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.

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 code

# Updates the list of available packages and their versions

apt-get update

# Installs newer versions of the packages you have

apt-get upgrade

Install some missing dependencies

# Install the required packages

sudo 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 composer php-bz2

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

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

sudo apt install apache2

sudo apt install mysql-server mysql-client

Installation of tiki-manager and composer

1. Install Tiki Manager :-

# 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

2. Install composer :-

curl https://getcomposer.org/composer.phar > composer.phar

php -r "copy('https://getcomposer.org/installer', 'composer-setup.php');"

apt install php-bz2

composer require symfony/finder

composer require symfony/console

php composer-setup.php

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