From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2004-04-21T12:43:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Setting up a wiki when you don't have root

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:07:30 +0900, Chad Fowler wrote:
> On 20/4/2004, at 4:54 PM, Phil Tomson wrote:
>> I'm taking a research-oriented class (Quantum Computing) where all the
>> students are supposed to find info and develop new ideas based on this
>> research and then share with the rest of the class.  It's the share with
>> the rest of the class part that's problematic.  I suggested that we set
>> up
>> a wiki - of course nobody knew what that was, but when I explained it
>> the
>> prof told me to go and set one up for the class (next time maybe I
>> won't be quite so forthcoming).
>>
>> So the problem is, while I understand how Wikis work and I've used them
>> (and I've even set them up for internal use at work) I'm not quite sure
>> how I would go about setting one up so that anyone on the internet can
>> use it without having root access.
>>
>> I want to use Instiki since it's so easy to setup, but how do I go about
>> setting it up on port 80 without root access so that anyone can get at
>> it?
> RuWiki is really easy to setup as a CGI script.  You might consider that
> one too.

...and, I'm finally getting back to developing on it! Version 0.7.0 (with 
0.8.0, 0.9.0, 0.10.0, and 0.11.0 coming before 1.0.0) will be released soon, 
as soon as I can get with Alan to see if a bug that was reported on 
RubyForge has been fixed or tracked and make sure that the tokenisation unit 
tests are updated to match an API change required to fix some bugs reported 
directly to me.

Additionally, I am also working on 0.8.0 and may be able to do some work 
related to Ruwiki at my new job because they are labouring under a very slow 
and painful PHP-based Wiki (that appears to be doing database storage 
inefficiently).

The bad news about 0.8.0 is that it will require a conversion utility for 
current users of Ruwiki, as I am joining 2004 and using YAML as the storage 
format for the Wiki pages. The good news is that it will have a lot of 
features that are needed, possibly a bit earlier than planned and in my 
current To Do list.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2004.04.20
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