How to make your own piki
Prerequisites
You will need a server running MySQL and PHP (or at least the ability to create a database on a MySQL database somewhere).
You will also need MediaWiki-1.4.7: a tarball is here (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/piki1.0/wiki/mediawiki-1.4.7.tar.gz).
Steps
- Install MediaWiki (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikipedia). Follow the installation guidelines (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Installation) carefully.
- Once you have installed MediaWiki (and moved LocalSettings.php from the config directory to the main directory), download the Piki tarball (http://blizzard.cs.uwaterloo.ca/piki1.0/wiki/piki.tar.gz)
- Unzip and untar the tarball. You will get a directory called 'piki'.
- Copy piki/LocalSettings.php just before the ?> at the end of your LocalSettings.php file
- Copy piki/CologneBlue.php to skins/CologneBlue.php. You need to make one edit to this file, and that is to choose the name of your Piki.
- Copy piki/cologneblue.css to skins/common/cologneblue.css
- Copy piki/sidebar.txt to skins
- Copy piki/*.php to the includes directory
- From the top level directory, execute 'chown -R apache *', 'chgrp -R apache *' to make sure the ownership is correct
- Ensure that all the new files you create are chmodded to 755
Known bug: If you log in to the site and the look and feel doesn't match your piki's look and feel, you will need to go to the 'preferences' page (under Special Pages->more) and change the default style from 'monobook' to 'cologneblue'
If you run into trouble, feel free to ask for help.
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