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How to install Pmwiki on OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 

To install Pmwiki on OpenSUSE Leap 42.3

PmWiki is a wiki-based content management system used for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. The web-pages created using PmWiki looks like normal web pages, but they also have the edit link to modify existing pages and add new pages in the website. It is very simple to install PmWiki on OpenSUSE leap 42.3 and this article covers the ground on the same process.

Requirements
-Apache
-Php7

Installing Pmwiki

If you want to download the installation package make sure you use the wget command.

linuxhelp:~ # wget http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-latest.zip
--2017-11-17 09:43:29--  http://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-latest.zip
Resolving www.pmwiki.org (www.pmwiki.org)... 74.200.73.219
Connecting to www.pmwiki.org (www.pmwiki.org)|74.200.73.219|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 574496 (561K) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ pmwiki-latest.zip’ 

100%[=========================================================================================================================================================================> ] 574,496     --.-K/s   in 0.02s   

2017-11-17 09:43:34 (29.6 MB/s) - ‘ pmwiki-latest.zip’  saved [574496/574496]

Once it is downloaded, you should extract the package in apache document root as follows.

linuxhelp:~ # unzip pmwiki-latest.zip -d /srv/www/htdocs/
Archive:  pmwiki-latest.zip
   creating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/
  inflating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/README.txt  
   creating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/cookbook/
  inflating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/cookbook/.htaccess  
  inflating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/pmwiki.php  
   creating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/pub/
   creating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/pub/css/
   creating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/pub/skins/
   creating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/pub/skins/pmwiki/
  inflating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/pub/skins/pmwiki/pmwiki.css  
  inflating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/pub/skins/pmwiki/README  
  inflating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/pub/skins/pmwiki/pmwiki.tmpl  
.
.
.
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inflating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/wikilib.d/PmWiki.SpecialCharacters  
  inflating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/wikilib.d/PmWiki.UploadVariables  
  inflating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/wikilib.d/PmWiki.SkinTemplates  
  inflating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/wikilib.d/PmWiki.BasicEditing  
  inflating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/wikilib.d/PmWiki.Uploads  
  inflating: /srv/www/htdocs/pmwiki-2.2.105/wikilib.d/SiteAdmin.GroupAttributes

After that, you should move inside the apache document root location. Run the following command for the same purpose.

linuxhelp:~ # cd /srv/www/htdocs/
linuxhelp:/srv/www/htdocs # ls -l
total 16
drwxrwxrwx 2 wwwrun www  4096 Oct  9 23:15 gif
-rwxrwxrwx 1 wwwrun www  2356 Mar 18  2017 info2html.css
drwxr-xr-x 8 root   root 4096 Nov  8 01:23 pmwiki-2.2.105

Later, you should rename the directory as per your convenience. Here the directory is renamed as pmwiki.
linuxhelp:/srv/www/htdocs # mv pmwiki-2.2.105 pmwiki
And then, provide appropriate owner permission  and file execution permission as follows. 
linuxhelp:/srv/www/htdocs # chown -R wwwrun:www /srv/www/htdocs/
linuxhelp:/srv/www/htdocs # chmod -R 777 /srv/www/htdocs/

Next, you should make a crucial step Apache configuration. So open the .conf by running the following command.

linuxhelp:/srv/www/htdocs # vim /etc/apache2/conf.d/pmwiki.conf

Add the following lines into the file.

< VirtualHost *:80> 
DocumentRoot " /srv/www/htdocs" 
ServerName www.linuxhelp1.com
< Directory " /srv/www/htdocs/" > 
DirectoryIndex index.php
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
< /Directory> 
< /VirtualHost>


Once it is done, you should restart your Apache service. 

linuxhelp:/srv/www/htdocs # systemctl restart apache

You should also do firewall configuration.

linuxhelp:/srv/www/htdocs # vim /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2
FW_CONFIGURATIONS_EXT=" apache"

Let us now continue the procedure via GUI. So, switch to your browser and type http://yourdomain on the URL field. The home page of PmWiki appears on screen.

You can edit Main.HomePage.

In this page, you get to know how to create pages.


With this, the installation of Pmwiki comes to an end.

Tag : OpenSUSE - Leap
FAQ
Q
How do I create a link that will open as a new window?
A
A key feature of wiki-based systems is the ease of creating hyperlinks (or short links) in the text of a document. PmWiki provides multiple mechanisms for creating such links.
Q
How can I preserve line-breaks from the source text?
A
PmWiki normally treats consecutive lines of text as being a paragraph, and merges and wraps lines together on output. This is consistent with most other wiki packages. An author can use the (:linebreaks:) directive to cause the following lines of markup text in the page to be kept as separate lines in the output.
Q
What is the PmWiki?
A
PmWiki is a wiki-based system for collaborative creation and maintenance of websites. See PmWiki.
Q
I got forbitten error while calling in browser. What is the problem ?
A
check the permission and ownership of documentroot directory
Q
while calling in browser. I got only blank page . What can I do ?
A
check for php and php modules are installed properlly