Tiki is an open-source, free software application for online collaboration, publishing, and project management. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Tiki on Elementary OS Latest using the command-line interface.
Before starting with the installation process, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
The first step in installing Tiki on Elementary OS Latest is to update your system's repository list and software packages to their latest versions. Open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Tiki requires a web server and PHP to function. You can install these packages by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install apache2 php libapache2-mod-php
Tiki stores its data in a database, and it requires MySQL or MariaDB to manage its database. To install MySQL, run the following command:
sudo apt install mysql-server mysql-client
During the installation process, you will be prompted to set a root password for MySQL. Remember this password as you will need it later.
Once MySQL is installed, you need to create a new database and a user with privileges to access and manage the database. To create a new database and a user with full privileges, run the following command:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Enter the root password that you had set during the installation process when prompted. Then run the following SQL commands to create a new database, create a new user, and grant the user full privileges:
CREATE DATABASE tiki;
CREATE USER 'tikiuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON tiki.* TO 'tikiuser'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Replace password with your desired password for the tikiuser.
You can download the latest version of Tiki from the official Tiki website. Alternatively, you can use wget to download the file directly from the terminal:
cd /tmp && wget https://kcdn3.tiki.org/Tiki_22.x_latest.zip
Once downloaded, extract the zip file using the unzip command:
sudo apt install unzip
sudo unzip Tiki_22.x_latest.zip -d /var/www/html/
Now that you have extracted Tiki to the Apache web server's document root, you need to configure it to work with your MySQL database. To do this, open the following file in a text editor:
sudo nano /var/www/html/tiki/db/local.php
Find the following lines and replace them with the appropriate details for your MySQL database:
$dbs_tiki = array(
'host' => 'localhost',
'port' => '',
'socket' => '',
'user' => 'tikiuser',
'pass' => 'password',
'name' => 'tiki',
'prefix' => '',
'type' => 'mysql',
'method' => 'mysql'
);
Finally, you need to set the correct file permissions to ensure that Tiki can read and write files in the document root. To do this, run the following commands:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/tiki
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/tiki
You can now access your Tiki installation by navigating to http://localhost/tiki in your web browser. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process.
In this tutorial, we have covered the steps to install Tiki on Elementary OS Latest. Tiki is a powerful tool for online collaboration and project management, and it can help you streamline your workflow and improve productivity.
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