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://example.com:10000 (GUI is at port 10000)

Update your system to latest available packages

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

Installation of Tiki Manager

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

1. Install Tiki Manager :-
You can Install tiki-manager under any directory
Recomended Directory:- "home"

$ cd /home

$ mkdir tiki-manager

$ cd tiki-manager

$ git clone ––depth 1 ––branch master https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki-manager.git .

$ 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 Virtual Server

Virtualmin > Create Virtual Server

Domain name: Provide Domain To the virtual server
Administration password:Set a Strong Password

Create Tiki Instance through CLI

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/example/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 (http://example.com:10000 )

Webmin > Server > Mysql database server > user permission tab > Select user

• Set Password
• Give permission to all

and save it

After Successfully Creating tiki-instance

To complete the setup of the checked-out files, including fetching external libraries and setting permissions, run setup.sh, (in the tiki root ):

$ sh setup.sh

Regarding Composer, which is only needed to fetch external libraries when Tiki is being installed from the repository, use the option "c" after starting the setup.sh script:

Your choice [c or f]? c

TikiWiki Post Installation

Navigate in a web browser to: http://example.org/tiki-install.php

Now you will get the Welcome Page of the Tiki Wiki installer.

Configure SSL

Virtualmin > Server Configuration > SSL certificate> Lets encrypt > Request certificate

To access the administration
{http://example.com/tiki-admin.php}

Control Panels > Security > General security >"check" Protect all sessions with HTTPS > Apply the changes

Setup Mail

Virtualmin > Edit User > Add a new user to this server

Configure email account to Tiki's webmail

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

To access Control panel
https://example.com/tiki-admin.php

Control Panel > click on advance button > enable Webmail

or

To access Webmail

http://example.com/tiki-admin.php?page=webmail

IMAP
IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is a standard email protocol that stores email messages on a mail server, but allows the end user to view and manipulate the messages as though they were stored locally on the end user's computing device(s).

• 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