How to Install Tiki Wiki CMS on Ubuntu 19.04

Installation of Tiki Wiki CMS on Ubuntu 19.04

Tiki Wiki is a free and open source Wiki-based Content Management System written in PHP. It contains a number of collaboration features and acts as a Geospatial Content Management System (GeoCMS). It also contains some basic features of a CMS and maintains individual user accounts within a flexible and rich privilege system, RSS feeds and customize page layout. In this tutorial, we will cover the installation of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware on Ubuntu 19.04.

Requirements for Tiki Wiki CMS:

Apache

MySQL

PHP and its modules

(php php-xml php-mysql php-mbstring php-zip php-soap php-curl php-gd php-ldap php-imap php-common php-dev libmcrypt-dev php-pear)

Installation procedure

Before you begin the installation process, Check the Ubuntu version by using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 19.04
Release:	19.04
Codename:	disco

Configure the MySQL database. Log into MySQL as a root user and make the necessary settings.

root@linuxhelp:~# mysql -u root -p
Enter password: 
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 4
Server version: 5.7.26-0ubuntu0.19.04.1 (Ubuntu)

Copyright (c) 2000, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its
affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective
owners.

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.

mysql> create database tiki;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec)

mysql> create user 'tikiuser'@localhost identified by 'Linuxc#4';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.09 sec)

mysql> grant all privileges on tiki.* to 'tikiuser'@localhost;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> flush privileges;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.07 sec)

mysql> exit
Bye

Once the database configuration is done, Download the installation package of Tiki Wiki CMS by using the wget command. The link is given in the command.

root@linuxhelp:~# wget https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/tikiwiki/Tiki_18.x_Alcyone/18.2/tiki-18.2.zip
--2019-05-09 14:41:31--  https://excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net/project/tikiwiki/Tiki_18.x_Alcyone/18.2/tiki-18.2.zip
Resolving excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net (excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net)... 202.153.32.19
Connecting to excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net (excellmedia.dl.sourceforge.net)|202.153.32.19|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 53235353 (51M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘tiki-18.2.zip’

tiki-18.2.zip               100%[==========================================>]  50.77M   342KB/s    in 2m 46s  

2019-05-09 14:44:20 (313 KB/s) - ‘tiki-18.2.zip’ saved [53235353/53235353]

Once the download is completed extract the downloaded package using unzip command.

root@linuxhelp:~# unzip tiki-18.2.zip 
Archive:  tiki-18.2.zip
   creating: tiki-18.2/
  inflating: tiki-18.2/tiki-print_pages.php  
  inflating: tiki-18.2/tiki-list_trackers.php  
  inflating: tiki-18.2/tiki-file_archives.php  
  inflating: tiki-18.2/tiki-user_assigned_modules.php  
  inflating: tiki-18.2/tiki-assignuser.php  
.
.
.
  inflating: tiki-18.2/vendor_extra/anythingslider-themes/images/polished.png  
   creating: tiki-18.2/vendor_extra/webodf/
  inflating: tiki-18.2/vendor_extra/webodf/webodf.js  
  inflating: tiki-18.2/vendor_extra/index.php  
  inflating: tiki-18.2/tiki-minichat_ajax.php  

Move the Tiki Wiki cms directory to apache root directory

root@linuxhelp:~# mv tiki-18.2 /var/www/tiki

root@linuxhelp:~# chown -R www-data.www-data /var/www/tiki
root@linuxhelp:~# chmod -R 755 /var/www/tiki

root@linuxhelp:~# vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/tiki.conf
<Virtualhost *:80>
        Servername www.linuxhelp1.com
        Documentroot /var/www/tiki
<directory /var/www/tiki>
allowoverride all
allow from all
</directory>
</Virtualhost>

root@linuxhelp:~# a2dissite 000-default.conf
Site 000-default disabled.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

root@linuxhelp:~# a2ensite tiki.conf
Enabling site tiki.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl reload apache2

root@linuxhelp:~# a2enmod rewrite
Enabling module rewrite.
To activate the new configuration, you need to run:
  systemctl restart apache2

root@linuxhelp:~# systemctl restart apache2