fosiki

Apr 15 2012

Foswiki 1.1.5 released – rpms, debs and usbstick ready

Tag: apache,centos,datawiki,debian,enterprise,foswiki,new,open source,perl,redhat,RPM,twiki,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 10:44 am

George has been leading the charge to a major bug fixing release of foswiki – we’ve resolved over 120 issues, and worked hard to improve security – dealing with some interesting cross site scripting issues found by ‘SonyStyles’, and then pushing on to harden the registration process to deal with spammers.

foswiki’s password system can now migrate your user’s password store to more modern encryption methods – the default that we shipped with Twiki can thus move from crypt to md5-apache.

4 days after the release, the installation and maintenance options for 1.1.5 have improved too:

my yum package repository (extensions too)
my debian package repository (extensions too)
my Foswiki on a USB stick for Windows
Oliver’s VirtualMachine

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Feb 22 2012

Centos yum install foswiki and Debian apt-get install foswiki

Tag: centos,debian,enterprise,foswiki,nextwiki,open source,perl,redhat,RPM,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 11:01 am

That’s right, on Redhat Enterprise and Centos, it’s now just as easy to install foswiki and its ~300 plugins as it is on Debian.

This means that you can now manage your Enterprise Foswiki using the same package management tools as the rest of the operating system.

For example, I just installed a demo system with:

yum install foswiki-jhotdrawplugin foswiki-ldapcontrib foswiki-newuserplugin foswiki-glueplugin foswiki-ldapngplugin foswiki-calendarplugin foswiki-edittableplugin foswiki-interwikiplugin foswiki-renderlistplugin foswiki-smiliesplugin foswiki-tableplugin foswiki-directedgraphplugin

and when yum finished, I browse to http://server/foswiki/ and its up and running.

These packages are built by a script that downloads the latest packages from http://foswiki.org/Extensions, generates an EPM manifest and then builds rpm packages – every night. I have not yet tested them with Redhat Enterprise 6 or fedora

To try it out, you’ll need to add the EPEL repository, and then this one to your yum config:

su
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
cd /etc/yum.repo.d/
wget http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_rpms/foswiki.repo

and then run

yum makecache

To see what foswiki extensions are available, run
yum search foswiki

To install foswiki, and some plugins:

yum install foswiki foswiki-workflowplugin foswiki-jscalendarcontrib foswiki-ldapcontrib

then browse to http://servername/foswiki/bin/configure to enable the plugin and configure settings.

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Apr 07 2011

Sharepoint 2007 to foswiki migration project part 1

Tag: datawiki,enterprise,foswiki,nextwiki,open source,sharepoint,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 3:24 pm

I’ve spent the last few days working on getting data out of Sharepoint Wiki, and its shocking. If you read the webservices API and believe it, things would be simple. Sadly, its got some pretty major bugs, and some pretty woeful architecture too.

The worst finding is that although Sharepoint lists have a webservice API to get versioned data, its broken – all versions of the MetaInfo return the text of the last revision. So I had to resort to brute force html GET’s and parsing the html to try to get the historical info.

Still, data gathered and saved – next week I’ll start trying to extract the valuable user written text from the masses of shoddy html (like in MS Word to html, every line is surrounded by the same 100 character css styles, setting font to Verdana etc.

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Aug 11 2010

Edit foswiki files in Microsoft Office

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 1:10 pm

Kontextwork WebDAV

Using the WebDAV for foswiki Extension, you can seamlessly edit Microsoft Office files in Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and then save directly back into the Wiki.

Using WebDAV, users can get direct access to Wiki topics and attachments, via the WebDAV URL – making it possible to attach documents by drag and dropping them directly in Windows Explorer.

Some technical details

WebDAV for foswiki requires advanced libraries on the server – including Apache 2 mod_perl support. For full integration mode, some trust settings need to be changed in Internet Explorer, or an extension installed to Firefox.

Required Perl modules and extensions

APR::Table
APR::UUID
Apache2::Access
Apache2::Const
Apache2::Module
Apache2::RequestIO
Apache2::RequestRec
Data::Dumper
Encode
File::Find::Rule::Filesys::Virtual
File::Spec
POSIX
URI
URI::Escape
XML::LibXML => than 1.64 (declaredPrefix function is needed)
XML::Simple
Filesys::Virtual
POSIX
File::Path
JSON

Foswiki::Plugins::JQueryPlugin

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Apr 17 2010

New Dynamic jquery mb.Menus for foswiki

Tag: foswiki,javascript,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 3:44 pm

I’ve just started work adding Matteo Bicocchi’s rather stunning mb.Components – starting with mb.Menu. Along the way, adding foswiki Macro’s to make it simpler for us to use, I’ve also made some changes to the code (which hopefully I can get integrated into an mb.Menu release) that I have attached to the live demo.

Here’s the all important Screenie:

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Dec 09 2009

foswiki for windows updated to version 1.0.8

Tag: enterprise,foswiki,new,nextwiki,open source,perl,twiki,twikiapplication,twikifork,wiki,wiki application,windows — Sven Dowideit @ 10:02 pm

I built and uploaded foswiki 1.0.8 installer for windows last night – hope you like it, cos i’ll be on holidays for a few days

For the last 2 weeks I’ve been working on an SAP connector for foswiki – I can display most SAP Tables, and call most SAP functions – all via ‘RFC’ – right now we’re working towards a proactive system healthcheck report, but it pretty much will allow us to build any SAP process right into foswiki. Cool huh.

and for fun I’ve been working on making a replacement DocumentGraphics icon set based on FamFamFamContrib for foswiki – the 10 year old hand drawn one really is dated.

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