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MindTouch is an enterprise wiki and collaborative portal. For more information, see the [[Wikipedia:MindTouch Core|Wikipedia article]], and the [https://sourceforge.net/projects/dekiwiki/ SourceForge project]. | MindTouch is an enterprise wiki and collaborative portal. For more information, see the [[Wikipedia:MindTouch Core|Wikipedia article]], and the [https://sourceforge.net/projects/dekiwiki/ SourceForge project]. | ||
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** Edit the {{ic|/etc/webapps/mindtouch/mindtouch.deki.startup.xml}} file. | ** Edit the {{ic|/etc/webapps/mindtouch/mindtouch.deki.startup.xml}} file. | ||
** Search for the {{ic|db-options}} configuration. | ** Search for the {{ic|db-options}} configuration. | ||
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* Start the MindTouch API: | * Start the MindTouch API: |
Revision as of 15:50, 13 June 2012
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
andmindtouch-setup
packages. - If you would like to use Prince to allow PDF export, install the princexml package from the Arch User Repository.
Note: Although Prince is not free for commercial use, there is an explicit exception made for MindTouch, which allows it to be used for free, even if your MindTouch installation will be used for commercial purposes. (A note is added to the first page of every generated PDF.) Prince can also be installed at a later date if necessary.
- 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; } }
Note: The fastcgi buffer configuration is necessary, or certain MindTouch pages will cause a Bad Gateway error because the returned HTTP headers are too large for the default buffer size.
- Edit the
/etc/php/php.ini
file, and ensure that the paths assigned toopen_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
Note:
/usr/bin
is required because MindTouch needs to run certain external tools, such as /usr/bin/identify
(from ImageMagick). This is not a serious security risk, as the http
user is still not able to write to /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 of127.0.0.1
). This will ensure that the unix socket is used for communication with the database. By default, MySQL does not enable network access.
Note: If you have a remote MySQL installation, enter those details here, but be aware that further configuration will be required shortly, and this has not yet been tested with this package.
- 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
withProtocol=socket
.
- Edit the
- 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.