Piotr Gabryjeluk

Good job everyone.

I'll be giving this a test drive this weekend. Given the limitations, I'm trying to see what the real advantages are. I can see where this would be good for those that want to run a basic Wikidot system on a host that supports PostgreSQL (http://www.siteground.com/postgres-hosting.htm looks like a relatively inexpensive way to go), but then why not just use wikidot.com as a free host and get all the benefits?

One benefit I could see is the ability to run other types of services (i.e a different discussion forum if you want) under the same URL.

Maybe there is a void that this will fill, but I can't clearly see what it is yet.

If you want a really simple Ubuntu install, check out my installable ISO! ;)

-Ed

that this solves are:

• no need for special domain just for a Wikidot instance
• no need for root priviledges
• no need to run Lighttpd
• can co-exists with other sites hosted on Apache (it's now just a normal directory with index.php, no more "magic" rewrites)
• having an easy way of installing Wikidot on a regular machine to easily start developing some additions to Wikidot

there are things that need to be improved still:

• some redirects in JavaScript cause user to dive out of the site
• forum not activated
• printer friendly version not working
• … (more of them)

I get a "dump.sql:227: ERROR: type "tsvector" does not exist" error. WTF is happening?

You probably don't use PostgreSQL 8.3

Is there a way to install on PostgreSQL 8.1?

Can you fix step 1 from:

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 imagemagick subversion postgresql postgresql-contrib php5-tidy php5-pgsql php5-gd zip

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 imagemagick subversion postgresql-8.3 postgresql-contrib-8.3 php5-tidy php5-pgsql php5-gd zip

hi,

i really want to say i love this initiative. I would really like to run wikidot on a shared hosting environment, to create adfree websites. If there is specific things I can do to help, let me know. php html and css and mysql knowledge, but no experience with the wikidot software.

Some feedback I already wanted to send. After following the instructions above, on my ubuntu box apache didn't parse the php. I followed the instructions under troubleshooting apache from this page and then it worked.

When I try to save some source code in a page on the wiki I get the following error: The ajax request failed. Please check your internet connection or report a bug if the error repeats during your work. code:500

Working forum would be tops!

I noticed that the download size of wdlite is 172mb. I was wondering if all of this is necessary stuff? Otherwise it would be nice to be able to get a smaller sized package with exactly what people need.

thanks again for the great work. Wikidot on shared host environments would really give the software a popularity boost I think.

greets
naja

ps: These are the full headers of the code 500 error. Probably it is an apache config problem too, but I haven't yet figured out the fix:

http://localhost/wiki/wdlite/trunk/?/ajax-module-connector.php

POST /wiki/wdlite/trunk/?/ajax-module-connector.php HTTP/1.1

Host: localhost

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121622 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.5

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5

Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

Keep-Alive: 1000

Connection: keep-alive

X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8

Referer: http://localhost/wiki/wdlite/trunk/?/sandbox

Content-Length: 269

Cookie: wikidot_token7=f9b902fc3289af4dd08de5d1de54f68f; WIKIDOT_SESSION_ID_IE=1237999171_26

Pragma: no-cache

Cache-Control: no-cache

page_id=&title=Sandbox&source=qsdf&comments=&action=WikiPageAction&event=savePage&mode=page&wiki_page=sandbox&lock_id=96&lock_secret=0ea1ec6a2170fbee06c0b5c7ba642ca0&revision_id=undefined&moduleName=Empty&callbackIndex=14&wikidot_token7=f9b902fc3289af4dd08de5d1de54f68f

HTTP/1.x 500 Internal Server Error

Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:05:53 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.5 with Suhosin-Patch

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.4-2ubuntu5.5

Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate

Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT

Content-Length: 0

Connection: close

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

Any recent news about WD Lite ?

WdLite was kind of hack to make it work in shared environment. But now I'm thinking what to do to make Wikidot easier to run for average user (with no root probably). This would also probably be only a limited version of software, but really easy to install and more stable than wdlite.