How to Install TWiki on Fedora Server

TWiki is a popular open-source wiki application that allows for easy collaborative editing and information sharing. In this tutorial, we'll demonstrate how to install TWiki on a Fedora Server.

Prerequisites

Before we get started, there are a few things you'll need:

• A Fedora Server installation with root access
• A running Apache web server
• PHP installed on your server
• SSH client to connect to your server

Step 1: Download TWiki

First, head over to the TWiki download page and select the latest version of TWiki that you want to install. The latest version at the time of writing is TWiki 6.1.0.

Use the following command to download the TWiki package:

$ wget https://github.com/TWiki/TWikiRelease/blob/master/TWiki-6.1.0.tar.gz

Step 2: Extract and Move TWiki

After downloading the TWiki package, extract it to a directory of your choice:

$ tar -xvzf TWiki-6.1.0.tar.gz

We'll move the TWiki-6.1.0 directory to the web server's root directory with mv command:

$ mv TWiki-6.1.0 /var/www/html/twiki

Step 3: Configure Apache

Now, we need to configure the Apache web server.

Create a new configuration file twiki.conf for TWiki:

$ nano /etc/httpd/conf.d/twiki.conf

Add the following lines to twiki.conf file:

Alias /twiki /var/www/html/twiki/bin/view
<Directory "/var/www/html/twiki">
  Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
  AllowOverride None
  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
  Order allow,deny
  Allow from all
  Require all granted
</Directory>

Enable rewrite and cgi Apache module:

$ sudo a2enmod rewrite cgi

Restart Apache by running:

$ sudo systemctl restart httpd

Step 4: Install Perl and Required Modules

TWiki is a Perl-based application. To run it, we need to install Perl and required Perl modules on our system.

Install Perl and required Perl modules through the following command:

$ sudo dnf install perl perl-CPAN
$ sudo cpan CGI Apache2::Request

Step 5: Configure TWiki

TWiki stores its configuration information in the lib/LocalSite.cfg file. We need to configure this file before starting TWiki.

Copy the LocalSite.cfg file to the TWiki-6.1.0 directory and edit it:

$ cp /var/www/html/twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg.txt /var/www/html/twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg
$ nano /var/www/html/twiki/lib/LocalSite.cfg

Set the $twikiLibPath variable to:

$twikiLibPath = '/var/www/html/twiki/lib';

Set the $dataDir and $pubDir variables to:

$dataDir = '/var/www/html/twiki/data';
$pubDir = '/var/www/html/twiki/pub';

Step 6: Access TWiki

Now everything is done. You can test that by accessing TWiki from any web browser:

http://your-server-address/twiki/bin/view

You should now be able to see the TWiki welcome screen!

Conclusion

That's all there is to it! You now have TWiki up and running on your Fedora Server. From here, you can customize it according to your needs and start collaborating with others to create great content!