How to Install Twiki in Ubuntu 14.04.02 LTS

What is TWiki?

TWiki is a Perl-based structured wiki application typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal.

Users can create wiki pages using the TWiki Markup Language, and developers can extend wiki application functionality with plugins.

The TWiki project was founded by Peter Thoeny in 1998 as an open source wiki-based application platform.

In October 2008, the company TWiki.net, created by Thoeny, assumed full control over the TWiki project while much of the developer community forked off to join the Foswiki project.

Prerequisite

Packages you need to install

sudo apt-get install rcs

Check perl version on your machine.

/usr/bin/perl -v

It works well if you see the following words on your terminal.

This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi (with 41 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) Copyright 1987-2013, Larry Wall

Installation

Download the 6.0.1 version of Twiki:

wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/twiki/TWiki%20for%20all%20Platforms/TWiki-6.0.1/TWiki-6.0.1.tgzr=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Ftwiki%2Ffiles%2FTWiki%2520for%2520all%2520Platforms%2FTWiki-6.0.1%2F&ts=1419896584&use_mirror=superb-dca3" -O Twiki-6.0.1.tgz `

Unzip the package:

tar -xvf Twiki-6.0.1.tgz

Copy the entire Twiki package to the Apache directory in Ubuntu

sudo cp twiki/ /var/www/html/ -r

Give the root access to the user:

sudo chown www-data /var/www/html/twiki -R
sudo chgrp www-data /var/www/html/twiki -R

Create the LocalLib.cfg. One simple way is to copy LocalLib.cfg.txt as LocalLib.cfg:

cd /var/www/html/twiki/bin
sudo cp LocalLib.cfg.txt LocalLib.cfg
sudo vim LocalLib.cfg

If you put twiki under /var/www/html/twiki，you need to change:

$twikiLibPath = "/var/www/html/twiki/lib";

Set up Apache

under the /var/www/html/twiki/bin, we need to do:

cd /var/www/html/twiki/bin
sudo cp .htaccess.txt .htaccess

Set up Apache

cd /etc/apache2/conf-available

Vim a new file called twiki.conf:

sudo vim twiki.conf

Copy everything you have done to this file and save

Link the twiki.conf file:

cd .. 
cd conf-enabled
sudo ln -s ../conf-available/twiki.conf twiki.conf

Restart the Apache

sudo a2enmod rewrite cgi

Under /etc/apache2/ to find apache2.conf and rewrite:

<Directory /var/www>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All   
Require all granted
</Directory>

Restart the Apache service

sudo service apache2 restart

Go to your broswer and find http://yourserveraddress/twiki/bin/configure

Reset the password

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