Dear admins!
I have spent days pulling my hair out, trying to find a decent wiki or cms that properly deals with LaTeX[0] (it's not just maths fonts, people...). My search came to an end wih ikiwiki[1], but it's literally the only one I could find. It doesn't have any dependencies server 1 doesn't have --- it basically just uses perl. I ask if could be installed globally more for convenience than anything else.
Thanks!
[0] http://moho.frihost.net/dta/?p=192
[1] http://ikiwiki.info/ can't you just use mediawiki or some other wiki written in php?
I don't think a lot of people will use this functionality if it's installed, and it would just add more workload to the admins or maybe only Bondings because is has to be maintained.
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| can't you just use mediawiki or some other wiki written in php? |
Because not single one, quite literally not a single one, has proper LaTeX support (LaTeX *is* installed on server 1). Were there one, I would jump on it instantly. ikiwiki doesn't really need much maintenance, and that such as it does could be handled by the package manager (IIRC server 1 is running an RPM-based linux distro).Ok, I just spent 3 hours trying to do it myself, and ran into the following problems:
* with no shell acces, you can't really use CPAN (even though it's installed)
* for some reason, all network connections from the frihost server fail (i.e. wget in a PHP system() fails)
* I keep getting 500 errors (and no, it's seriously not a permissions problem) but I can't view any useful logs.
Frihost, HELP!
we can't really do a lot. We need Bondings to do this and since he makes about 10 posts a month I think it'll take a while to read the documentation about this and install it.
I don't think he'll install something without even reading through the documentation so it will take at least an hour.
RPMs available. Frihost server 1 runs CentOS. CentOs is RPM-based. ikiwiki needs no admin configuration (it runs just fine by default, and users can follow the setup guide [http://ikiwiki.info/setup/]). I suggest more like 2 minutes (assuming nothing goes wrong, and the needed perl modules are installed) than 1 hour.
