Re: [xwiki-users] Tomcat BSD Nginx
I have now installed Nginx and done a proxy through to tomcat, its.. quite.. slow.. IMO, probably cause its Java? - Eric On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Paul Libbrecht p...@hoplahup.net wrote: Le 11 déc. 2010 à 04:52, Eric Tse a écrit : So based on your experiences, or anyone else's is MySQL better, persay vs PostgresSQL? Tasteful speaking I always preferred Postgres (more strict open-source, more sys-admin-oriented) but I know MySQL is more widespread and sometimes faster. So since tomcat is a httpd server should I still use Ngninx as a proxy? The thing is. When you run a product web-site you generally do not want it to be run as root or any power user: it should be run as a user that barely can do something on the local machine because of the risk to execute things. XWiki is an environment where any administrator can execute any process very easily. In a normal unix environment you would create a user httpd and run the web-server with that user. Typically, however, the user httpd cannot even login and has no home, the servers are started as root than change the user. Is your nginx deployment doing all that? Apache normal deployments do. paul ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
[xwiki-users] Tomcat BSD Nginx
How can I change Tomcat to use port 80 instead of 8180? I tried changing the connector port in the xml file then restarted but with no avail.. Also is there a benefit from using Nginx to proxy into Tomcat? If so how would one do that? Thanks :) - Eric ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] Tomcat BSD Nginx
Thanks but I don't plan on using Apache the only thing installed on my BSD VPS is diablo jdk , tomcat and xwiki. I followed the tutorial on how to install xwiki on FreeBSD on the dev page of xwiki. Now that being said, is tomcat a httpd server? If not then I'm guessing I have to install nginx and proxy it to tomcat. Also since xwiki is java based, I don't have to install pop? Unless I want to serve php? Also how well does PostgresSQL fair in large wikis On Dec 10, 2010 1:33 PM, Paul Libbrecht p...@hoplahup.net wrote: Le 10 déc. 2010 à 21:54, Eric Tse a écrit : How can I change Tomcat to use port 80 instead of 8180? I tried changing the connector port in the xml file then restarted but with no avail.. That's a tomcat question. As far as I know you did the right thing. Do restart tomcat and don't forget to be root (which is not really correct). Also is there a benefit from using Nginx to proxy into Tomcat? If so how would one do that? I don't know about Nginx but we generally keep Tomcat on a high port and keep an Apache httpd on port 80 with a simple proxy. That works very well. Then only Apache needs root access and the latter takes care of changing the user after the restart (which no servlet container I know does, it's a native thing). Proxies can become a lot more tuned if using mod_rewrite (e.g. to guarantee some short URLs in a very very flexible way, allow https, ...). paul ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] Tomcat BSD Nginx
So based on your experiences, or anyone else's is MySQL better, persay vs PostgresSQL? So since tomcat is a httpd server should I still use Ngninx as a proxy? - Eric On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Paul Libbrecht p...@hoplahup.net wrote: Le 10 déc. 2010 à 22:40, Eric Tse a écrit : Thanks but I don't plan on using Apache the only thing installed on my BSD VPS is diablo jdk , tomcat and xwiki. I followed the tutorial on how to install xwiki on FreeBSD on the dev page of xwiki. Now that being said, is tomcat a httpd server? It is. If not then I'm guessing I have to install nginx and proxy it to tomcat. Also since xwiki is java based, I don't have to install pop? Unless I want to serve php? XWiki or tomcat are independent of PHP. Also how well does PostgresSQL fair in large wikis I think it can score well. I encountered, however, a few issues while trying to get some applications based on xwiki in active use. The generated SQL was incompatible with PostgreSQL. As a rule of the thumb, I think workability with MySQL is considerably more tested. paul On Dec 10, 2010 1:33 PM, Paul Libbrecht p...@hoplahup.net wrote: Le 10 déc. 2010 à 21:54, Eric Tse a écrit : How can I change Tomcat to use port 80 instead of 8180? I tried changing the connector port in the xml file then restarted but with no avail.. That's a tomcat question. As far as I know you did the right thing. Do restart tomcat and don't forget to be root (which is not really correct). Also is there a benefit from using Nginx to proxy into Tomcat? If so how would one do that? I don't know about Nginx but we generally keep Tomcat on a high port and keep an Apache httpd on port 80 with a simple proxy. That works very well. Then only Apache needs root access and the latter takes care of changing the user after the restart (which no servlet container I know does, it's a native thing). Proxies can become a lot more tuned if using mod_rewrite (e.g. to guarantee some short URLs in a very very flexible way, allow https, ...). paul ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
[xwiki-users] Nginx and Php-fpm
Does anyone how one would install this under Nginx since this uses/wants Apache/Tomcat? ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] Trying to find a wiki software
Thanks for the help. Will go with Xwiki once I get everything set up :) - Eric On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Vincent Massol vinc...@massol.net wrote: On Dec 6, 2010, at 5:12 AM, Eric Tse wrote: Cool cool. Am I able to customize it enough so it looks like an actual website and not a wiki? (Wikipedia style) Yes You can also check some screenshots here: http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Screenshots Thanks -Vincent - Eric On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Ricardo Rodriguez [eBioTIC.] ricardo.rodrig...@ebiotic.net wrote: Hi! Eric Tse wrote: Hey guys, just subscribed to this list. I'm currently stuck between two softwares: XWiki and Foswiki. What I'm looking for is: Speed/Performance Access control (Guests can only read and not modify, certain users can modify) Good theming/Easy theming. An overall good wiki with user-friendly UI. Foswiki is flatfile and xwiki is SQL based. I hear that SQL is generally better, is that the case? Foswiki seems to be pretty fast even if it is flatfile. Thanks :) XWiki is not only a wiki: it is a complete and powerful Java based development framework. I arrived here from MediaWiki looking for access management and I found much, much more than this. I think it is worth you give it a try! Even more: if after playing for a while in the sandbox (http://xoffice.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Sandbox/), or asking and using your own wiki in MyWiki community farm or Netcipia, or installing your own standalone installation, you know how to set up an application server and a supported RDBMS, install and give a try to the last snapshot to feel the newest improvements! Don't forget to use the Create 200 Dummy Users snippet available at... http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Snippets/Create200DummyUsersSnippet ... and play for a while with Users and Groups administration. Out of the box, XWiki features an amazingly powerful rights management system. Of course control who can read or edit a given document of a part of it is not a big issue for XWiki administrators. As for theming. Even though I think teaming is better than theming working with XWiki :-) as many other development areas, it has also evolved greatly in the last months. Some new concepts has been recently introduced, for instance check the Skin Extensions Plugin (http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Plugins/SkinExtensionsPlugin). Right now is really easy to customized colours and logos, and modify any UI characteristic by using Firefox Firebug to track the relevant CSS XWiki code. Perhaps if you only look for a classical wiki, theming is not the most friendly XWiki feature for you. But don't forget this: it is completely scalable, so you should want to forget a bit about theming for a while being sure that what you see in our UI is or will be easily customizable in a near future. XWiki is what it reads in its portal's homepage: The XWiki project offers both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm and products developed on top of it. XWiki Enterprise should be the product you are looking for, but this is only the top of the iceberg. I'm not able to compare the use of flat-files vs RDBMS (SQL is just the standard language that allows you to query such databases). BUT, once again, don't forget that XWiki is more than a wiki. It uses a RDBMS to hold a complex object-oriented structure. You can also use its SQL plugin to query local or remote RDBMS tables, but also can its API methods to design complex queries using HQL (Hibernate Query Language) or XWQL (XWiki Query Language) More: each XWiki document could be considered a database on its own! It could be composed of an unlimited number of objects + plain or more or less structured text. Sticks with XWiki and won't only create a classical, fast and full featured wiki but discover a full and funny universe of great possibilities. And, most important of all: you will meet a great community and development team! Just my two cents! Ricardo - Eric ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
[xwiki-users] Specs
What are the recommended specs for a server to run XWiki? I understand this is quite a vague question as there are many variables to consider. I would like to run this on a VPS so a general spec would be nice. Thanks - Eric ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
[xwiki-users] Trying to find a wiki software
Hey guys, just subscribed to this list. I'm currently stuck between two softwares: XWiki and Foswiki. What I'm looking for is: Speed/Performance Access control (Guests can only read and not modify, certain users can modify) Good theming/Easy theming. An overall good wiki with user-friendly UI. Foswiki is flatfile and xwiki is SQL based. I hear that SQL is generally better, is that the case? Foswiki seems to be pretty fast even if it is flatfile. Thanks :) - Eric ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [xwiki-users] Trying to find a wiki software
Cool cool. Am I able to customize it enough so it looks like an actual website and not a wiki? (Wikipedia style) - Eric On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Ricardo Rodriguez [eBioTIC.] ricardo.rodrig...@ebiotic.net wrote: Hi! Eric Tse wrote: Hey guys, just subscribed to this list. I'm currently stuck between two softwares: XWiki and Foswiki. What I'm looking for is: Speed/Performance Access control (Guests can only read and not modify, certain users can modify) Good theming/Easy theming. An overall good wiki with user-friendly UI. Foswiki is flatfile and xwiki is SQL based. I hear that SQL is generally better, is that the case? Foswiki seems to be pretty fast even if it is flatfile. Thanks :) XWiki is not only a wiki: it is a complete and powerful Java based development framework. I arrived here from MediaWiki looking for access management and I found much, much more than this. I think it is worth you give it a try! Even more: if after playing for a while in the sandbox (http://xoffice.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Sandbox/), or asking and using your own wiki in MyWiki community farm or Netcipia, or installing your own standalone installation, you know how to set up an application server and a supported RDBMS, install and give a try to the last snapshot to feel the newest improvements! Don't forget to use the Create 200 Dummy Users snippet available at... http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Snippets/Create200DummyUsersSnippet ... and play for a while with Users and Groups administration. Out of the box, XWiki features an amazingly powerful rights management system. Of course control who can read or edit a given document of a part of it is not a big issue for XWiki administrators. As for theming. Even though I think teaming is better than theming working with XWiki :-) as many other development areas, it has also evolved greatly in the last months. Some new concepts has been recently introduced, for instance check the Skin Extensions Plugin (http://code.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Plugins/SkinExtensionsPlugin). Right now is really easy to customized colours and logos, and modify any UI characteristic by using Firefox Firebug to track the relevant CSS XWiki code. Perhaps if you only look for a classical wiki, theming is not the most friendly XWiki feature for you. But don't forget this: it is completely scalable, so you should want to forget a bit about theming for a while being sure that what you see in our UI is or will be easily customizable in a near future. XWiki is what it reads in its portal's homepage: The XWiki project offers both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm and products developed on top of it. XWiki Enterprise should be the product you are looking for, but this is only the top of the iceberg. I'm not able to compare the use of flat-files vs RDBMS (SQL is just the standard language that allows you to query such databases). BUT, once again, don't forget that XWiki is more than a wiki. It uses a RDBMS to hold a complex object-oriented structure. You can also use its SQL plugin to query local or remote RDBMS tables, but also can its API methods to design complex queries using HQL (Hibernate Query Language) or XWQL (XWiki Query Language) More: each XWiki document could be considered a database on its own! It could be composed of an unlimited number of objects + plain or more or less structured text. Sticks with XWiki and won't only create a classical, fast and full featured wiki but discover a full and funny universe of great possibilities. And, most important of all: you will meet a great community and development team! Just my two cents! Ricardo - Eric ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Ricardo Rodríguez CTO eBioTIC. Life Sciences, Data Modeling and Information Management Systems ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users ___ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
