Hi all. I want to set up a wiki on my freepgs site. I know DOS, HTML VB and JavaScript but not php, perl or much linux or other modern web techniques. Can anyone direct me to a clear desription of how to install, say phpWiki and get it running and password-protected. Thanks in advance.
Basic knowledge of PHP is necessary to customize most scripts -- unless the standard configuration is all you need. Usually only the best-known products have comprehensive documentation covering installation. It helps if you can test things out before you upload them to your site. For that you'll need a server installation kit on your PC (Apache, MySQL & PHP). There are many to choose from, but in my opinion WAMP5 is easiest for a newbie and runs on Windows_XP:
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
Version 1.4.4 of WAMP5, which is still available for download, incorporates:
MySQL 4.1.20
Apache 1.3.33
PHP 5.0.4
It doesn't matter that the Apache version is different to FreePgs. The important thing is that the PHP/MySQL versions are the same.
I haven't tried setting up a wiki, but here's a link for MediaWiki, which is used by Wikipedia:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Installation
EDIT: Just to clarify, FreePgs uses PHP 5.0.4 and MySQL_5, while MediaWiki can use either MySQL_4 or MySQL_5.
I though it would be interesting to try out a wiki package for the first time. I did some research and then posted a short summary to the forum's user-blog:
http://forum.freepgs.com/index.php?action=viewblog;u=553;id=4