URLs that Tiki connects to


Context: You are installing a Tiki in a secure environment and by default, Tiki can't connect to the web. Below is a list of URLs to white-list and why.

tiki.org Check Tiki version to be notified of updates https://tiki.org/doc/longterm.cycle and https://tiki.org/doc/regular.cycle Ref: https://dev.tiki.org/How+to+release#Admin_panel_update_notifier
packages.tiki.org To get additional packages such as mPDF: Packages The whole sub-domain: http://packages.tiki.org
doc.tiki.org Displaying information in real time (through iframes) from the Upgrade Wizard https://doc.tiki.org/Tiki12
https://doc.tiki.org/Tiki13
https://doc.tiki.org/Tiki14
https://doc.tiki.org/Tiki15
https://doc.tiki.org/Tiki12from9
https://doc.tiki.org/Tiki15from12 (in short)
doc.tiki.org Displaying information in real time from Spreadsheet help. used at ./templates/tiki-edit_help_sheet.tpl https://doc.tiki.org/tiki-index_p.php?page=Spreadsheet
Google fonts (or other web font repository) for fonts imported by CSS. Alternatively, fonts could be stored locally. Typical URL: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato

Optional

ws.sharethis.com From feature Sharethis in blogs and articles (at least) https://ws.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js
external pdf services depends on your setting. Best is to use mPDF


Useful

Profiles https://profiles.tiki.org/ Profiles are to make configuring a Tiki faster and easier


If installed via Subversion (SVN)

Tiki source code https://svn.code.sf.net/p/tikiwiki/code/ (can be http instead of https) Check out and update. Ex. svn checkout https://svn.code.sf.net/p/tikiwiki/code/branches/15.x .
Composer dependency package manager for PHP https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar Composer self updates when running sh setup.sh or php temp/composer.phar install
Composer packages https://composer.tiki.org/
Packagist (optional) https://packagist.org Composer diagnose script which tests with packagist.org (but Tiki files are not stored there) php temp/composer.phar diagnose

Tiki Manager

Tiki Manager source code https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki-manager
Tiki Tiki Manager gets Tiki Source code from https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki

Sending email

By default, Tiki will use the server's sendmail (via PHP). If this is not configured, please see: SMTP

Others

There is a call to Google Chart API to make a pie chart in the performance admin panel (the byte code cache tab of the tiki-admin.php?page=performance). Ex.: https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=p3&chs=250x100&chd=t%3A0.76%2C0.24&chl=Used%7CAvailable&chtt=Memory todo: replace this by a Tiki generated pie chart fixed in 18.4 and 19.2

Related:
Tiki policy with respect to external links