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Operating System independence

Most Tiki installations are on Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP. However, Tiki runs on more than just Linux. You can run it anywhere PHP can run. However, it is not as well tested and you may run into minor issues.

Starting with 5.x, Tiki is available in the Microsoft Web App Gallery at:
http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/Tiki.aspx
The installation is automated and generally reliable.

Related: Database Independence, Browser Compatibility

Windows compatibility project

Who

  • Greg Martin
  • Marc Laporte
  • Jimmy Gilbert
  • Chris Tingle
  • You? We are looking for volunteers.



What

  1. A large number proportion of forum posts are related to IIS or Windows hosting issues and many more are reported below.
  2. It is thought that most are various symptoms of a small number of real issues. These issues are presumed easy to fix. These problems are typically path issues. This apparently was working well in 1.9.x and possibly some problems appeared in 2.x. So we should test side by side 1.9.x, 2.x and 3.x to detect issues.
  3. Most of the active developers in Tiki use Linux and thus Windows issues are not naturally detected and solved.
  4. There are various hacks/recipes to make Tiki work in various environments. These should be checked and added to the main code base.


Why

Some corporate environments require that web apps run on Windows. So, in these cases, adding a LAMP server is not practical. Tiki gains to have higher adoption by working on more platforms.

Priorities

Please re-order this list! (It's just a first draft for now)

  1. WinXP + XAMPP works Install Tiki on XAMPP
  2. WinXP + EasyPHP works (Windows Local Install EasyPhp

  3. Win2008 Server, Apache, MySQL
  4. Win2008 Server, IIS, MySQL Windows Server Install
  5. Win2003 Server, IIS, MySQL (I submit that with Xampp there is already a workable solution for Apache)
  6. Win2003 Server, Apache, MySQL (seems to work fine)
  7. Standard shared Windows hosting like GoDaddy, etc.


Related links

http://tiki.org/tiki-browse_categories.php?parentId=70

Keep web.config and .htaccess synchronized

The web_config file for IIS needs to be kept in sync with _htaccess (for Apache). Most modifications are done to htaccess.

To convert rules from Apache to IIS, see Importing Apache mod_rewrite Rules if you're on Windows and Translate .htaccess Content to IIS web.config for examples. https://azureossd.github.io/2015/09/28/convert-apache-htaccess-to-iis-web-config/

If you are adding (or otherwise modifying the configuration) for one of the servers and can't do it for the other, add an entry here pointing to your commit that needs to be ported to the other server.


Starting in Tiki11, with route.php, this will become trivial.

Web App Gallery

Microsoft provides for automatic installs of PHP, MySQL & Tiki. We maintain the Tiki install for them. It's a quick way to get running on IIS.

Related interview at Confoo 2010

Improve the documentation

Specific Windows install guides should be made if necessary

Contest

http://www.phponwindows.ca/ftw/

TRIM via FTP

TRIM will work with FTP somewhere during the Summer of 2009. now works with FTP. This will be yet another thing to make it easier to manage Tiki on Windows.

Items on wishlist

Open

Pending

Closed

Rating Subject Submitted By Importance Easy to solve ? Priority Category Volunteered to solve Created Modified
(0) _htaccess should know which version of Tiki it is for Marc Laporte 9 high 8 72
  • Feature request
  • Less than 30-minutes fix
 koth 25 Dec 09 16 Apr 12
(0) Wrong path with additional slash on IIS installs in document root SMaton 9 high 45 13 Feb 09 25 May 10
(0) Incorrect URLs on IIS installs in document root thebookdoc 9 high 45 Chealer9 06 Jan 09 15 May 10
(0) Tiki Installer Security Precaution on Windows installing in document root sipiptel 8 40 Chealer9 30 Jan 10 09 Jul 10
(0) MySQL-Errors approve+staging walklife 7 35 walklife 29 Jul 08 06 Jul 24
(0) Crash on a replication of site from Unix to Windows - and windows installation Bernard TREMBLAY 7 35
  • Error
  • Conflict of two features (each works well independently)
 07 Feb 10 06 Jul 24
(0) Button links broken on IIS installation clicc 7 35 Chealer9 15 May 09 25 May 10
(0) installation issues with v2.0 and MSSQL backend GrayMatter 7 35 08 Sep 08 08 Aug 09
(0) Incorrect base path detected when installing on IIS (Directory does not exist errors) wondertrout 6 30 Chealer9 25 Sep 08 23 Sep 11
(0) 404 Error instead of "Create Page" with unknown Wiki-page-name with IIS amette 7 4 28
  • Error
  • Usability
 Chealer9 07 Oct 05 09 Mar 10
(0) twversion.class.php causes PHP-Error in Windows-Server nobody? 5 25 25 Jul 08 10 May 10
(0) Themes don't work on Windows server Gary Cunningham-Lee 5 25 chibaguy 10 Apr 08 13 Feb 09
(0) FCKEditor missing tikiwiki toolbar asphaltjesus 25 25 Apr 08 06 Jul 24
(0) On Windows, generating custom theme files with npm produces generated output in two places Gary Cunningham-Lee 7 3 21
  • Usability
 kambereBr 26 Apr 24 07 Dec 25
(0) USB key version of Tiki Marc Laporte 4 20 11 Jul 07 06 Apr 11
(0) TikiWiki crashing Apache HamletCygar 4 20 HamletCygar 22 Feb 07 08 Mar 10
(0) Spelling error in dev Report a Bug page: SEWilco 3 15 28 Jul 08 13 Aug 08
(0) RSS feed broken by backslash if tw in root of subdomain felix hruschka 2 10 Chealer9 27 Oct 06 25 May 10
(0) Images don't appear to some people when using GD on Windows server (weird) Marc Laporte 1 low 5 06 Feb 08 23 Sep 11
(0) Trailing backslash at domain in URLs when installed in DocumentRoot stefricht 1 low 5 Chealer9 15 Dec 08 25 May 10

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