I’ve been using wiki’s for some time from phpwiki, mediawiki, etc.  They all have some pro’s and con’s.  I still like the php wiki, twiki, very much, and the java wiki, JSPWiki, but I have also grown to like XWIKI, http://xwiki.org.

It is a tomcat driven wiki with all the data in mysql, instead of txt files like the aforementioned wiki’s.  This makes for good security, backup, recovery, etc.  Albeit it does seem to run a little slower.  Below are my basic install notes, enjoy…

Install Tomcat

wget http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/apache/tomcat/tomcat-5/v5.5.27/bin/apache-tomcat-5.5.27.tar.gz tar -xzf apache-tomcat-5.5.27.tar.gz mv apache-tomcat-5.5.27 /opt/tomcat-5.5 echo “export CATALINA_HOME=/opt/tomcat-5.5” >> ~/.bashrc echo “CATALINA_BASE=/opt/tomcat-5.5”  >> ~/.bashrc adduser tomcat chown -R tomcat.tomcat tomcat-5.5 su – tomcat cd /opt/tomcat-5.5/bin sh startup.sh

or yum install tomcat

Install XWIKI

su – tomcat cd /opt/tomcat-5.5/ cd webapps/

download and move to this directory webapps xwiki-enterprise-web-1.9.3.war from http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download

chown tomcat.tomcat xwiki-enterprise-web-1.7.2.war mkdir xwiki mv xwiki-enterprise-web-1.7.2.war xwiki cd xwiki/ unzip xwiki-enterprise-web-1.7.2.war cd WEB-INF/ nano -w xwiki.cfg – Set xwiki.store.hibernate.path /opt/tomcat5-5.5/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml – Set xwiki.home

Create MYSQL DB

mysql -u root -e “create database xwiki” mysql -u root -e “grant all privileges on xwiki.* to xwiki@127.0.0.1 identified by ‘xwiki(or some pass)'” mysql –version -dowload mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar and move to  /opt/tomcat-5.5/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/lib/ mysql -u xwiki  -p xwiki -h 127.0.0.1 < mycommands.sql

cd /opt/tomcat-5.5/webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/ nano -w hibernate.cfg.xml – Edit section for mysql

Set Permissions on the xwiki folder

cd xwiki/ rm xwiki-enterprise-web-1.7.2.war cd .. chown -R tomcat.tomcat xwiki

LDAP Authentication settings in xwiki.cfg for Windows AD

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LDAP

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-# new LDAP authentication service

xwiki.authentication.authclass=com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.LDAP.XWikiLDAPAuthServiceImpl

-# Turn LDAP authentication on – otherwise only XWiki authentication

-# 0: disable

-# 1: enable

xwiki.authentication.ldap=1

-# LDAP Server (Active Directory, eDirectory, OpenLDAP, etc.)

xwiki.authentication.ldap.server=(Set server IP) xwiki.authentication.ldap.port=389 xwiki.authentication.ldap.check_level=1

-# LDAP login, empty = anonymous access, otherwise specify full dn

-# {0} is replaced with the username, {1} with the password

xwiki.authentication.ldap.base_DN=dc=insource,dc=local xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_DN=ADDOMAIN\useraccount xwiki.authentication.ldap.bind_pass=password xwiki.authentication.ldap.UID_attr=sAMAccountName xwiki.authentication.ldap.fields_mapping=name=sAMAccountName,last_name=sn,first_name=givenName,fullname=displayName,mail=mail,ldap_dn=dn

-# Force to check password after LDAP connection

-# 0: disable

-# 1: enable

xwiki.authentication.ldap.validate_password=0

Apache

Using Proxy Pass Tomcat port through Apache or use with https Put the below in your .conf file in conf.d

ProxyRequests       Off ProxyPreserveHost On ProxyPass           /xwiki       http://127.0.0.1:8080/xwiki ProxyPassReverse    /xwiki      http://127.0.0.1:8080/xwiki

Follow UP

Download and import the workspace after setup for templates, etc. xwiki-workspaces-wiki-1.1.1.xar