Install a bleeding edge OntoWiki from Subversion

This wiki page documents the installation on a ubuntu linux box. You have to adapt it for other distributions or operating systems.

Requirements

In order to install Onto Wiki from Sub Version you need:

• PHP 5.2
• mod_rewrite allowed in target directory
• .htaccess allowed in target directory
• An installed MySQL Server, a created database on that server and an account which is able to read and write that database

Download

An OntoWiki installation can be downloaded by only one checkout. This checkout downloads OntoWiki, Erfurt, RAP and Zend.

svn co https://powl.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/powl/trunk/ontowiki /path/to/ontowiki

During the checkout process, you have to confirm SSL certificates ...

Configuration

The most important configuration step is the database configuration. First you have to copy these files:

cd /path/to/ontowiki cp htaccess.dist .htaccess cp config.ini.dist config.ini

Then you need to change the database configuration in your config.ini:
database.params.host = localhost database.params.username = owuser database.params.password = owpass database.params.dbname = ontowiki

After that, go to your OntoWiki URL in your browser (e.g. http://localhost/ontowiki/). There will be an info page that you do not have the ontowiki tables and data in your database (if not, have a look at the TroubleShooting section). The page will be reloaded several times and after the last reload you will see a fresh and clean OntoWiki :-) If you are new to Onto Wiki you can read the First Steps Documentation now.

Trouble Shooting

Please make sure that Apache reads the .htaccess file. (see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html#troubleshoot) and the rewrite engine (module rewrite load) is enabled. Otherwise, URI rewrites will not work.