January 2008 - xwiki-users@xwiki.org

[xwiki-users] Help deploying xwiki under jboss/mysql/linux
by Dean Sellers 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Greetings fellow earthlings, I am hoping some generous soul can help me here, I am a thin-client app noob, but (IMHO) not a complete muppet. What I have is a brand new Linux (Ubuntu 6.06 server distro) server, Jboss 4.4.2.GA, mysql 5.0.22, xwiki 1.1.2, java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.13. My goal is an xwiki based site for the service and support department of the company I work for. I have installed xwiki on my local PC using the stanalone distro, all good. Now I want to get a server running so I can start to show the interested parties how it might work and get some feedback on the thing. I have followed the instructions on the xwiki and jboss sites pretty faithfully (multiple times) and can't seem to get xwiki to deploy under jboss. I have set mysql user and priviledges, downloaded the connector, modified hibernate.cfg.xml blah, blah. I can see the jboss default pages (at http://myserver.mydomain:8080/) when I start the jboss server, but no xwiki at http://myserver.mydomain:8080/xwiki I get http 404. I haven't got to the stage of importing the default enterprise database yet. Can someone help by first suggesting where I should start looking. I have had a look in the server.log and boot.log but they all seem like gobbly-gook to me. I won't post here as the server log is huge, 5MB, but I can filter it to something sensible if only I knew what to look for. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction, Thanks in advance, Dean Applications Engineer Rinstrum Pty. Ltd Products, support and applications at www.rinstrum.com

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[xwiki-users] Using Xwiki with apache
by Gaëtan GUYODO 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Another "new user" question... I used the xwiki-enterprise-installer-windows-1.2-rc-2.exe I would like to use that xwiki with apache, into an existing VirtualHost. I first just added these lines into the VirtualHost directives : <virtualHost> ... Redirect permanent /myXwiki/ http://server:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome ProxyPass /myXwiki/ http://server:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome ProxyPassReverse /myXwiki/ http://server:8080/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome ... </virtualHost> That's a first step, but when I try http://.../myXwiki/, I can only see text from xwiki, into a white page, no skin, no picture... I think I need to authorize apache to execute scripts, but I didn't find anything about that into the documentation or mailing list archive. I realised I didn't know what is the default "servlet container" into the xwiki-enterprise-installer-windows-1.2-rc-2.exe installation. Any idea ? -- __________________________________________ Gaëtan GUYODO Chargé de mission Centre Antipoison - Hôpital Fernand WIDAL 200, rue du faubourg St Denis 75475 PARIS Cedex 10 Tél: 01 40 05 49 63 / Fax: 01 40 05 48 56 __________________________________________

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Re: [xwiki-users] Wiki and WYSIWYG editing
by goldring, richard 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Vincent, Yes! From a users point of view improving the following areas would make a huge difference in useability: * A super slick WYSIWYG editor providing similar functionality as offline web page editors/word processors to enable users to easily and quickly enter (and cut and paste text/images from Word, other web pages, etc) and structure and layout the content on a page would help win over non-techie users who don't like the wiki editor. WYSIWYG java based web editors: http://www.technobulls.com/2006/06/23/top-5-free-javascript-wysiwyg-editors/ For instance perhaps use an html editor like this with features added for XWiki linking, etc: http://www.fckeditor.net/ and http://www.fckeditor.net/demo This editor supports cut and paste from Word. It could be offered as an alternative to the current wiki and WYSIWYG editors? A WYSIWYG editor doesn't have to translate everything to wiki markup does it? - couldn't be a mixture of both to take advantage of both and existing html WYSIWYG editors - of course it wouldn't translate over to edit in the wiki editor - but would you need/want to? * A flexible means to quickly customise a wiki skin (fonts/colours/page layouts/menus/indexes/stats/etc) to be customised for a particular wiki site without resorting to hacking css files would be useful. * A wizard to install XWiki on apache tomcat or other and hook it into a database would also help eliminate common setup/installation issues/problems. On another note - have you seen the wiki daskboard on wikipedia by PARC research? http://wikidashboard.parc.com/ and an example http://wikidashboard.parc.com/w/index.php?title=United_States_presidential_e lection%2C_2008&diff=183392068&oldid=9947884 Regards, Richard -----Original Message----- From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Vincent Massol Sent: 10 January 2008 12:52 To: XWiki Users Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Wiki and WYSIWYG editing On Jan 10, 2008, at 12:29 PM, goldring, richard wrote: > Just a thought: > > Perhaps XWiki should either allow users to edit a page with the wiki > editor > or the WYSIWYG editor BUT NOT BOTH and not provide translation > between them. > My reasoning is: > * that swapping between the editors can mess up the formatting - which > annoys users no end. > * the WYSIWYG wiki output can sometimes be hard to read and even > unreadable! > * the WYSIWYG could then provide additonal formatting not currently > supported by the wiki markup more easily (in HTML directly) > * first time users get confused with the two editors and swapping > between > them and they'd prefer the WYSIWYG editor as long as it didn't mess > up their > formatting > > Of course it would also be useful to provide some means via the > WYSIWYG > editor to add velocity, groovy code, HTML, etc to the page to retain > the > freedom and flexibility of the wiki editor. > > What do people think? Right now you can do what you suggest as a customization of your instance (for example forcing the use of the WYSIWYG editor or forcing the use of the wiki editor only). But the main problem is that there are a few annoying bugs in the WYSIWYG editor which can be fixed. Actually there aren't that many to make the WYSIWYG editor really slick (probably 3-4 main ones I'd say). Only issue is that it's a bit tricky to fix and the TinyMCE architecture isn't really scalable for the longer term future so that's why we've decided to implement a new WYSIWYG editor in Java using GWT. Now back to the current WYSIWYG editor, the XWiki project is welcoming all patches to fix it so it's only a matter of someone with Javascript skills providing some patches. We're also thinking about setting up some bounties and offering some money for people to work on specific parts of XWiki. This could be such a domain. Another one would be about creating new skins. Do you think this would help? Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users Thales UK Ltd (Wells) DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. It is intended only for the stated addressee(s) and access to it by any other person is unauthorised. If you are not an addressee, you must not disclose, copy, circulate or in any other way use or rely on the information contained in this e-mail. Such unauthorised use may be unlawful. We may monitor all e-mail communications through our networks. If you have received this e-mail in error, please inform us immediately on +44 (0) 1749 672081 and delete it and all copies from your system. We accept no responsibility for changes to any e-mail which occur after it has been sent. Attachments to this e-mail may contain software viruses which could damage your system. 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[xwiki-users] Wiki and WYSIWYG editing
by goldring, richard 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Just a thought: Perhaps XWiki should either allow users to edit a page with the wiki editor or the WYSIWYG editor BUT NOT BOTH and not provide translation between them. My reasoning is: * that swapping between the editors can mess up the formatting - which annoys users no end. * the WYSIWYG wiki output can sometimes be hard to read and even unreadable! * the WYSIWYG could then provide additonal formatting not currently supported by the wiki markup more easily (in HTML directly) * first time users get confused with the two editors and swapping between them and they'd prefer the WYSIWYG editor as long as it didn't mess up their formatting Of course it would also be useful to provide some means via the WYSIWYG editor to add velocity, groovy code, HTML, etc to the page to retain the freedom and flexibility of the wiki editor. What do people think? Regards, Richard Thales UK Ltd (Wells) DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this e-mail is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. It is intended only for the stated addressee(s) and access to it by any other person is unauthorised. If you are not an addressee, you must not disclose, copy, circulate or in any other way use or rely on the information contained in this e-mail. Such unauthorised use may be unlawful. We may monitor all e-mail communications through our networks. If you have received this e-mail in error, please inform us immediately on +44 (0) 1749 672081 and delete it and all copies from your system. We accept no responsibility for changes to any e-mail which occur after it has been sent. Attachments to this e-mail may contain software viruses which could damage your system. We therefore recommend you virus-check all attachments before opening. A business of Thales UK Ltd. Registered Office: 2 Dashwood Lang Road, The Bourne Business Park, Addlestone, Weybridge, Surrey KT15 2NX Registered in England No. 868273

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Re: [xwiki-users] Graphical problem
by mattia_temp-newsgroup＠yahoo.it 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi Sergiu, could you please suggest me an open source program that allows me to do it? (i don't find the option in mine :( Thank you very much ----- Messaggio originale ----- Da: Sergiu Dumitriu <sergiu(a)xwiki.com> A: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org> Inviato: Giovedì 10 gennaio 2008, 12:12:14 Oggetto: Re: [xwiki-users] Graphical problem mattia_temp-newsgroup(a)yahoo.it wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Sorry for the silly question, but i have an annoying problem on custom > icon visualization. > > The background of them appear correctly transparent in firefox, instead > in explorer it appear as "lightgrey" (as shown in the image attached) > > The png have been created with Paint.NET 3.0... > > Does anyone had the same problem? How do you solve it? > > Thank you!! > > Mattia IE 6 and earlier don't know about alpha-transparent PNGs. That's the most annoying thing web designers hate about Microsoft and its browser. In IE7 it should work. If you don't need full transparency (meaning semi-transparent pixels) but jost 100% or 0% transparency, then that you can do. I never used that program, but i guess it should have an option for this. Sergiu _______________________________________________ users mailing list users(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___________________________________ L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Re: [xwiki-users] Graphical problem
by mattia_temp-newsgroup＠yahoo.it 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi Brandon, Thank you for your answer, i've tryed to embed the jscript in the skin, but with no success... could you please help me? Thank you ----- Messaggio originale ----- Da: "Esbach, Brandon" <Esbachb(a)tycoelectronics.com> A: XWiki Users <users(a)xwiki.org> Inviato: Giovedì 10 gennaio 2008, 12:06:15 Oggetto: Re: [xwiki-users] Graphical problem DIV { MARGIN:0px;} IE doesn't support transparency very well in PNG's (all IE versions prior to IE7) - you can get around it though using some script. Gif transparency works to some decent extent in most versions of IE. Check here for more info, and a possible workaround for the PNG problem: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bobosola/pngtest.htm From: users-bounces(a)xwiki.org [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mattia_temp-newsgroup(a)yahoo.it Sent: 10 January 2008 11:01 To: XWiki Users Subject: [xwiki-users] Graphical problem Hi everybody, Sorry for the silly question, but i have an annoying problem on custom icon visualization. The background of them appear correctly transparent in firefox, instead in explorer it appear as "lightgrey" (as shown in the image attached) The png have been created with Paint.NET 3.0... Does anyone had the same problem? How do you solve it? Thank you!! Mattia L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail ___________________________________ L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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[xwiki-users] Restricting Images
by Josef Pfleger 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

For a current project, I would like to limit users in the way they use images. I want to 1) allow all users to edit pages 2) disable file upload for all users except my 'ImageEditors' group (i.e. no attachments) 3) make sure users only use images uploaded by an 'ImageEditors' Unfortunately I found it very difficult to implement aforementioned requirements in XWiki. XWiki does not implement a designated 'attachment' access level, turning off images is not trivial and file upload can not be configured. After creating a user group 'ImageEditors', I created two different spaces, 'Main' and 'Images' and set the space rights for 'Images' to 'view' for all users and to 'edit' for 'ImageEditors'. While all users can still edit 'Main'-space-pages, only 'ImageEditors' can edit 'Images'-space-pages (and thus upload attachments to these pages). To restrict image use, I replaced the com.xpn.xwiki.render.macro.ImageMacro with my own code (external jar) that only renders image tags using attachments from the 'Images' space. For every macro call, it checks if a page with the same name exists in the 'Images' space and renders this (parallel) page's attachment (if found). Since 'Main'-space-page attachments are ignored, only attachments uploaded by 'ImageEditors' are published. Finally, I customized the skin in a way that, in edit mode, images can be conveniently picked from the respective (parallel) 'Images'-space-page and also removed all file upload skin code for non-'ImageEditors'. This works and meets my requirements with the minor flaw that all users can still upload arbitrary files to 'Main'-space-pages when posting to the upload URL directly. ---------- Is there an easier/better/simpler way of accomplishing the above? I'd appreciate any comments. Thank you, Josef

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[xwiki-users] new user registration
by wangwh＠att.net 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hi, Anyone know the when and why about this..... "Our registration page is currently getting a spam attack. We have needed to disable registration until we find a solution to block the spam attack. We are sorry for the inconvenience but we had to take these measures to keep our platform running." We can't add users to sites on the XWiki farm? Is the problem being worked on? Wei-hsing

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[xwiki-users] Is paid support for installing XWiki available?
by Jack William Bell 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

I am willing to pay a reasonable amount for someone with experience doing it to install XWiki for me. I have a shared server account with MySQL and Tomcat support (I have my own Tomcat instance). I need XWiki installed so that the front page of the site is the main XWiki page. I could do this myself of course, but am short of time for learning how. I would like to have the site working within a week or two at most. Please respond directly to me with quotes and requirements. My email address is jackb [at sign here] sff [dot here] net. -- >>>>Jack William Bell<<<< # Tasty links: http://del.icio.us/JackWilliamBell # Blather: http://www.livejournal.com/users/jackwilliambell/ # Quote: "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." -- James Madison # Processor halt: Divide by zero error (A42) #

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[xwiki-users] [ANN] XWiki Enterprise 1.2 RC3 Released
by Vincent Massol 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

The XWiki development team is pleased to announce the release of XWiki Enterprise 1.2 RC 3. Go grab it at http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Download This is the third and hopefully last release candidate for the 1.2 version. It fixes several bugs, especially regading Oracle support. The final release is still planned for mid-January. Changes from 1.2RC2: * XWIKI-1993: Database schema update issue when migrating from XE 1.1.2 to 1.2 RC2 on Oracle 10g * XWIKI-1995: Error inserting NULL values in NOT-NULL fields under Oracle for Version Comments/Authors * XWIKI-1975: Exception displayed in the log when upgrading from a previous 1.2 release to 1.2 RC2 * XWIKI-1979: FileUploadPlugin should not call cleanFileList in endRendering * XWIKI-1981: UI issue when using the new rights managements UI with IE7 * XWIKI-1946: Attachment renaming in the WYSIWYG Editor doesn't keep the file extension * XE-175: Show the "delete" button next to members in the group only when the group is edited For more information see the Release notes at: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ReleaseNotesXWikiEnterprise12RC3 Thanks -The XWiki dev team

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