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10 Installing TWiki
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Currently, TWiki is without doubt the flagship of the wiki variants.
It not only offers sophisticated permissions and user administration,
various separate areas and its own forms, but also a plugin interface
with which the system can be expanded by versatile additional functions,
such as drawing, calculation or a database.
In contrast to MediaWiki, TWiki is written in script language. It
does not use a database to store pages, but rather saves them as files
in a directory structure directly on the hard drive. When doing so, it
often refers to commands and programs that are present by default
on Linux systems. While not impossible, this makes the setup in a
test environment under Windows more difficult. For history administration,
the tool RCS (Revision Control System) is employed,
which records modifications and stores the files accordingly. Since
this tool is not present or cannot be installed (in the case of web
hosts) on all systems, TWiki has its own version of RCS which,
however, is still in the test phase. All required components are listed
in Tab. 10.1.
Components Function
Apache Web server, administers access to files from the
Net.
Perl Script language in which the TWiki software is
written.
Unix Tools Diverse programs, especially Diff and Grep, that
control access to and formatting of pages.
RCS Revision software to monitor modifications to a
file.
Before you install TWiki, you should think about what you would
like to do with it:
10.1 Installation under Linux
Required
components
Tab. 10.1
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