Question

Hi,

Does anyone have an installation setup where Twiki and Linux + needed options are available as a single install?

If that does not exist, what is an easy combination of Linux + Twiki. So that I can get Twiki installed and focus on Twiki and its plugins rather than on Linux issues.

I have installed and administered Twiki on hosted servers but keep failing to get Twiki working on an internal server for the non profit I started working for www.ugarc.org

Thanks Bart 845 331 4300 x 273

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-- BartLouwagie - 25 Jul 2006

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Wow, sure seems like you are determined to put some effort into getting TWiki up and running, that's excellent (and yep, needed in many cases)!

If you are able to run a VMware instance in your hosting environment TWikiVMDebianStable might be worth checking out. Else I would recommend going with Debian (if you are not able to use the VM in production you could still run it locally and perhaps look at the way it is setup for inspiration).

On choice of Linux distro in general: Really, you should go with whatever you can get some support on - if you have a friend that is running Fedora, Fedora is your choice, etc

-- SteffenPoulsen - 25 Jul 2006

Thank you for that response Steffen. I can dedicate a whole machine to Twiki, so VMWARE is not the issue. I have installed http://www.ubuntu.com/server which is a server based on Debian, so I'll try that first. Reading the help files of Twiki seems to indicate challenges because Debian has different default locations from other Linux distributions, thus needing more install changes??? Not sure.

-- BartLouwagie - 30 Aug 2006

If anyone has such a package to already integrates a Linux build, a Twiki setup, and even a link to Active Directory user, ready to install it could even be worth some money to us; (and to others I'm sure). Basically I hope to create a Microsoft Sharepoint alternative with this.

-- BartLouwagie - 30 Aug 2006

Bart, it would probably be easiest to start with TWikiVMDebianStable (on top of Ubuntu Server, which does support VMware) and then migrate to native Debian (or Ubuntu Server, which is fairly close to Debian anyway) once you have that working. Re the Active Directory integration, this is presumably for authentication of users - see the section at end of TWikiVMDebianStable for some discussion of this.

-- RichardDonkin - 30 Aug 2006

Holy ... This looks too easy, that should be way on top of the main page, to help win many more users over. I'll try that asap.

Thanks Bart

-- BartLouwagie - 06 Sep 2006

Hi ,

This VMware based install works beautifully. I wished it was referred to on the main install documentation. Doing so would greatly improve user adoptation.

As far as Windows user authentication goes, that VMware based install may need a lot of modification since it is running apache 2 and Windows authentication seems to be an Apache 1 based solution.

-- BartLouwagie - 16 Sep 2006