This page explains how to download and install PmWiki 2.1 and 2.2. Here's a list of related pages:
- Requirements - Pre-requisites for running the PmWiki wiki engine
- Upgrades - How to upgrade an existing PmWiki installation
- Wiki Farms - Running multiple wikis from a single installation
- Change Log - Log of changes made to PmWiki by Release
Improvements to these instructions are always appreciated. Just report any problems you encounter to the pmwiki-users mailing list or use the PmWiki Issue Tracking System.
Installing PmWiki
If you upgrade, please read the page Upgrades and Release notes.
1. Download
Download the latest stable version of PmWiki as a
- zip archive (pmwiki-latest.zip), or a
- gzipped tarball (pmwiki-latest.tgz) from http://pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/, or
Download the latest beta version from the PmWiki:Subversion page.
2. Unpack
Unpack the archive (tar zxvf pmwiki-latest.tgz
or unzip pmwiki-latest.zip
). This will create a pmwiki-x.y.z directory containing the PmWiki software. For example, the current "latest" should unpack to a directory named pmwiki-2.2.63. The files in this directory include:
README.txt An introductory document pmwiki.php The main PmWiki script local/ Configuration scripts (local configuration files) cookbook/ Recipes (add-ons) from the Cookbook docs/ Brief documentation, sample configuration scripts pub/ Publicly accessible files pub/css/ Extra CSS stylesheet files [1] pub/guiedit/ pub/skins/ Layout templates for custom look and feel scripts/ Scripts that are part of PmWiki wikilib.d/ Bundled default PmWiki pages
The pmwiki-x.y.z directory needs to be placed into a location accessible by your webserver (e.g., in a public_html directory of some sort). You can place files and directories using a number of methods -- FTP, or a Unix mv
or cp
command generally does the job.
3. Create directories
In most cases PmWiki will do this for you. Open a web browser to the pmwiki.php script on the server (i.e., not the one on your local computer or accessed using a file://... URL). PmWiki will then analyze your system configuration and provide instructions (if needed) for creating the wiki.d/ directory which will be used to hold the pages created for your site.
Otherwise, there are two ways to achieve this. (Use Filezilla or WinSCP to change FTP file/folder permissions.)
chmod 777 wiki.d
"). Use this method when "safe mode" is activated in the server's PHP installation.
chmod 2777 .
chmod
command also works in many FTP programs. Creating
wiki.d/ in this manner will (1) make the directory writable so the web server can create the data directory it needs for the wiki files, (2) preserve group ownership of the directory so the installer account can manipulate the files created in this directory, and (3) make it more difficult for other accounts on the same server to access the files in
wiki.d/.
After establishing directory permissions, try opening a browser to the pmwiki.php script again. If all is well, the wiki.d directory will have been created and you'll see the default home page.
Important: If you used method 3b, you should reset permissions by executing "chmod 755 .
" in the directory containing pmwiki.php.
See also FilePermissions.
4. Initialize
Check out Initial Setup Tasks for other tasks you may want to perform to begin customizing your PmWiki installation. You might also want to peruse the Release Notes for further information.
5. Set language
If you want to use PmWiki in a different language download the international language pack as zip archive (i18n-all.zip) from http://pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/i18n/. Then extract it and copy the files into the wikilib.d/ directory as described above. Besides the -all file you can also download your country localization file only.