History: InstallTikiGForge

by Xavier de Pedro.

I'll explain how I did install Tiki (1.8.4) on a server with GForge, and also three more tiki sites using its multi-install capability. In my case I installed them on http://ourproject.org (op.o), which offers free hosting for free projects (with copylefted content). So these steps can be followed easily there, and I guess that they are reproducible at any GForge'd server (version 3 or later).

We'll assume that you already have an account at any Gforge'd server (such as op.o)

1. Download Tiki to your local computer.
2. Open a SSH file transfer connection to the Gforge'd server
3. Upload the file containing tiki install, and follow the common procedures described under the file "install" for a common single tiki install on Unix, except that permissions to directories have to be set as 777 (permission to read execute and write to other users and groups in the server), instead of 755 or 775, as reported in other places in tw.o.

• For a multitiki install, there is a slightly different procedure than the one described in RecipeMultitiki, on InstallVirtualHosting, because with GForge, there is no need of root access to touch any httpd.conf.
• If we consideer, for instance, a parent tiki site called "myproject" and installed at URL http://myproject.ourproject.org, the URL of the multitiki sites (for instance, site1, site2...) are of the form:
  • http://myproject.site1.ourproject.org ,
  • http://myproject.site2.ourproject.org ...
    (instead of the common names for virtual hosting:
    http://site1.myproject.ourproject.org,
    http://site2.myproject.ourproject.org, ...).

• The op.o Gforged server allows users to connect through SSH to execute commands, to (for a userX):

/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/users/userX/

• And the project is created at:

/var/lib/gforge/chroot/home/groups/myproject/

(...)

1. The local.php file, is as:

<?php
$db_tiki='mysql';
$dbversion_tiki='1.8';
$host_tiki="localhost";
$user_tiki="user";
$pass_tiki="****";

if ($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] == "myproject.ourproject.org") {
	$dbs_tiki    = 'ddbb0';
	$tikidomain  = '';
} elseif ($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] == "myproject.site1.ourproject.org") {
	$dbs_tiki    = 'ddbb1';
	$tikidomain  = 'site1';
} elseif ($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] == "myproject.site2.ourproject.org") {
	$dbs_tiki    = 'ddbb2';
	$tikidomain  = 'site2';
} elseif ($_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] == "myproject.site3.ourproject.org") {
	$dbs_tiki    = 'ddbb3';
	$tikidomain  = 'site3';
} else {
	// default case, your choice is to block or open to a default domain
	$dbs_tiki    = 'myproject';
	$tikidomain  = '';
}
?>

(...)

(to be continued; no more time right now 😕)