TWiki Implementation Notes

Platform

TWiki is written in Perl 5 and also uses some shell commands. The current implementation runs best on a Unix machine, but it is also possible on Microsoft Windows. RCS (for revision control) must be installed on the system.

Required Environment by Platform
Package(s): Unix: Windows:
Perl 5.x 5.x
Non-standard Perl modules   MIME::Base64, Digest::SHA1 (for password generation)
Optional Perl modules Net::SMTP (or sendmail) Net::SMTP
RCS 5.7 5.7 (including diff
Other external programs ls, fgrep, egrep ls, fgrep, egrep
Web server Apache Apache, IIS

Directory Structure

Directory: Used for:
twiki/bin TWiki Perl scripts
twiki/lib/TWiki TWiki Perl modules
twiki/lib/TWiki/Plugins Plugins modules
twiki/pub Public files (FileAttachments, images), plus RCS histories
twiki/data source (topic) text, including RCS histories
twiki/templates HTML templates, used by TWiki scripts

Files in twiki/bin

File: Used for:
.htaccess.txt Authentication. Rename to .htaccess and customize if used
attach Script that shows the attach file page (FileAttachment)
delete (not used yet)
edit Script to edit a topic
geturl Script to fetch URL data
mailnotify Script called by cron job to notify users of changes
oops Script that shows an OK or oops dialog
preview Script to preview topic after edit
rdiff Script to see differences of topics
rename Script to rename/move topics and move attachments
register Script to register new users
save Script that saves a topic, called by preview
search Script that displays search results
statistics Script to create statistics topic
testenv Script to test CGI environment variables
upload Script that does file upload (FileAttachment)
view Script to view a topic ( the script )
viewfile Script to view an file attachment

Files in twiki/lib

File: Used for:
TWiki.pm Main TWiki library
TWiki.cfg For initialization and configuration, used by TWiki.pm

Files in twiki/lib/TWiki

File: Used for:
Access.pm Access control
Attach.pm Attachment handling
Meta.pm Meta data in topics
Net.pm SMTP mail handling
Plugins.pm Plugin handling
Prefs.pm Preferences handling
Search.pm Search engine, used by wiki.pm
Store.pm Back-end storage, *.txt text file and *.txt,v RCS repository file handling

Files in twiki/lib/TWiki/Plugins

File: Used for:
DefaultPlugin.pm Default plugin
EmptyPlugin.pm Empty plugin, use to create your own
InterwikiPlugin.pm Refer to external Wikis and other Web sites

-- MikeMannix? - 26 Aug 2001

This topic: TWiki > TWikiSystemRequirements
History: r7 - 28 Aug 2001 - 08:20 - JohnTalintyre?
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