Difference between revisions of "MindTouch"

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MindTouch is an enterprise wiki and collaborative portal. For more information, see the Wikipedia article, and the SourceForge project.

Installation

Feel free to follow along on the MindTouch Installation Guide. However, these installation instructions assume you'll be using Nginx instead of Apache.

• Install MySQL.
• Install Nginx and php-fpm.
• Compile the mindtouch Arch User Repository package and install the resulting mindtouch and mindtouch-setup packages.
• If you would like to use Prince to allow PDF export, install the princexml package from the Arch User Repository.

• The mindtouch package added a file that can be used to simplify the nginx configuration, but you'll need to create a link to it in your nginx configuration directory. As root:

# cd /etc/nginx/conf
# ln -s /usr/share/mindtouch/nginx-rewrites mindtouch-rewrites

• Add the following configuration to nginx, modifying to suit your needs:

server {
  listen       80;
  server_name  mindtouch;

  location / {
    root /usr/share/webapps/mindtouch;
    index index.php;
    include mindtouch-rewrites;
  }

  location ~ \.php$ {
    root          /usr/share/webapps/mindtouch;
    fastcgi_pass  unix:/var/run/php-fpm/php-fpm.sock;
    fastcgi_buffers 256 4k;
    fastcgi_buffer_size 128k;
    include       fastcgi.conf;
  }

  location /@api/ {
    proxy_pass http://localhost:8081/;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $host:$server_port;
  }
}

• Edit the /etc/php/php.ini file, and ensure that the paths assigned to open_basedir contain the following:
  • /usr/share/webapps/
  • /etc/webapps/
  • /usr/bin

For instance:

open_basedir = /srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/usr/share/webapps:/etc/webapps:/usr/bin

• Restart Nginx and php-fpm if necessary, and open the relevant URL in your favourite web browser (e.g. http://mindtouch).

• Select "MindTouch Core", and proceed through the installation steps. Pay special attention to specifying localhost as the database host (instead of 127.0.0.1). This will ensure that the unix socket is used for communication with the database. By default, MySQL does not enable network access.

• After clicking "Install MindTouch", you should be taken to a confirmation page indicating that your MindTouch licence was successfully generated.

• Please ignore the instructions provided in the "You're not done yet!" section. Instead, perform the following commands, which achieve the same goal:

# mindtouch-install-config
# pacman -R mindtouch-setup

• If you have a remote MySQL server, you'll need to follow these additional steps:
  • Edit the /etc/webapps/mindtouch/mindtouch.deki.startup.xml file.
  • Search for the db-options configuration.
  • Remove the server=/var... key.
  • Replace Protocol=unix with Protocol=socket.

• Start the MindTouch API:

# /etc/rc.d/mindtouch start

• Click "Continue to MindTouch".

Installing or Removing Prince

MindTouch can be configured to start using Prince if it's installed after the MindTouch installation. It's also possible to remove Prince, in which case the PDF export option becomes unavailable in MindTouch.

• Install (or remove) the princexml package from the Arch User Repository.
• Edit the /etc/webapps/mindtouch/mindtouch.deki.startup.xml file.
• Find the princexml-path configuration tag.
• Set the content of the tag to be /usr/bin/prince, or remove it if you want to remove Prince.
• Restart the MindTouch API.

More Resources

• MindTouch Community Portal