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Installation
You don't have to be a web developer or programmer to install Tiki. Tiki has an easy-to-use, wizard-based installer which will do most of the work for you. The rest can be completed from your webhost's control panel.If you are a complete novice (or are just not into DIY) consider using Tiki friendly hosts. Many will complete your Tiki setup you free of charge.
- Installation
- Overview
- Step by step installation
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Overview
These videos offer an basic overview of Tiki installation. See Tiki TV and Tiki Movies for additional videos.Step by step installation
Before You Begin
Before installing Tiki, read the Requirements and Setup information. Proper planning can ensure a worry-free installation. If you need a webhost for your Tiki, refer to the list of Tiki Friendly Hosts.These instructions are intentionally generic, and should apply to most shared host installations. See Installation Guides for instructions for specific combination of operating system and web servers.
Pre-requisites
This guide assumes you have:- FTP or SSH (shell) access to a webserver (such as Apache) with PHP5
- access to a MySQL database (should be provided by your webhost)
1. Create the database
Tiki requires a MySQL databse.Many hosts offer a point & click interface to create databases and database users. For example, if your web host has cPanel you probably can see phpMyAdmin in the main menu or a the section labeled Databases.
The MySQL and phpMyAdmin applications in cPanel 11.
Creating a database (and a database user) is a very simple operation. Essentially you will create a blank (empty) database that the Tiki installer will later populate with the correct tables and data.
The Three steps of Database Setup.
- Create a database.
- You can name the database anything you want, but don't get fancy with the name — you can use tiki. Depending on your web host, your full database in phpMyAdmin may be listed as accountname_tiki.
Note: By default, Tiki uses UTF-8 for your database encoding. We strongly encourage you to select "utf8" in the "collation" drop-down box in phpmyadmin (or similar), in the field shown in the following image:
If you select a different encoding method, you may need to manually update your ../db/local.php file.
Tip: If you plan on having multiple Tiki installations, don't use tiki as the database name. - Be sure to record the database name, you will need it later.
- You can name the database anything you want, but don't get fancy with the name — you can use tiki. Depending on your web host, your full database in phpMyAdmin may be listed as accountname_tiki.
- Create a database user (with password).
- Again, don't get fancy with the database username. In fact, you can use the same name that you selected for the database (in step 1).
- Select a strong password. You can easily recover your database username and password if necessary (by reviewing the
../db/local.phpfile in your Tiki directory. - Be sure to record the username and password. You will need it later.
- Assign all database permissions to the database user that you created (in step 2).
Congratulations. You now have a database that is ready to use, as well a a database user (and password) with the necessary permissions.
2. Download and unzip
Download the current version of Tiki to your local computer from http://tiki.org/download.Download button on tiki.org
From Tiki for
The full Tiki archive file download is +20MB and is available in a variety of formats.
After downloading the Tiki archive file, decompress (unzip) the file to your local PC.
3. Upload to your webhost
Use FTP (or SCP, SFTP, Rsync, SSH, etc) to connect to your webhost.Once connected, find your web directory. It is often called
www or public_html.Note: This directory name may vary, depending on your webhost.
Upload all the Tiki files from your PC to you webhost.
- If you upload the Tiki files to the root of your web directory, Tiki will be accessible directly from the URL: http://www.yourdomain.com
- If you have installed (or plan to install) other applications on your webhost, you may consider putting Tiki in its own subdirectory (for example: http://www.yourdomain.com/tiki/). Keep in mind that this might mean that you will have to manually edit the file .htaccess to activate the Tiki subdirectory (for example this "RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /tiki-index.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]" might need to become this "RewriteRule ^(.+)$ /tiki/tiki-index.php?page=$1 [QSA,L]")
Time for more coffee?
4. Go to your website.
Open your web browser and access the web directory in which you copied the Tiki files (for example: http://www.yourdomain.com/tiki/ or simply http://www.yourdomain.com if you copied Tiki to the root of your web directory.The Tiki Installer includes important links to the ReleaseNotes and Documentation. Be sure to review these documents before installing Tiki.
Troubleshooting
If your browser returns an error such as Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, you may have the incorrect PHP version.Starting with Tiki 3.0, Tiki requires PHP5. Review the _htaccess file included in the Tiki archive file for instructions on activating PHP5.
See the Installation FAQs for more help.File and Folder permissions
If your server is unhappy with Tiki file and folder permissions (this is dependent on server configuration), you may get an error message or blank pages. These failed attempts are typically in the error log (ask your web host to know where they are as it's different depending of your setup)
Too few permissions
If a message appears indicating that specific directories are not writable, you will need to change the permissions on the indicated directories. Tiki will attempt to verify that it can read (and write) to all necessary directories. This error message will include instructions about how to resolve the issue.
Too many permissions
If you are getting Internal Server Error 500, blank pages or similar, it could be that the permissions on the files are not appropriate for your webhost.
If your permissions are currently at "777", use your FTP client to change the files to "755". If Tiki is installed in a directory, make sure to also change the permission of the folder which contains the tiki files.
If you have shell access, you can run:
sh setup.sh
and answer any questions. If you don't know what to answer, just click "enter" to keep the defaults.
If "sh setup.sh" doesn't work for you, you may try, in your ./tiki/ directory
chmod -R 777 ./db ./dump ./img/wiki ./img/wiki_up ./img/trackers ./modules/cache ./temp ./temp/cache ./templates_c ./templates ./styles ./whelp/
Another way is to set permissions for all directories and then set permissions for all files. For example, to set the permissions for all directories to 777 and the permissions for all files to 644, use the following separate commands through shell access:
find [YOURDIR] -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;
find [YOURDIR] -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;After correcting any directory or file permission problems, visit tiki-install.php to continue.
5. Run the Tiki installer (tiki-install.php)
Open a web browser to: http://www.yourdomain.com/tiki-install.php (or http://www.yourdomain.com/tiki/tiki-install.php if you installed Tiki in a subdirectory).The first page of the Tiki Installer appears. This installer will allow you to:
- Pick a language
- Test your server settings
- If the installer detects that some of your server settings are inadequate, it will suggest changes to comply to the requirements.
- Enter your database name, username, and password.
This is the information from the database that you created earlier. You did remember to write it down, right? - Create/update the database
- Set some preferences, such as admin email
- Disable the install script
- and more
Complete each page of the Tiki Installer.
Alternative "Step 5" without tiki-install.php
If you are unable to complete the Tiki Installer, continue with a Manual Installation.6. Log in for the first time
Log in using the login box in the right-hand column.- Enter those informations :
- user: Enter admin
- pass: Enter admin
- Click login.
7. Change the default password.
Use a strong password. You may want to logout right away, and login again, letting your password manager record your password.8. Congratulations !
It is recommended to create a new user and give him admin privileges instead of regularly using the admin account. You can now explore the interface but you should check the extra steps before to get you started.9. Configure Your Tiki
Please visit Initial Configuration to explain the recommended next steps, or configuration for the table of contents related to configuring Tiki.Add new features through post-install Profiles
Starting in Tiki3, you can enable several settings/permissions/content in sets altogether in a single go, in order to provide a common feature to your tiki site (make it multilingual, add freetags, configure it as a Collaborative environment, ...). And all that with a just few clicks through the Profile Manager from "Admin > Profiles".Read more about it at Profiles.
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Related pages:
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Installation FAQ Installation Guides - recipes, tips and detailed knowledge about specific hosting environments Migrate to Tikiwiki Move Tiki to a new server Reinstall - to point tiki to a new Database or re-run an upgrade |
Tiki in Ten minutes - a recipe for command line installations. Fantastico Installation Using SSH (for newbies) Manual Installation MultiTiki |
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