ewiki web installer

This utility installs a Wiki for you, if you give it the access (FTP) credentials for a remote web server. You simply select the type of Wiki you want and activate the features you need. Of course not all possible options are provided as it was designed to be quick and easy to use. It's based upon the ewiki engine.

version, installation type

install the
Note: The CVS version is sometimes more stable than development (=bugfixes) or major releases, so you may want to give it a try also.

upload

features

use

click-and-run .xpi plugins (to easily extend the Wiki at any later time)
database administration tools/ (100K)
smilies package (70K)
fragments/css/ (40K)
markup emulation (PhpWiki, SfWiki, UseMod, BBcode)

any additional plugins (as comma separated list)

important settings

Wiki name/title
split WikiWords in links and titles
administrator password (for tools/, write this down!)

database type:

flat file database
storage directory

fast MySQL database
server
database
user name
password
db table

layout

Most of these layouts were taken from oswd.org. You probably want to edit their default menus after installation.

installation destination

FTP server passive mode
FTP login name ( debug)
FTP password
subdirectory to use You should not install the Wiki into the root dir, as it there could overwrite existing files. Also you need to give any (provider dependent) prefixes here, like "htdocs/" or "html/" or "files/".

security tip, data protection note

(may take 20-30 sec)