Script install.php in Fedora 14 RPM?

dan-btown

Hey there,

I'm in the process of setting up DokuWiki on local servers in our office and "virtual" servers at our ISP, both on Fedora.

I realized that the script install.php is not contained in the DokuWiki RPM of the Fedora repositories; see
* http://www.dokuwiki.org/install:fedora?s[]=fedora.

Is anyone here by chance aware of the installation concept behind the Fedora DokuWiki RPM?
Is the user expected to tailor the file local.php all manually since there's no install.php packaged in the RPM?

Or what would be the next setup step in the Fedora world after installing the DokuWiki RPM if not calling install.php?

Any hint is greatly appreciated,
thx. romans!
-- Dan

andi

Distribution packages usually do the initial configuration for you, so install.php isn't needed. The Debian package will ask you everything that install.php usually asks through debconf. I'm not sure how this is handled in Fedora. Maybe it setups a default user?

dan-btown

Hey Andi,

thx. for responding promptly!

In the course of the installation of the DokuWiki RPMs on Fedora 14 (via rpm / yum / yumex), the user isn't asked any questions, and it leaves the user with a local.php with just 3 lines regarding the title option, the useacl option and the superuser option but only commented out.

So, since ACL is turned off and no default users are prepared through the install scripts of the package manager, it's hard to guess what would be the next step, because it's also not possible to call the configurator script or the user manager script either.

I think this situation should be addressed at the packagers (that is, the Fedora packaging team) because it is really not good if the packagers leave the users alone with no clue as to what would be the next step after installing, and I'm willing to approach the packagers regarding this issue.

Insofar, your answer was helpful. :-)

On the other hand, it means that
* http://www.dokuwiki.org/install:fedora?s[]=fedora
should be taken with care.

I'll go see what I can achieve at Fedora's and come back here to report.

Cheers again,
-- Dan

dan-btown

There's now a bugzilla ticket regarding the issue at hand:
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=698784

dan-btown

I compared the script /conf/dokuwiki.php from the original DokuWiki tgz at http://www.splitbrain.org/projects/dokuwiki with the /conf/dokuwiki.php created by the RPM / yum / yumex install of the package dokuwiki-0-0.7.20101107.a.fc14 and realized that the only difference is the definition of the data directory.

So I made up this workaround:
(Become root to do steps 03 to 09.)

01 _ Install package dokuwiki-0-0.7.20101107.a.fc14 (and possibly dokuwiki-selinux).
02 _ Download the original DokuWiki tgz at http://www.splitbrain.org/projects/dokuwiki.
03 _ Copy the script install.php from the tgz archive to /usr/share/dokuwiki
04 _ Symlink from /usr/share/dokuwiki/data to /var/lib/dokuwiki/data
05 _ Rename /usr/share/dokuwiki/conf/dokuwiki.php to dokuwiki.php.bak
06 _ Copy the original script /conf/dokuwiki.php from the tgz archive to /usr/share/dokuwiki/conf
07 _ Rename /usr/share/dokuwiki/conf/local.php to local.php.bak
08 _ Rename /usr/share/dokuwiki/conf/users.auth.php to user.auth.php.bak
09 _ Rename /usr/share/dokuwiki/conf/acl.auth.php to acl.auth.php.bak
10 _ Call /dokwiki/install.php on your http server.

The script install.php will guide the user through the setup process of DokuWiki and will arrange for a default DokuWiki user.

turnermm

Why go to all this trouble when you could simply install directly from the downloaded DW tarball?

dan-btown

Hehehe,

not so bad you mentioned! :)

Obviously, for people who do use Fedora, it's a good idea to stick with the Fedora package machinery, because it cares for some other things like arranging the data and config directories according to the layout of the Fedora directory tree, among other aspects (updates / delta updates, uninstall, dependencies, rights, etc).

Secondly, the workaround does not only describe a way to cope with the current RPM packaging, but it does also describe a way how the RPM could (and should IMO) be changed.

Greets,
-- Dan

turnermm

The truth is that Dokuwiki is generally simple to install on any unix-style machine, as long as you can change permissions. Just unpack the tarball and change the ownership of the data and conf directories to the web server, which on Fedora would probably be apache. All of the subdirectories of data must also belong to apache. Since you have access to the command line this is straight forward:
chown -R apache data
Being able to do this means that you can always keep up with the latest distributions of Dokuwiki as they come available. Moreover, you can then also put Dokuwiki wherever you want, in any directory, and under any virtual host, and have as many instances of it on your server as you might want.

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