[pmwiki-users] Standalone Problems

[The Editor]

On 10/15/06, G H <gegohouse at gmx.net> wrote:
> Novice user here. While browsing I found PMwiki and wanted to
> implement my personal notebook with it on my local pc.
>
> I am using a laptop with Win XP Pro Service Pack 2. This is what I
> did:
>
> 1. 2 HDDs - I installed in D:\wiki\
> 2. downloaded server.zip from Cookbook\Standalone and executed it
> 3. tried to run it, didn't work ( http:\\localhost\wiki\ )
> 4. tried to provide the install dir manually in pmwikiserv.bat and
> pmwikiserv.php but it didnt work. I tried it with and without a final
> \ after the dir and there were two reactions:
>
> When written with a \ at the end (D:\wiki\) a dos windows flashed for
> a sec and my PC told me to "Echo off" (hope this is not his way of
> saying f*** you)
>
> When written without a \ at the end, a loop started which could only
> be terminated by closing the Dos win by force (hargh) with my poor
> laptop brabbling the following lines ad infinitum:
>
> --start--
>
> n in <b>D:\wiki\server\pmwikiserv.php</b> on line <b>84</b><br />  <br />
>
> <b>Warning</b>: socket_accept<> unable to accept incoming connection
> [0]: Ein ungueltiges Argumet wurde eingegeben (translation: no valid
> argument).
>
> and
> again
>
> --stop--
>
>
> I then looked into line 84 to see what my laptop was crying about...
>
> --start--
>
> # MainServerLoop creates a socket for incoming connections,
> # binds the socket, waits for an incoming connection, and then
> # calls ProcessRequest() to process the connection.  Someday we'll
> # turn this into a threaded server, but for the moment it can only
> # handle one request at a time.
>
> function MainServerLoop() {
>   global $Listen, $AcceptSocket, $PmWikiDir;
>
>   set_time_limit(0);
>   chdir($PmWikiDir);
>
>   list($ip, $port) = explode(':', $Listen, 2);
>
>   if (!function_exists('socket_create')) dl('php_sockets.dll');
>   $AcceptSocket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 6);
>   socket_bind($AcceptSocket, $ip, $port);
>   socket_listen($AcceptSocket);
>   print "Started...ready for requests\n";
>   while (true) {
>     $ClientSocket = socket_accept($AcceptSocket);
>     ProcessRequest($ClientSocket);
>     socket_close($ClientSocket);
>   }
>   socket_close($AcceptSocket);
> }
>
> --stop--
>
>
> Alternative:
>
> So I tried an alternative by installing Abyss Webserver X1 with php 5.
> Works fine but I do not have the knowledge on how to get to my wiki.
> Opening php files with dreamweaver does not seem to be the way...
>
>
>
> So far so bad - anyone here to suggest something to get this thing
> startig on my laptop ?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> a hopeful
>
>
> gego
>
> Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud <at> pobox.com> writes:
>
> > Actually, I wasn't feeling like doing much else this weekend
> > so I went ahead and implemented a "standalone system" for PmWiki,
> > now available at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Standalone.
> > It's primarily targeted at Microsoft Windows hosts at the moment,
> > although with a minor configuration change it can run within Unix
> > environments.
> >
>
> Very, very novice user here. I like the idea; I can play with the skins and such
> without having to upload files to my main server all the time. (I modify things
> in many tiny steps.)
>
> But, I can't get it to work.
>
> I installed the standalone server as described in
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Standalone  (the server.zip file), ran the
> .bat file (and kept it running).
>
> I then tried to run pmwiki.php in my browser (Firefox 1.5).
>
> The browser shows me a bunch of what looks like code for a fraction of a second,
> then says:
>
> Firefox can't find the file at /C:/Documents and Settings/All
> Users/Documents/data/_sandy/pmwiki-play/$pageurl.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Susan

I'm not a tech person, but I was able to install apache and php on my
home XP system very easily.  You might consider that option.  They
both have very easy windows installers, and I have never had a lick of
trouble with either.

I did try the standalone server but didn't find it very satisfying, as
it seems to be quite limited, and quite slow.

Something slightly easier than apache and php is the joomla standalone
server (jsas).  You can try googling it.  But it works fine.  The only
thing is you have to manually start it up, and you have to remember to
use something like localhost:85.  Otherwise it's a nice solution.  I
have it up at my office running fine.  There are also other
apache/php/msql combo's out there you could look at.  But JSAS is
designed for folks like us.  And I know it works with PmWiki

As for your specific problem, if you have your webserver and php going
properly you should type something like the following into your
browser to get to open it up.

http://localhost/path/to/pmwiki.php

Be sure to insert the right path of course.  Also, be sure to set the
path relative to whatever directory your webserver stores your web
files.  On apache it's a folder called htdocs .  In joomla its www I
think.  In webabyss it may be something different still.  Hope this
helps.

Some of the more IT kind of folks on the list can surely help you more.

Cheers,
Caveman