Regression
Gary Cunningham-Lee2008-04-102009-02-130
(0) FCKEditor missing tikiwiki toolbarasphaltjesus25
  • Error
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
2008-04-252011-09-2332
paleogusy-15 Apr 09
(0) twversion.class.php causes PHP-Error in Windows-Server525
  • Error
2008-07-252010-05-101
Chealer9-08 Mar 10
(0) TikiWiki crashing ApacheHamletCygar420HamletCygar2007-02-222010-03-080
(0) USB key version of TikiMarc Laporte420
  • Feature request
  • Community projects
2007-07-112011-04-060
(0) Spelling error in dev Report a Bug page: SEWilco315
  • Dogfood on a *.tiki.org site
  • Consistency
2008-07-282008-08-130
(0) RSS feed broken by backslash if tw in root of subdomainfelix hruschka210
  • Error
  • Usability
Philippe Cloutier2006-10-272010-05-250


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Keywords

The following is a list of keywords that should serve as hubs for navigation within the Tiki development and should correspond to documentation keywords.

Each feature in Tiki has a wiki page which regroups all the bugs, requests for enhancements, etc. It is somewhat a form of wiki-based project management. You can also express your interest in a feature by adding it to your profile. You can also try out the Dynamic filter.

Accessibility (WAI & 508)
Accounting
Administration
Ajax
Articles & Submissions
Backlinks
Banner
Batch
BigBlueButton audio/video/chat/screensharing
Blog
Bookmark
Browser Compatibility
Calendar
Category
Chat
Comment
Communication Center
Consistency
Contacts Address book
Contact us
Content template
Contribution
Cookie
Copyright
Credits
Custom Home (and Group Home Page)
Database MySQL - MyISAM
Database MySQL - InnoDB
Date and Time
Debugger Console
Diagram
Directory (of hyperlinks)
Documentation link from Tiki to doc.tiki.org (Help System)
Docs
DogFood
Draw -superseded by Diagram
Dynamic Content
Preferences
Dynamic Variable
External Authentication
FAQ
Featured links
Feeds (RSS)
File Gallery
Forum
Friendship Network (Community)
Gantt
Group
Groupmail
Help
History
Hotword
HTML Page
i18n (Multilingual, l10n, Babelfish)
Image Gallery
Import-Export
Install
Integrator
Interoperability
Inter-User Messages
InterTiki
jQuery
Kaltura video management
Kanban
Karma
Live Support
Logs (system & action)
Lost edit protection
Mail-in
Map
Menu
Meta Tag
Missing features
Visual Mapping
Mobile
Mods
Modules
MultiTiki
MyTiki
Newsletter
Notepad
OS independence (Non-Linux, Windows/IIS, Mac, BSD)
Organic Groups (Self-managed Teams)
Packages
Payment
PDF
Performance Speed / Load / Compression / Cache
Permission
Poll
Profiles
Quiz
Rating
Realname
Report
Revision Approval
Scheduler
Score
Search engine optimization (SEO)
Search
Security
Semantic links
Share
Shopping Cart
Shoutbox
Site Identity
Slideshow
Smarty Template
Social Networking
Spam protection (Anti-bot CATPCHA)
Spellcheck
Spreadsheet
Staging and Approval
Stats
Survey
Syntax Highlighter (Codemirror)
Tablesorter
Tags
Task
Tell a Friend
Terms and Conditions
Theme
TikiTests
Federated Timesheets
Token Access
Toolbar (Quicktags)
Tours
Trackers
TRIM
User Administration
User Files
User Menu
Watch
Webmail and Groupmail
WebServices
Wiki History, page rename, etc
Wiki plugins extends basic syntax
Wiki syntax text area, parser, etc
Wiki structure (book and table of content)
Workspace and perspectives
WYSIWTSN
WYSIWYCA
WYSIWYG
XMLRPC
XMPP




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