See /Configuration for help with some configuration options (and links to more help). For older questions and answers, check here:
Q: How can I insure that new and edited pages save on the first try? (Dec 19, 2008)
Sometimes when I try to save a page, I get this message:
![[Home]](/wiki.gif)
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage
Most likely causes:
You are not connected to the Internet.
The website is encountering problems.
There might be a typing error in the address.
I repeat the save request until the page actually gets saved. My computer has an Athlon 2400+ CPU and 512 mb RAM and two 40 gig internal hard drives, Both hard drives have about 24 gig available space. I run Windows XP Pro, UseMod 1.0, ActivePerl 5.6.1.638, and the server is TinyWeb 1.93. My wiki has 4,540 pages (so far). The names of about half of these pages start with a string of numerals.
The problem occurs even when the size of the page in rather small.
The problem is intermittent. A very long page sometimes will save on the first try, or it may take more than 30 tries before the page saves. Even a smallish page may take many tries before it saves.
I have deleted the old diff_log and rclog files, but that did not help.
Anybody have any ideas how to solve this problem?
Thanks,
Ward Passel
Hello Ward, how big is the page and the keep file? The later one may be the problem. -- MarkusLude
Hello Marcus,
Thanks for the response!
The page folder is 32.4 MB and has 4,596 files in 30 subfolders. The keep file is 13.3 MB, in 27 subfolders.
The folder a page goes in when it finally saves seems to be irrelevant to the problem.
Page folder Info: Its smallest subfolder is empty. Its "other" folder is, by far, its largest, at 18.1 MB, 2,136 files.
Keep folder Info: Its smallest subfolder is also empty. Its "other" folder is, also, its largest by far, at 6.98 MB, 933 files.
Ward
PROBLEM SOLVED: June 29, 2009: I changed browsers a few days ago, from Internet Explorer to Firefox, and a lot of testing indicates that the problem has disappeared!
Ward
Q: Can Google AdSense work with UseMod? (2008-10-25)
Hey all, hope this isn't an inappropriate place for this question, but I didn't get any helpful answers on the Google forum. I'm trying to set up Google AdSense authentication so its bot can crawl my wiki, which is password-protected by an Apache .htaccess file (basic auth). But AdSense is generating bad URLs: it's logging in OK, but what it does with the URL I provide is the problem: in my server logs, I'm seeing things like
GET /cgi-bin/wiki.pl?username=xxxxx&password=yyyyy
which gags UseMod and draws an "Invalid URL" error message. To make things worse, as far as I can tell, Google's "login" query string there replaces any other query string in my URL, which of course will make it impossible to crawl UseMod since UseMod uses the query string to specify the page.
Has anyone gotten this to work? TIA... Mark
Could Local:WikiPatches/RssInclusion add more items like authors? 2008-03-02
Thanks -JuanmaMP
A:
my $wikins = 'http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/wiki/';
my $rdfns = 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#';
$str .= QuoteHtml(qq{ $i->{'dc:contributor'}});
my $contributor = $i->{dc}->{contributor};
$contributor = $i->{$wikins}->{username} unless $contributor;
$contributor =~ s/^\s+//;
$contributor =~ s/\s+$//;
$contributor = $i->{$rdfns}->{value} unless $contributor;
$str .= $q->span({-class=>'contributor'}, $q->span(T(' . . . . ')) . $contributor) if $contributor;
Do you know when the system does crash with big .kp pages? how Mb? Any experience?
Thanks -JuanmaMP
My web host's server went down with my wiki on it, and all the permissions are screwed up... I have set old pages (which have my uid) to 666, which works fine, but I find that new pages show up with uid and gid of 99, and the permissions are rw-r--r--. First, I'd like the owner and group for new pages to be myself, rather than 99, and the host support people are looking into this. Is this likely to be a new policy on their part? Also, is it hard (for them or me) to change? If it is, should I go the other way and change all the old pages to uid and gid of 99? Also, why do they default to rw-r--r-- - shouldn't it be rw-rw-rw-?
Generally, is there a place where all the permissions for temp, lock, etc. are listed? I couldn't find it in FAQ. Thanks. PaulMorrison
uid and gid are dependent on your web server configuration. You may consult your local admin for this. Access right rw-r--r-- may be enough, but this depends of the files are written as the uid of the running web server or your one. Usemod doesn't change any permissions. They were set from system or web server defaults. 666 should be unneccessary, 664 or 644 should be enough for the files -- MarkusLude
In WikiPatches/SourceHighlight appears this expression:
eval { open( CMD, "$this_cmd < $tmp_file |" ) || die $! };
It seems don't work fine in my windows system.
I guess it need syntax for calls to command line for windows environment.
Thanks in advance.
I'd like to install a Usemod wiki on my site.
Q: I'd like to know if I can make certain pages non readable and accessible via a password. It is for private conversations, mostly.
Thanks!
A:
(DB)
The Usemod WikiEngine? doesn't support read permission for certain pages, but you could restrict read access by the usual methods of your web server.
(DB) Or use a program like HT Access. Thanks Markus for a very satisfactory answer. Keep up the good work!
If you have further questions you may put them on UserHelp.
Q: How do I set up multiple wikis on the same computer? Is this possible?
Q: How do I upload a UseMod wiki to the internet using my own domain?
& also, I am now getting this error message on my wiki when trying to edit my username in preferences - I wasn't getting it before...
Software error:
Could not get user-ID lock at /Library?/WebServer?/CGI-Executables/wiki.pl line 3694.
Please help!
Which operating system do you use? What did you change since it was working last time? It looks like the web server can't write the lockfile. You may look in the DataDir and remove the directory temp/main/.
Question: My page/ directory is almost empty, but I have all the pages in html/. Some how my page/ files got lost. How can I recreate the wiki versions(page/$ALPHA/$file.db) from the html files(html/$ALPHA/$file.htm)? I know I cant recreate the revision history, but that is fine.
Why not restore them from a backup? Were the files deleted by accident from the shell or from the script?
Follow up to response:
I rely on netapp snapshots, and they go back a week, and from the looks of it, this problem has existed for awhile. Everything is ok with the wiki site as long as no editing is done. Once editing is done, the site is broken in terms that the wiki is only aware of a handful of files and all links break. If I restore, and no editing is done, all links work(since I have the html). But once an edit is done, all links are lost except to a handful of pages. So, does anyone know how to recreate the wiki page/$alpha/$file.db files from the html? I tried some perl mods but they wouldnt dump out the actual contents of the html(only the header and footer, but not the body).
And how to handle the links to uploades files which names are in pascalcase??
e.g. upload:ChiHuaha?.jpg
Thanks for help! I'm new to UseMod but it looks great.
-- chris
Q: Can Somebody... save changes (i.e 'test') at https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?JuanmaMP? in my case always returns to the previous version. Thanks in advance.
A: Yes I could. Did you add or delete several urls?
Thanks, Markus. (It turned me crazy). Yes, I added or deleted several urls.
Some time ago code to deal with MeatBall:ShotgunSpam was added to the running wiki script, but no newer version than 1.0 was released.
i am trying to build a repository of document templates, and the structure looks something like the following:
my problem is that when i create /install under document_templates/windows, it is really document_templates/install, and not document_templates/windows/install which means that when i try to create document_templates/aix/install which will have different information, they conflict.
unfortunately the second option here will most definitely not work, as in the notes section it explicitly says: This does not allow usemod SubPages to be deeper than usual (2 levels), this hierarchy is independent of the subpages. This patch can be used to organize the normally "flat" wiki pages into a tree. i am interpreting this to mean i cannot have more than one /windows link under document_templates.
i'm trying to figure out exactly what the first patch linked here does. the description is very difficiult to decipher.
sub DoOtherRequest { my ($id, $action, $text, $search);
--JuanmaMP
A: No, it's superfluous. It's safe to remove it. -- UngarPeter
Thxs --JuanmaMP
Answering my own question: Build 815 (based on Perl 5.7.x) works fine. Build 816 (based on Perl 5.8.x) gives this error, at least under the above conditions. So problem temporarily "solved".
Addition: Jan 07. Had to upgrade Perl. To keep life simple, switched from Tiny web server to Abyss web server, which was almost as easy to set up and work very well with the latest build 819.
Q: When I try wiki.pl?action=rss, I get a page titled "Internal Server Error", and the text says "CGI script cgi-bin/wiki.pl returned nothing". I am running UseModWiki version 1.0. Recent changes and View other revisions and Diff all work fine, though. Is there a way to step through the code and find out what is going wrong? Thanks!!!
Have you tried looking at the error log of your web server? It has a useful hint sometimes. Also, try running the script directly with action=http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/rss supplied as a parameter. Is it the standard usemod 1.0 script, or a modified version?
I have this problem with the standard issue wiki.pl as well. I just tried running wiki.pl action=http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/rss from the command prompt, and there is no error, I get a file that looks like rss output (has content-type: text/xml, and some rdf format notations, etc.). Maybe it is a problem with tiny, the web server I am running ? The errorlog is an empty file, so I guess errors are not being recorded from some (unrelated) reason. The access log is being updated, though, will that help ? Maybe I can send you the output of wiki.pl action=http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/rss ... thanks for the help !!
Could you increase the log level to get more infos?
I cant see how.. TinyWeb does not have any way to change these things. I have written to the author. Maybe I should upgrade my webserver. One other thing though: the page generated by action=http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/rss has a Content-type: text/xml header followed by a blank line.. Firefox will not load this xml file without error. I removed the line in DoRss? that says "print "Content-type: text/xml\n\n";" and now the output of action=http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/rss loads correctly in Firefox. Of course, all this is when I run wiki.pl action=http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/rss >test.xml from the command prompt and then load test.xml in Firefox.
Q: Is it currently possible to move the save button to the top of the edit box while editing ? Would it be relatively easy to implement ? Where can I look for hints ?
A: This is a trivial change in sub DoEdit. Find it, then look for the line that starts with "print $q->submit" and move it above the line that starts with "print &GetTextArea?" -- UngarPeter
A: There is a UseModWiki/MailingList, but it is only used for announcements. Usually we use this wiki for communication.
A: I think, it doesn't matter. Maybe we should split this rather large page to pages about special topics or better include them in the UseModWiki/UseModFAQ --MarkusLude
A: AFAIK there is no such way. We usually don't add the date tags. --MarkusLude
Q: Is it possible to add comments to the wiki markup ? So that they are displayed when someone tries to edit the page, but do not actually show up in any form in the html output ?
A1: There is no wiki markup for comments. This is usually what /Talk pages are for. If you use $RawHtml (not advisable on public wikis, see the warning at the RawHtml page) you can embed HTML comments into the page like this: <html><!-- This here is a comment --></html>. -- UngarPeter
A2: You could add markup for comments to the wiki script, if you can write perl.
A3: UseMod:WikiPatches/Hide? --JuanmaMP
Response: The patch from JuanmaMP works great, thank you !! We are using usemod to create a shared space for data-analysis and report-writing, and we often are in a situation where the display on the screen is the finished product for readers, while comments inside the markup serve as notes for those who are involved in writing the report.
Q: What is the easiest way to supply image size attributes when linking to uploaded images ? I want to be able to say for example, display at "x pixels by y pixels, or shrink by 50 percent" etc.
A: There are two ways to do this:
It says "You don't have permission to access /cgi/wiki on this server."
A: No it doesn't. Maybe it did, sometimes c2.com is a little cranky. -- UngarPeter
Q: How can I tell which version of usemodwiki I'm running? I'm also interested in doing what I can as an administrator to limit spam by adding patches and the like. These seem difficult to do. Is there a clean install that might be easier? 15-Sept-2005
A:wiki.pl?action=version
Thank you. 1.0 is the answer. Knowing that, anything about patches and the like? -- TedErnst
A: (palliative) wiki.pl?action=editbanned to ban IP/network/host (as admin).
Thanks. I do that, but the same spammers come back with other IPs. I feel like now I've banned nearly everyone. This makes for a closed wiki. Any other solutions? --TedErnst
A: You may restrict editing to editors only and place an editor password somewhere on the wiki as PaulMorrison mentioned on WikiSuggestions/AdminFeatures.
A: You may restrict the number of http-links added on a page. See MeatBall:ShotgunSpam.
Every time I save an edit, I encounter an error. The good news is that the changes that I've just made are indeed saved. The bad news is that after making the edit, rather than being returned successfully to the original page, the script forgets to include the $DataDir value and tries to direct my query to the /cgi/ dir itself [i.e. "http://treesong.org/cgi/?Topic", which obviously just creates a 500 error].
Setting $RedirType to 3 seems to fix the problem, but it would be quite a loss in functionality to have to keep it that way permanently. There must be a simple fix in the code somewhere -- some tweak that I can make either in config or the main script to ensure that whenever it redirects after an edit, it makes sure to go to my $DataDir info [or some other variable that it should be using] rather than defaulting to the CGI directory as described above.
Any ideas on how to fix this? I'll dig around in the code a bit but nothing is coming to mind so far. This seems to be a bug in the script itself, although I don't know why I'm the lucky one encountering the bug and most other users don't seem to. Thanks in advance for any help, and I'll reply to this here if I figure it out on my own.
A: Who knows -- but $FullUrl can fix it.
After much experimenting, I realized that there is a simple solution. In the Config file [or the main scripf file], you can change $FullUrl to reflect the full URL of your script's location [including "wiki.pl" or whatever you named it]. So far, this has fixed the problem 100%. This might be a good thing to add to a FAQ somewhere...
Maybe have a look at RewriteRule, if you use them for rewriting urls.
Hello out there (again),
I would like to know about the perl script (I don't program in Perl) where the character set is defined for each categories?; Any example? The problem is that it does not allow tildes for the Spanish language in names of blogs (Cwick), for example . Thanks in advance. --Juanmamp?
Q: UseMod for Software Bug Tracking? 8-May-2005
I have a simple UseMod installation at work and we have a group of us entering documents, HOWTOs, etc into the system but I'd like to incorporate something to help us keep track of the problems we find with the software we use (the group is comprised of mainly software users, not developers/maintainers).
We don't need anything terribly sophisticated but we do need reports, etc for bugs that have (not) been fixed, lists of new bugs, etc across a number of products.
If I was doing something standalone on our intranet, I could do something with CGI scripts using forms, etc with perl and ODBC/DBM ... but I'd like to integrate it with the UseMod-based wiki... or would it be simpler to have a separate 'application'?
Just looking for some suggestions... and I don't know if this is the best place to ask... --Ozboomer
I use UseModWiki as an intranet application. I have modified wiki.pl in such a way that constructs as <l>a^2+b^2=c^2</l> are handled by LaTeX and its result is automatically inserted as a PNG file.
Part of the construct <l>a^2+b^2=c^2</l> is copied to a temporary latex file. This file has a preamble such as
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\newcommand{..}{..}
\begin{document}
What I like to do is the following: I would like to store such a preamble in a wiki-page, say LatexPreamble?. Each time a new latex file is created, wiki.pl has to read the contents of LatexPreamble?.
The question is which function in wiki.pl can I use to read the contents of page LatexPreamble? while processing the wiki page with the latex construction?
cheers,
ChrisVanUffelen? 21-04-2005
Thanks
wiki.pl fails with "Insecure dependency" error
Help, I'm installing UseModWiki for the first time. I am able to view my sandbox and Formatting Rules but when I hit the save button I get the following error message: Software error: "Insecure dependency in open while running with -T switch at /var/www/cgi-bin/wiki.pl line 2839.
The line of code it's referring to is:
sub WriteStringToFile? { my ($file, $string) = @_;
concat(OUT, ">$file") or die(Ts('cant write %s', $file) . ": $!"); # line 2839
print OUT $string;
close(OUT);
}
And I have no idea what it means. Any suggestions?
'Running with -T switch' means that Perl is running with taint checking enabled. This checks whether user-supplied values are being passed directly to a system command (open, in sub WriteStringToFile?). That's potentially dangerous, so Perl throws an "Insecure dependency" error and quits before damage could happen.
Version 1.0 of wiki.pl doesn't enable taint checking (though it should -- see [CGI/Perl Taint Mode FAQ] and [Security Issues in Perl Scripts: Perl Taint Mode]). WikiPatches/TaintMode enables taint checking, and corrects two routines that cause the error above.
(wiki.pl should run cleanly with warnings (-w) enabled too, but it doesn't.)
is possible with private ip's?
thanks in advance. -- Juanmamp?
Ban them the same way you would normal IP addresses. --ChuckAdams
Maybe you can help me.
I am trying to make a search formula for Usemod. You know, a URL formula sort of to search for a word for example.
I know how to make an edit at the URL: https://www.usemod.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=edit&id=RobertAbitbol
Thanks!
-- [Robert Abitbol]?
A
Here's the URL http://www.humanistcenterofcultures.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?action=editprefs
Here's the error message:
Could not get user-ID lock at D:\xxx\humanistcenterofcultures.org\wiki\wiki.cgi line 3697.
For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error message and the time and date of the error. [Thu Jan 6 04:17:39 2005] wiki.cgi: Could not get user-ID lock at D:\xxx\humanistcenterofcultures.org\wiki\wiki.cgi line 3697.
I've installed UseMod on my gateway (which has a very light load), and saving pages is quite slow. 20-30 seconds to save a page and have it come back to my browser. OpenBSD? 3.4 on a Celeron 466. ~200MB of memory free. Disks are mirrored running on a 3ware controller (can't remember model number). I am using soft updates (sort of a journaling feature that lets you run your disks safely with asymetric writes). This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-openbsd Apache: Server Version: Apache/1.3.28 (Unix) PHP/4.3.3 mod_ssl/2.8.15
TIA - ChrisLawson
sub RequestLock {
# 10 tries, 3 second wait, possibly die on error
return &RequestLockDir("main", 10, 3, $LockCrash);
}
to...
sub RequestLock {
return 1;
# 10 tries, 3 second wait, possibly die on error
return &RequestLockDir("main", 10, 3, $LockCrash);
}
...and see if the problem goes away. (This would disable the locking mechanism, but it is very unlikely that there will be any problems resulting from this. I still recommend backing up your wiki database occasionally just in case of a problem.) If these suggestions don't work, let me know and I'll look for other possible causes. (Is the preview button also very slow? The preview function also uses the locking function.) --CliffordAdams
Changing the RequestLock? function doesn't affect the time to save. The proview button works quickly, in less than three seconds. Mounting the drives without soft updates doesn't seem to change anything either. CPU usage is very low during the save. Save actually takes about 80-90 seconds. I watched the [iostat] output for 100 samples and the CPU never hits more than 50% usage.
The wiki is perfectly functional (and fun to play with), so I'm not super worried about this (Saves aren't the lion's share of my usage). Given that no one else seems to be experiencing it, I'll just assume it's a hardware or config problem. I was mostly hoping it was an known problem with an easy fix. I'll check back to see if there's any other suggestions. Also I can post whatever output you like, maybe a run of iostat without the save going and one with the save going? Or a version of the wiki with profiling etc. It's not a big deal. Thanks again -ChrisLawson
Feb2006: I found this entry when I was searching for reasons why my saving was slow, so here's my solution for future searchers... try changing the UseLookup variable to 0, that was really slowing me down. RogerPilkey
edit lock? 30Dec04
HI
On http://www.carpe.com/wiki/wiki.pl I get a
Could not get editing lock at /usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/carpegas/wiki/wiki.pl line 3240.
When I try to save a page.
I made sure there is enough disk-space on the server. But at one time the server was full.
How do I go back to normal?
Thanks OliverGassner
Hi guys. I'm more or less certain the answer to this question will be no, but I thought it was worth a try ... anyway, we have a major spam problem over at ExaltedWiki? too, but the admin has been AWOL for months and we can't rely on him to do anything (or even find him). Is there anything that we humble users can do without an admin password beyond reverting everything to prior revisions? Please say yes? It's really out of hand. Thanks. ~ Shataina
HI, i still feel the need to lock my wiki to spammers. and I don't want to give my central editor password away. Is there a simple patch that alows me to grant writing permission only to those who set a user name via 'Preferences'?
Thanks OliverGassner
$EditPass = "pass1 pass2 pass3"; --CliffordAdams
It appears that once the wiki is 'locked', you must enter the 'Editor' password into the 'Administrator Password' preferences box, rather than the user 'Set Password' box, to gain edit rights. Is this correct? If so, naming the 'Administrator Password' box 'Administrator/Editor? Password' instead would have saved me some confusion. Thanks,
I am using UseModWiki as a database locally on a WinXP? Pro machine. This works fine most of the time. However, when I try to link to files on the local hard drives, I have a problem. If I create a link such as:
this works fine when I'm online. However, as soon as I disconnect the machine, the file is no longer found. I've tried other combinations for naming the file and nothing seems to work. Any ideas??
Thanks.
[file:///C$/doc/xx.doc File XX]
Nov 19th 2004
I am trying to install usemod on an Apache server. The perl path is configured correctly, and permissions are 755. I copied wiki.pl to the cgi-bin directory and pointed MyDataDir? to a directory called "/wiki". When I browse to wiki.pl, I get an Error 500 page (Internal Server Error) -- am I missing something totally obvious?
Thanks,
--Brad Rourke
The 500 by itself doesn't give any useful information. Look at your apache error log and see what it says there.
Thanks...solved. It was permissions. --Brad
I have so much Spam that I would like to lock the wiki to people who have not set preferences, or say, whose name has a three digit number followed by a . in it ;) I am no programmer, but is there a patch for this? How do I close the wiki to people with no username / Password?
(I have a spammer a day apmming to 5-10 pages, it's a pain...) - OliverGassner
i've installed a usemod wiki, everything is working fine except the diffs. i only get "No diff available" messages. in wiki.pl and config "usediff" is on of course. i have the feeling that it has to do with the $ENV{PATH} setting (i left it default "/usr/bin/";) any suggestions? thank you for your help. cs
Q Charset and chars October 20th
I've tried to set up a local wiki and encountered two problems. Whenever I try to set HttpCharset to something different than "", I get an error:
Undefined subroutine CGI::charsetAlso, when I try to save a page with non-english names, I also get an error:
cant write ./archive//page/G[/Gammastrålning Och Svarta Hål]?.db: Invalid argument at /[path]/wiki/wiki.pl line 2839.The wiki is supposed to be in english but will contain pages with some Scandinavians names. Thanks for any help -- Ulrik
After I have put everything in the cgi-bin dir and open the wiki.pl using a web browser below is what I get from the tripod website:
Your script produced this error:
Can't locate strict.pm in @INC (@INC contains: . / /lib /site_perl) at wiki.pl line 30.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at wiki.pl line 30.
May I know what is wrong? Many Thanks. --BoonPhing?
use strict;
Thanks Cliff. I found out that Tripod website do not support some of the packages. And I have to install them myself. That is the problem. Anyway, I have hosted it using my own PC. --BoonPhing?
Q: grep and head for windows? (LoginLogoutPatch?)] (2004-08-28)
is possible grep and head for WikiPatches/LoginLogoutPatch under CygWin?.
This patch in Windows return:
"The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers. The headers it did return are:".Anything for windows?.
I found this page in ym wiki: http://www.carpe.com/wiki/wiki.pl?LiteraturweltWikiTopTen It does not seem to update; and in the meantime I also changed the Name of the Wiki. How can I get http://www.carpe.com/wiki/wiki.pl?CarpeWikiTopTen to
I did not find anything in the wiki itself or in this wiki about this feature.
Thanks OliverGassner
I have installed some wikis at home like localhost, and I would like to obtain more features.
My question is (I'm not a programmer, my first language was chemistry, oops!, :) ), for example, when appears "@@ -59,7 +59,7" or "@@ -1480,8 +1486,10 @@" how to insert the code? .
I've seen in another patches: *** 45,51 **** and I suppose that means lines between 45 and 51 but I don't understand the first expression like "@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@" etc.
Thanks for advance. Wikis are "great"!. Sorry for my English. -- JuanmaMP
patch wiki.pl < patch.txt
Thanks. -- JuanmaMP
Creating a closed user group (2004-04-07)
Is there some way you can you make Wiki a closed user group? So that only specific people can go and see the post and edit them?
Setting up UseModWiki at localhost (2004-04-07)
I have set up phpbb on my localhost(/var/www/html). What is the procedure to install usemod wiki at localhost? Do I have to create a directory cgi-bin under /var/www/html? And do I have to keep only wiki.pl file in this directory?
OR, do I have to copy the wiki.pl file to /var/www/cgi-bin directory? I am really confused and helpless, so any help would be appreciated.
-Distressed soul (shashank.s@rediffmail.com)
Date format(YYYY-DD-MM)
Is it possible to make some parts of the Wiki to remain private? Something like password-protected that people can´t not see without knowing the password. Thanks
...
&InitCookie(); # Reads in user data
# The beginning of the new code
my $action;
if ($UserID == 111) { # don't know this user
$action = lc(&GetParam('action', ''));
if ($action ne 'newlogin') { # is not a new login, then quit
&ReportError("This is a closed System");
exit 1;
}
}
# The end of the new code
return 1;
...
}
--StanDelnicki?
<strike>My wiki is currently here: http://eversion.freeshell.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
I need to move it. I've just bought a new hosting service and transferred the whole thing over to it using ftp (back to my machine and then over to the new host). I think I've chmod'ed everything correctly but it still doesn't like it. I get a server error and my error log says 'premature end of script headers'.
I've used usemod before as a fresh install with this hosting company (http://rob.annable.co.uk/wlw/wiki.pl), but this is the first time I've tried to move something.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks, Rob Annable</strike>
I moved just the wiki.pl, config file and the 'pages' folder and left everything else. It worked!
I am setting up a Wiki on an intranet. I have added various useful directories to my InterMap file, so what I really want is something like "Products:Here I am.txt" which will expand to the File:// thing. I've tried using square brackets, double square brackets, + and _.
-- DaveHarris
-- JeroenZ??
<pre>Line one Line two--note that WikiWords are not links in pre-formatted sections Line three</pre>
...it will display as:
Line one Line two--note that WikiWords are not links in pre-formatted sections Line three
How do I use anchors in pages whose name contains spaces? I've tried various combination of free-links, url's in square brackets, |'s %20's and #'s but didn't find a working one. Ideally I'd like to use a local page name (like in a free link), without having to specify the wiki's URL in the link.
Let's say my page is called "a b" which contains an anchor "c", how does this page refer to it's anchor? BTW: is there a better way to implement foot notes?
Thanks, Amnon Harel
I like the upload feature in 1.0 but I was expecting to be able to use a syntax like [upload:file.txt description] and have it appear as [description], but instead it just appears as [upload:file.txt description]. Is this intended or am I missing something? --- Mike Hudson.
[Files:myfile.txt description] and it would work. --CliffordAdams
For those of us using windows at home, and uploading to a UNIX host, changing the database location address during installation seems to present an insurmountable problem. When I edit the wiki.pl to remove /tmp from the data directory, it becomes useless to the server. Can something be done about this?
Solutions could be:
Thanks!
Thanks! -- John Andrews
I've only been wiki-ing for a few weeks now, so please bear with me. I'm trying to get a simple listing of all the links to unwritten pages on my [wiki] using the "links&exists=0" action in wiki.pl, but as you can see that action yields a page that never finishes loading. Am I doing something wrong? That same request seems to work on other UseMod wikis. Another (possibly related) thing: the ?action=rss command doesn't seem to produce anything either.
Really all I want is something comparable to the "Non-existing pages most linked to" functionality that MediaWiki has (such as [this wiki]). Is this possible with UseMod?
Thanks in advance, I've extremely pleased with this software so far!
Here is the same illustration:
| First First First | Centered Centered Centered | Right Right Right |
| First | Centered | Right |
| A | B | C |
| Next is empty | C | |
| Summary |
Now when you go to that page, it looks as if nothing has been added there and it is a brand new wiki. This is not so, which you can see simply by clicking on "4 Years in Armenia", the wiki name, in the top menu (taking you to http://www.cilicia.com/stories.pl?4_Years_In_Armenia). I suspect this has to do with the fact that I decided to use a number rather than a letter for the first character of the wiki name. Perhaps using the site name "Four Years in Armenia" would work better, but I like the "4". Any thoughts, suggestions, fixes??? Thanks!
Software error:
cant write /home/sites/gecko/www/public_html/wiki/temp/old_diff: No such file or directory at /home/sites/gecko/www/public_html/wiki/wiki.pl line 2839.
For help, please send mail to the webmaster (admin@gecko.f2o.org), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
Do I need to manuely create some directories or something? Thanks! -James
I am considering upgrading a largish wiki (several hundred pages) from the Atiswiki engine to Usemod. In order to automate the process I am considering of writing a script to convert material from RCS-based Atiswiki repository to a Usemod db. However, in order to not replicate somehing that has already been done: are there any tools for Atiswiki to Usemod migration already in existence? -- TuomasToivonen
Q: Mandatory emailing?
It is possible to set up the wiki so that it automatically emails me whenever someone makes a change? --AndrewDucker
I want to write LaTeX? or SuSE?, but I do not want, that these words are WikiLinks. What can I do?
I have some code that I'm trying to put in a wiki page. The code has backslashes at the end of a few of the lines, which the wiki interprets and joins the lines together. I've tried leading spaces for monospace, < pre> tags, double- and triple-backslashes, with no luck. Did I miss something? Thanks! Robert 30-Aug-2005
I'm using a local wiki to sort out a bunch of raw TXT files. A lot of these involve sets of data like "line one" break "line two" break "line three" paragraph break; the wiki properly handles the paragraph break, but the normal breaks are ignored. So far the solutions I've found involve throwing around BR tags like there's no tomorrow (which is a pain in the arse to implement and also marks up the raw text all to hell and back), and the PRE tags - which are a better solution, but then longer paragraphs run off the edge of the screen. Is there a way to make it word wrap longer paragraphs within PRE tags?
I'm trying to include in a wiki page some code or xml text. nowiki seems only to work if start and endtag is on the same line or the lines are continued with backslash. Someone an idea what to do ? Dirk
OK, after using the source i found that $ParseParas? was set to 0. After setting it to 1 it works.
Q: Is there a way to change the layout of the html output for usemod? March 5 2006
I'm creating a wiki for strategic plan development, and want to have an easily accessible set of links down the side of the page rather than along the bottom. Is there a way to do this? Thanks.
Do you have disabled $UseSubpage?? Are all or only some subpages gone? Could you get the history of the subpages only found in the kept directory (you may try something like wiki.pl?action=history&id=Page/SubPage) -- MarkusLude
I copied the script and config files verbatim so no changes in options. And not all sub-pages are gone. Weird. Take a look at THIS history: http://www.humanistcenterofcultures.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?action=history&id=OmidyarConference/Participants - I couldn't wait to re-create the page, so I started from scratch. Totally weird. Others don't seem to have a history, even though they show on RecentChagnes?: http://www.humanistcenterofcultures.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?action=history&id=TedErnst/ThePast - not sure if that one is in kept or not, actually -- TedErnst
Really strange. The last version of the first page before th move should be under http://www.humanistcenterofcultures.org/wiki/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=OmidyarConference/Participants&revision=50. There seems no kept version of TedErnst/ThePast?. The list of pages on RecentChanges is not read from the page directory, but from a seperate log file rc.log. Did you have a look at your backup archive? Went something wrong while doing the backup or maybe only while restoring? -- MarkusLude
A: You need to use the URL rewriting capabilities of your web server. Assuming that you have apache with mod_rewrite installed, the solution would be adding the following to your config file (either .htaccess or the main config):
RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/index.cgi?$1 [PT]
Replace /usr/lib/cgi-bin with wherever your cgi-bin directory is. -- UngarPeter
I've tried to paste the contents of http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.cecil-adams/msg/8d5efcf0ddbf6f65?dmode=source&hl=en&output=gplain into my wiki, but I keep getting a 403 message: "You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/afca1 on this server." This happens even when I put pre tags around the text. I can edit the page and add other text, but the text at the URL above always makes it barf. I tried pasting the same text into a test page on this wiki and I don't get an error message, but the changes aren't saved, either. The usenet post is the only text I'm trying to save: it's a new page. I'm stumped. Any ideas?
Here you may run into a limit of new added urls as a kind of spam protection. Do you have some kind of access restriction to your wiki? Any entries in the error log of the web server? --MarkusLude
Oh, duh, I am out of practice at this. Checked the server log. mod_security was overzealous: It saw a sentence that had "create ______ from ______" and blocked it as a possible SQL injection attack. Thanks!
I would desperately like to acquire a Mod that allows for more than two subpages to be used. I've seen the like on wiki.atitd.net using UseModWiki, and would truly like to find out whether this is a home-grown mod, or if its available on the web somewhere. Hiearchial subpages appeal to my anal-retentive nature and desire to organize things into trees. :) Help!
Aodhan
We'll give it a shot and see what happens! - Aodhan
Hopefully a simpler question..
I would like offsite links to *NOT* display with the [ ] after it.. For example, [wika] will show up as [wika] in the wiki text, is there any way to have it show up as just wika. With no brackets? I thank you all for helping a newbie with this!
Aodhan
How do I set up a search plugin for firefox 1.5 for internal wiki? I am close but no cigar with the following
<search name="SimWiki" method="GET" action="***wiki.pl"> <input name="search" user> </search>If I enter a query, nothing happens. I think I'm missing searchform= in the <search> but dont know what to put there. Thanks.
Q: Backlinks seems to be slightly broken for articles with spaces in the name. If I create e.g. "My Page" and click on the title (to see the pages linking to it), the search URL is for "My+Page", which comes up empty. Oddmuse also has the plus sign in the search URL, but it somehow still finds the linked pages. --Martin
[My Page]?
OK, I see your problem. I'll have a closer look later -- MarkusLude
Q: I'm having a very odd problem I'm creating a site with topics stored under different sections using the / tag. Everything was going fine till suddenly UseMod decided to stop rendering the markup at all you can see this at Here and Here. I'm at a loss as to what would cause this. Any help appreciated. Thanks
O.k. was failing to understand that there was only one level of subpaging. Mostly, because it seemed to be woring fine other places.. let me clean things up to one level of subpages....
That was it. If you are using subpages and UseMod suddenly decides to stop rendering markup, check your level of recursion. You're probably more then one level deep. Sorry for wasting peoples time with an obvious question.
Q: Having the same problem as above but with only one level of subpages... Any idea why? You can see an example of this non-rendering [here] and [here] Strangely [This page] which I created to demonstrate the problem does render.. Can I just not create pages starting with F? at a loss here
Tried createing pages with various names after the sucesss of the NotRendering page so far none work. Have taken a close look at the last pages I did before the problem started.. if there is a problem there I am missing it. If I can't get a handle on this I may have to migrate away from usemod which I'd rather not do as:
I will of course check back here for an answer. But if more info is neede or the fix will be more involved please feel free to use the contact info on my wiki to reach me. Thanks in advance.
Q: Can someone explain to me - simply please - how I can get "full text" and/or "regular expression" searching on my company's wiki? Do I need a perl script to download? --HooYar66