wiki | fosiki - Part 4

Apr 27 2009

Foswiki night builds of trunk and Release01x00 branch

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application — Sven Dowideit @ 5:37 pm

I’ve just (finally) set up the auto unit test run, PerlCritic and release build for the Release01x00 branch, and fixed the trunk builder.

Foswiki trunk gets built every 6 hours, and Release01x00 every 12 (based on my Sydney TZ).

If the unit tests fail, and email will be sent to the foswiki-discuss mailing list – no news is good news. See the build output areas:

where you will find the output log files, the built tar.gz and zip files and each of the component packages that make up a release.

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Apr 21 2009

new FugueIconsContrib

Tag: foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application — Sven Dowideit @ 10:11 pm

I created the FamFamFamContrib Icons package for T(m)wiki and Foswiki a year or three ago, and now have added a FugueIconsContrib package today – containing the fabulous iconset by Yusuke Kamiyamane.

Now we have 2 possible icon sets to replace the very odd and aging DocumentGraphics topic – the only thing holding us back is a mapping from the old %ICON{}% names to new.

I’ll dig up the work I did last year some time and see if we can finish it

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Apr 16 2009

Howto protect foswiki attachments without slowdown

Tag: enterprise,environment,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikifork,wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 10:36 pm

I was just asked on IRC how to protect some attachments without forcing all requested attachments to go through the viewfile cgi script (as that causes your foswiki images and css to load incredibly slowly), and here’s the howto I answered with:

I coded foswiki 1.0′s viewfile script to work as an apache ErrorDocument, so If you can find a way to trigger a 404 or 401 error, you can get apache to run viewfile -

ErrorDocument 404 /foswiki/bin/viewfile
ErrorDocument 401 /foswiki/bin/viewfile

If you place your pub dir somewhere outside where apache serves files and then softlink the non-protected webs into apache’s path (so it serves them full speed), then the secured webs will generate a 404, triggering the viewfile ErrorDocument – which will thus serve the file only to authenticated users

This will work irrespective of the authentication choices in your foswiki setup – and as the files that require securing are outside apache’s file serving areas, can be considered as secure as possible.

As an added bonus, any request to a file that does not exist will show a foswiki error page, rather than a static html.

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Mar 23 2009

Foswiki 1.1 Admin dashboard preview

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application — Sven Dowideit @ 1:34 pm

I’ve been working on expanding the use of Foswiki Applications and in the process began to build (using TML) a much more usable user interface for configuring and managing your Foswiki.

So – to the picture show

Easy to access over-view

Quickly customise your Foswiki site.

Admin friendly selection of visual settings

Many of these features already do work in Foswiki 1.0.4 – by installing FoswikiApplications Contrib, but they are a work in progress – and getting more advanced every week.

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Mar 20 2009

Foswiki 1.0.4 released – OSX, Windows and Debian installers ready too

Tag: debian,enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 8:33 pm

Foswiki 1.0.4 has been released with more than 100 bug fixes and some small enhancements. Upgrading is highly recommended. If you did not upgrade from TWiki yet, now is a good time as Foswiki 1.0.4 fixes more around 300 bugs relative to TWiki 4.2.4.

Grab it now from : http://foswiki.org/Download/WebHome – the straight and upgrade archives, OSX installer and my Windows Installers are here.

My debian package repository now spans Foswiki 1.0.4 and 168 Foswiki extensions – its never been easier to install

see http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian

Over the 4 months of our project’s existence, 33 developers have been involved in making ~3000 commits – next up, the future !

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Jan 14 2009

debian repository for Foswiki

Tag: debian,enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki — Sven Dowideit @ 12:18 am

I’ve set up a debian repository that you can help test the release package before it gets uploaded into debian proper.

To try it out, add the following to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/ stable main contrib deb-src http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/ stable main contrib

and then run

gpg --keyserver the.earth.li --recv-keys 379393E0AAEE96F6 apt-key add /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg

OR (if theearth.li doesn’t work for you) wget http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/FoswikiReleaseGpgKey.asc apt-key add FoswikiReleaseGpgKey.asc

apt-get update

apt-get install apache2 foswiki

This repository contains about 281 (Apr2011) foswiki-extensions – auto updated nightly direct from foswiki.org. The packages have as many dependencies as I was able to coerce my build scripts to work out – but there is more work needed.

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