[ale] wiki recommendations?

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 13:23:54 EST 2006


Pete,

If your still looking for a easy solution, instiwiki is supposed to be
very easy to install.  Just needs ruby installed.  It includes its own
webserver and db.

Greg

On 1/3/06, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/3/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi Pete,
> >
> > Are you really sure that you need mod_python?  I run a Moin wiki site without using mod_python at all.
>
> I was attempting to back out the mod_python use, but have not yet been
> successful at that.
>
> >
> > Here's some things to try:
> >
> > - in <moin-var-directory>/cgi-bin/moin.cgi   check to make sure that your sys.path contains values
> > similar to these:
> >
> >   sys.path.insert(0, '/var/moinmoin/')   <-- this is the directory where your wikiconfig.py file should exist
> >   sys.path.insert(0, '/usr/local/moinmoin/lib')
> >
> > - in <moin-var-directory>/wikiconfig.py check to make sure that data_dir, data_underlay_dir are setup correctly.
>
> I'll give those a try tonight or tomorrow.
>
> >
> > Are you using the wiki as the 'root' website (instead of something like http://www.server.com/wiki/)?
>
> Nope.  For internal use, we'll all bookmark it, so we're fine with
> http://localhost/wikiname/
>
> >
> > -Jim P.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
> > To: Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com>; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 11:14:59 AM
> > Subject: Re: [ale] wiki recommendations?
> >
> > On 1/3/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > I've gotten MoinMoin to work, after probably the same miserable experiences as yourself.  ;-)  What's holding you up with Moin?
> >
> > Well, I can't seem to get mod_python to call the Moin stuff correctly
> > - I even tried backing out to Moin via CGI, and all I get are errors
> > calling Moin.
> >
> > When I was deep into the pod_python attempt, I was getting a 'can't
> > find module' looking for a config file wikiconfig, claiming that it
> > had no '.py' suffix.  I did a find for anything 'wikiconfig*' and
> > found only wikiconfig.py files, so I'm guessing it was a default
> > value, but the only references Google could find were actual instances
> > of that error on a web page - people who had the same problem, but on
> > an externally visible site. :-<
> >
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Greg Freemyer
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