History: How to install WikiSuite

How To Install Virtualmin

You should have a fresh instance of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It is important that nothing else is installed on the server because Virtualmin will handle it. We'll use https://gitlab.com/wikisuite/virtualmin-installer/ to install Virtualmin which is then configured for optimal settings for WikiSuite.

Install Webmin and Virtualmin on Ubuntu OS :-
Download Virtualmin using the below script. It is basically a shell script that will handle rest of the installation once executed.

Log in to your server via SSH with the root user. (If you are not logged in as root, you should switch to root)

Then run

# Run this Command on Terminal

curl -o install-virtualmin.sh https://gitlab.com/wikisuite/virtualmin-installer/-/raw/master/install-virtualmin.sh

bash install-virtualmin.sh

# A web URL will be provided after installation is complete, you can access the Virtualmin by the provided URL Ex:- https://00.000.000.000:10000

Update your system to latest available packages

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

Install some missing dependencies

# Install the required packages

apt install php php-tidy php-pear php-gd php-xmlrpc php-mbstring libapache2-mod-php php-mysql php-apcu php-curl php-intl php-sqlite3 php-zip php-memcache php-pspell php-zip php-memcached php-pear php-common php-intl php7.4-opcache php-xml php-zip php-bz2

apt-get install git unzip sqlite3 php php-pdo rsync

apt install curl memcached poppler-utils bsdmainutils catdoc elinks man-db odt2txt pstotext unzip

apt install apache2

apt install mysql-server mysql-client

Installation of Tiki Manager

For more info, please see: https://doc.tiki.org/Manager

1. Install Tiki Manager :-
to do: provide guidance on where to set up Tiki Manager. Should it be in a Virtualmin virtual server?

# Create a directory called tiki-manager (you can pick another name)
  $ mkdir tiki-manager
# Move into this new directory
  $ cd tiki-manager
# Fetch Tiki Manager directly from sources. The last period/dot (.) indicates to put files in current directory (vs creating a new directory)
  git clone - - depth 1 - -branch master https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki-manager.git .
# Then run the following. On first run, it will finish the setup (Fetch Composer and get PHP dependencies, Create the SQLite database, etc.)
  $ php tiki-manager.php manager:info

When asked "Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):", just click "Enter" unless you know that you need a passphrase (probably not)

Create Tiki Instance through CLI

1. Create Domain

2.Create virtual server with same domain name via Virtualmin

instance:create

• creates a fresh Tiki instance (including a database) fetching files from Git

php tiki-manager.php instance:create ––type=local  ––Web Url=http://manager.tiki.org ––name=manager.tiki.org ––email=manager@example.org ––webroot=/home/client1/public_html ––tempdir=/tmp/trim_temp ––branch=branches/21.x  ––backup-user=www-data ––backup-group=www-data ––backup-permission=777 ––db-host=localhost ––db-user=root ––db-pass=secret ––db-prefix=manager

Database setup(do this setup after selecting branch while creating instance)

• Go to virtualmin (0.0.0.0:10000 )
• select webmin (Alt+W)
• Select servers tab
• Select mysql database server
• Go to user permission tab

• Select user tab
• Give permission to all

and save it

Configure SSL

• Go to virtualmin
• select Server Configuration tab
• Select ssl certificate
  • Go to lets encrypt tab
  • Select Request certificate

• once done
• go to (tiki-admin.php) page
  • Control Panels
    • Select Security tab
    • General security tab
    • 'check' Protect all sessions with HTTPS
    • and Apply the changes

Setup Mail

• Create Mail Account via Virtualmin
• Login in Virtualmin
• go to edit user section and
• add a user to this server

Configure email account to Tiki's webmail

• Go to Control Panel in tiki-admin Page
• click on advance button and enable webmail
• open webmail

• add imap server to receive emails
• provide account name and imap server address then provide user credential
• add smtp server to send email

• go to Tiki-manager folder and uncomment the below line in .env file

SMTP_HOST=
SMTP_PORT=
SMTP_USER=
SMTP_PASS=

For host name follow Setup Mail step: 4 .ie. @client1.vmi458927.wikisuite.net
port no:465
User:client
Pass:secret

• Provide the credential and save it