• Manage Tikis on your local Windows instance
  • It is possible to manage remote Windows instances by SSH but it's out of scope of the current docs.
• From Windows, manage Remote Tikis that are on GNU/Linux

• Performance is likely not as good as if running Tiki natively: Apache for Cygwin is not as high-performance as Apache for Windows on the same hardware. This is to be expected, because Cygwin emulates a Unix environment on a "foreign" operating system, while Apache for Windows uses Windows code in its own native environment. First benchmark results have shown that Apache for Cygwin is about 30% slower than native Apache for Windows counterpart.
  • But this quote is old, so it deserves to be benchmarked.
  • Is this statement about TRIM or really about Tiki?

Install Cygwin normally. If you are behind a corporate firewall, you may need to select "Use System Proxy Settings" for the Internet Connection (instead of "Direct Connection")

And the select the following packages:

Category: Admin

• cron

Category: Archive

• bzip2

Category: Database

• mysql (client)
• sqlite3 (client)

Category: Devel

• make
• subversion (do not install this if you intend to use TortoiseSVN)

Category: Net

• rsync
• openssh

Category: PHP

• php
• php-ctype
• php-curl
• php-iconv
• php-json
• php-mysqli
• php-pdo_sqlite
• php-phar
• php-sqlite3
• php-zip
• php-zlib

If you are also going to install Tiki instances in the same Cygwin, you also need:
Category: Database

• mysql-serverpdo

Category: PHP

• php-calendar
• php-fileinfo
• php-gd
• php-intl
• php-mbstring
• php-pdo_mysql

Category:Devel

• patch (This is to patch some of Tiki's external dependencies from Composer)

• curl (to query Elasticsearch)
• nano (text editor)
• wget (to fetch files from websites)
• mc (file management)
• opcache (for better performance)

When in the Cygwin shell, you will a familar set of folders, such as /etc /home /var ... To access files in Windows, use the cygdrive

Why use TortoiseSVN?

• Having TortoiseSVN can make it easier for some site admins
• TortoiseSVN gives you both GUI and CLI (when requested during install)
• TortoiseSVN has a Proxy Setting that worked while setting same proxy in Cygwin has not worked for SVN

• "You must not use a native Windows client and the Cygwin client on the same working copy. And if you share a working copy over a network you must not use a Linux and a Windows client on the same working copy."
• "But you can only use different clients if they all use the same version of the Subversion library." -> This is looking for trouble. Best just to use the same for both.

1. Open the Cygwin shell
2. Type "which svn"
3. You should see something like: "/cygdrive/c/Program Files/TortoiseSVN/bin/svn"

   
   

• Document how to start set Cygwin Apache as a service
  • What is the interest of Cygwin Apache?
    • Updates are handled by Cygwin
• Document how to open firewall for a server, and close firewall for a personal computer
• Document sending mail
• Go through TRIM Test Plan

• Make a 1-line command line to copy-paste: https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.setup.cli
  • And later, when it's all nice and stable, let's make a TRIM package for Cygwin
• Automate to have a locally running copy (make clone) on Windows of a live site (which is on GNU/Linux)
• Test php-opcache to measure performance gain (it would be great to have a quick performance check in tiki-check.php
• Investigate https://github.com/babun/babun

• How to install Tiki on Apache and MariaDB for Windows