Set up your own groupware service with Tiki Wiki CMS
Tiki Wiki Content Management System (opens in a new tab) is a powerful open source content management system that can be used to create websites, intranets, and web applications. It’s simply called Tiki.
Tiki functions particularly well as a web-based collaboration tool, and its modular nature allows you to create various types of websites. For example, you can add articles, forums, photo galleries, quizzes, chat, webmail, and FAQs to your tiki site.
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Step 1: Install Tiki Using the Auto-Installer
The fastest way to start using Tiki is to install it using Hostinger’s auto-installer. In the Hostinger web admin panel menu, browse to Auto Installer and select Other. Select Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware from the list.
On the first page of the wizard, you’ll be asked to enter a website name and set up administrative login details. In the subdirectories you can specify the site to install and choose the MySQL database to use.
The second page of the wizard asks which version of Tiki you want to install and whether you want the software to update automatically. After selecting your preferred settings, click Install.
Step 2: Login to your Tiki website
On the Autoinstallers page, right-click Tiki and select Manage. You will be taken to the main page of the Tiki installation. You can edit this page later. Now, click Login and enter the admin user credentials you created in step 1.
Step 3: Run the Profile Wizard
You are now given several options to further set up your tiki site. Click Start Wizard to start the profile wizard.
The wizard provides several commonly used template sites for you to choose from. For example, you can choose to apply a company intranet profile to set up your tiki site to include company news, file repository, and wiki sections. Alternatively, you can choose Personal Blog and Profile, which will include a blog, photo gallery, RSS integration, and video log for your site.
In addition to these large template configuration files, you can choose to apply smaller configuration files that only change certain elements of your tiki site. You can apply multiple profiles at the same time to further customize your site.
Step 4: Run the configuration wizard
After applying your preferred profile, log out and log back in to your tiki site. Select Launch Configuration Wizard. This wizard includes all of the most common preferences that you would typically want to change on your tiki site to make it your own.
There are 18 pages in the wizard, but which pages are available to you depends on which features you currently have enabled. For example, if you applied the Small Business Presence profile in Step 3, the file storage settings will not be included in the configuration wizard because you are not using that feature.
Go through each page, select the correct options for your project, and click Save and Continue until you complete the configuration wizard.
Step 5: Use the Admin Menu and Control Panel
Further configuration can be performed in the administration menu. Click the blue gear at the top of the page, then click Features. Here you can select a list of features to enable or disable.
By clicking Control Panel from the System menu, you can change the settings for each feature you have enabled.
Step 6: Edit your website
Browse to any page on your tiki site and you can click the Edit button to change the page content.
Tiki uses wiki syntax for formatting. For example, text surrounded by two underscores (for example, __text__) means that the text will appear in bold to website visitors. Tiki includes an editor that makes wiki syntax easier to generate, and a pop-up help tool to remind you of all available wiki code syntax.
summarize
In this guide, we’ve shown how to install Tiki Wiki CMS, a powerful web-based content management system with powerful team collaboration features. Tiki requires more initial configuration than a typical website application because it offers so much versatility. Ultimately, the ability to fine-tune your website results in a website that better serves your specific purpose.
Versatility is Tiki’s greatest asset.It’s not just a great tool for online collaboration (opens in a new tab)which is also a powerful content management system (opens in a new tab). Tiki can be used as a document management tool (opens in a new tab)Build a corporate website (opens in a new tab)or for a personal blog (opens in a new tab). By giving Tiki the time it deserves to understand its diverse and complex systems, it can be used as the basis for numerous Internet and intranet applications.
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