Atul Vaidya writes:
Would it be possible to create the entire documentation content on my computer (Windows 7 32 bit) and then transfer the entire installation to my server (CentOS 64 bit) or am I liable to run into too many issues.
The content (texts and uploaded files) can usually be transferred without any problem, but before that the online installation needs to be working correctly - skin, recipes, passwords. The two config.php files should be mostly the same.
It is possible that the passwords need to be reset; PHP on different systems use different functions to hash and check the passwords, so a password set on one system may be unrecognized on another. If you use group or page passwords, you may have to reset them on the remote system after every update of the protected pages. If you set password hashes in config.php, just use your-online-wiki/pmwiki.php?action=crypt to get the hashes.
There is also the issue of uppercase extensions of the uploaded files. On Windows you can have file.JPG or file.jpg and both will work fine. On a server only file.jpg with lowercase extension will work. So, it is easier to remember to always have your uploaded files with lowercase extensions - easier than to try to fix them later. If you upload your files via the PmWiki interface, they will be correctly renamed to lowercase, but on a WAMP server you can just place the files on the filesystem.
Other than that, as Simon said, in some cases the $ScriptUrl and $PubDirUrl variables need to be set or changed. But usually the default ones work fine.
After the two installations are working and looking mostly the same way, you only need to transfer the files in the wiki.d and uploads directories. When you update the content on one installation, just sync it to the other.
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