This iteration I’ve been working using the HTTPDUserAdminContrib – as having the users and groups in the database makes it hard to work on.
Hopefully there’ll be time to use and extend it for foswiki 1.1
Author: Sven Dowideit
You might remember me from tools like http://TWiki.org, http://Foswiki.org, https://github.com/docker/Boot2Docker, Docker documentation, or https://github.com/rancher/os
Foswiki 1.0.7 on a USB Stick
I’ve updated the USB Foswiki to include foswiki 1.0.7, and updated the systray controller to be a little more slick 🙂
I’m still looking for feedback from users – Its a nice fast way to try out foswiki without needing to install anything – just unzip the archive into the root of a disk, and click start_foswiki.bat (on Windows XP the autorun should start that automatically for you)
Foswiki 1.0.7 released.
Continuing our commitment to bug fixing and solving difficult security issues, we’re proud to announce that the Foswiki project has released 1.0.7.
This release contains:
- an upgraded Wysiwyg editor : TinyMCE 3.2.2
- table plugin sorting improvements
- CSRF fixes and streamlineing
- and a series of Windows related improvements
see http://foswiki.org/Download/WebHome for more details, and to download the update.
I’m updating the Foswiki On a USB Stick at the moment, and will then work on Windows and Debian.
Ohloh shows a very comforting graph for me – over the year, we’ve been maintaining our momentum, and regularly have over 10 different contributors every month.
Foswiki Association founded!
On Wednesday the 09.09.2009 we came together for the initial Founding of the Foswiki Association. After four hours of meeting it was created – articles explained and agreed, iInitial board elected as well as signatures approved with the notary. Afterwards we took a beer and had some nice chats. I guess we will manage to upload some pictures during the weekend
To quote Jens Hansen:
On Wednesday the 09.09.2009 we came together for the initial Founding of the Foswiki Association. After four hours of meeting it was created – articles explained and agreed, iInitial board elected as well as signatures approved with the notary. Afterwards we took a beer and had some nice chats. I guess we will manage to upload some pictures during the weekend.
So now we have a non-profit entity that will hold the domains, trademarks and intellecual property, thus securing our open source identity from ‘startups’ like T(m)wiki inc.
Jens and the guys have been working hard ‘in the background’ to get this legal entity up and running, and we’ll be holding a full general assembly as soon as we can organise that too.
Meanwhile, we’re also working on a 1.0.7 and 1.1 release of foswiki – busy times.
Foswiki on a USB stick (updated)
FoswikiOnAStick v0.1 (running foswiki 1.0.6)
I was asked on Friday night if I could make a demo foswiki USB system, and given that its high time we did one, I started to look into it. Initially I thought this would be a great oportunity to try out the HTTPEngine work Gilmar has been doing, but we’re not quite there yet. And so, I started a quick perusal of the existing WebServer on a Stick systems. Ideally, I want to use Strawberry perl, apache, and have the server and a browser start up automatically when the USB stick is inserted into the computer.
- MicroApache
- Server2Go
- XAMPP
MicroApache was the first thing i looked at, as the contact pointed out DokuWikiOnAStick, but that server doesn’t seem to have source, nor is the upstream web site there (last release seems to be 2007, so too old for Strawberry perl too) Server2Go looks nice, but as its not really free in the debian sense, I’ll pass on that unless nothing else works. XAMPP – unzipped it, foswiki and did some minor configurations. unziped, removed everything except apache, added strawberry perl, and wrote a systray icon and menu system for you to control it with. TADA! FoswikiOnAStick v0.1v0.3 (running foswiki 1.0.6). please try it out.
Instructions for use:
- download the Foswiki on a Stick zip file
- unzip it to the root of your USB key (or any drive)
- start the systray app, web server and browser using start_foswiki.bat (goto http://localhost/ if the browser doesn’t start) (unblock / allow apache to get through the windows firewall)
before ejecting the usb key, you need to stop the webserver by running stop_foswiki.bat yes, thats all. Please report any issues or observations to me – SvenDowideit@fosiki.com
- the web server runs at the standard port 80, so if there is already a web server running it will fail
- when the web server starts, it will probably be blocked by Windows firewall – every time I’ve tested, a dialog pops up, and allows you to unblock it.
- ….
Warning
I have made no attempt (yet) to reduce the accesses to the disk – so it may use up all the blue smoke in your usbkey, cause your bits to turn green, or one of many other unforseen side effects which may or may not appear amusing if they happen to someone else. I’ve tested this on Windows7rc, Windows Vista, Windows2003server, and Windows XP – if it works for you, excellent :).
Vote ‘Foswiki for Best Project for the Enterprise’
SourceForge is running their fourth Community Choice Awards – you could vote for ‘Best Project for the Enterprise’ or even ‘Best New Project’
Wow, it seems we’re almost winners 😉
Foswiki 1.0.5 released and Windows and debian installers updated.
see http://foswiki.org/downloads and http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_debian/ for more information.
WordPressPlugin (posted directly from my foswiki)
post a topic to your
Usage
This plugin registers a restHandler that allows you to post a Foswiki topic to your wordpress Blog.
Only one blog can be configured at this stage, and must be set up by the administrator in configure, and the user must be an author.
If you hit post on a topic more than one time, it will post it multiple times – so be a little careful :).
Examples
to post the webstatistics topic to the configured wordpress blog, craft a URL like:
http://t42p/trunk/bin/rest/WordPressPlugin/post?topic=Sandbox.WebStatistics
Installation Instructions
You do not need to install anything in the browser to use this extension. The following instructions are for the administrator who installs the extension on the server.
Open configure, and open the “Extensions” section. Use “Find More Extensions” to get a list of available extensions. Select “Install”.
If you have any problems, or if the extension isn’t available in configure, then you can still install manually from the command-line. See http://foswiki.org/Support/ManuallyInstallingExtensions for more help.
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| Author(s): | SvenDowideit@fosiki.com | ||||||
| Copyright: | © Sven Dowideit – http://fosiki.com | ||||||
| License: | GPL 3 ( |
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| Version: | 3758 (2009-04-29) | ||||||
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| Home page: | http://foswiki.org/bin/view/Extensions/WordPressPlugin | ||||||
| Support: | http://foswiki.org/bin/view/Support/WordPressPlugin |
Foswiki night builds of trunk and Release01x00 branch
I’ve just (finally) set up the auto unit test run, PerlCritic and release build for the Release01x00 branch, and fixed the trunk builder.
Foswiki trunk gets built every 6 hours, and Release01x00 every 12 (based on my Sydney TZ).
If the unit tests fail, and email will be sent to the foswiki-discuss mailing list – no news is good news. See the build output areas:
where you will find the output log files, the built tar.gz and zip files and each of the component packages that make up a release.
new FugueIconsContrib
I created the FamFamFamContrib Icons package for T(m)wiki and Foswiki a year or three ago, and now have added a FugueIconsContrib package today – containing the fabulous iconset by Yusuke Kamiyamane.
Now we have 2 possible icon sets to replace the very odd and aging DocumentGraphics topic – the only thing holding us back is a mapping from the old %ICON{}% names to new.
I’ll dig up the work I did last year some time and see if we can finish it 🙂