Basic Setup | Install the Software (CLI) | Install the Software (FTP) | Set the Passwords
Installation requires fewer than twenty commands. There's no database to worry about because PmWiki writes your pages into "page files" in the pagestore directory (wiki.d/).
You'll download four archive files, totaling about 1/2 megabyte in size.
The installation log is for a webserver running Linux/BSD/macOS. Log in via SSH or use a terminal app to type in the commands. You can also install the software via SFTP or FTP.
The current PmWiki version is shown on the download page.
Installation Log
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## Change to the web document root's directory cd www/ # http://www.example.com/ points to this directory ## Get pmwiki wget http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-latest.tgz ## Unpack the archive tar -zxvf pmwiki-latest.tgz ## Rename the directory. "site" and "content" are good name choices mv pmwiki-2.2.118 site # note: the PmWiki version may be different ## Change to the wiki's local directory cd site/local/ ## Get the CMS Mode recipe, QuickWikiCMS recipe, and Adapt Skin wget http://haganfox.net/pmwfiles/CMSMode-latest.tar.gz wget http://haganfox.net/pmwfiles/QuickWikiCMS-latest.tar.gz wget http://haganfox.net/pmwfiles/AdaptSkin-latest.tar.gz ## Unpack the recipes and skin tar -zxvf CMSMode-latest.tar.gz -C ../ # extract to main directory tar -zxvf QuickWikiCMS-latest.tar.gz -C ../ # extract to main directory tar -zxvf AdaptSkin-latest.tar.gz -C ../pub/skins/ # ex. to pub/skins/ ## Rename the index file so we can use it mv ../index-CMS-php.txt ../index.php # It's /index.php now ## Rename the configuration file so we can use it mv config-CMS-php.txt config.php ## Set temporary permissions on the site/ directory chmod 2777 ../ # writable with setgid; ../ is the site/ directory ## ## Visit your site's URL with your browser. PmWiki will create ## wiki.d/ (the pagestore directory) and uploads/ on the first visit. ## ## Remove temporary permissions chmod 0775 ../ # reset permissions chmod g-s ../ # make sure setgid is off vi config.php # or maybe: pico config.php
If the "temporary permissions" part seems like too much hassle, you can create wiki.d/ and uploads/ directories and give them 777 (world-writable) permissions instead. (Not recommended in a shared hosting environment.)
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