Installation

You don't have to be a web developer or programmer to install Tikiwiki. TikiWiki has an installer which will do most of the work for you, and the rest can be done from your control panel.

Free Installations: If you are a complete novice (or are just not into DIY) most Tiki friendly hosts will setup tiki for you free of charge.


Related pages:

Installation FAQ Installation Problems- use this page to get help. Installation Guides - recipes, tips and detailed knowledge about specific hosting environments Migrate to Tikiwiki Move Tiki to a new server Multilingual Installation Reinstall - to point tiki to a new Database or re-run an upgrade Upgrade

Tiki in Ten minutes - a recipe for command line installations. Install by SSH? Install by FTP Install by Fantastico? — an example of this is Siteground Installation Using SSH (for newbies) Using FTP? (for newbies)

For more information on the Tiki installation process

• Install Tiki Help is there for you if anything does not work right...
• Database Performance and Tikiwiki Performance Tuning have tips to improve server performance

Before You Begin

Before installing, please read the Requirements and Setup information. Proper planning can ensure a worry-free installation. If you are looking for a new webhost, we have a list of TikiFriendlyHosts. The instructions below are generic (ex.: shared hosting). You can also see: Installation Guides

Pre-requisites basic checklist

• You have a working server with PHP, Apache and a database, such as MySQL.

Step 1. Create the database

Tiki currently runs with MySQL and PostgreSQL. Most of the documentation assumes you're using MySQL. Postgres users however have a page? for some information.

Many hosts offer a point & click interface to create databases and DB users. For example, if you have Cpanel? you probably can see PHPmyAdmin? in the main menu, or under the section marked databases. Creating a database an user is a very simple operation - essentially it is (at this point) just a blank file that will get populated with tables and information by the installer.

The Three steps of Database Setup.

1. create a database

• don't get fancy with the name, use "tiki" and in PHPmyadmin, your full database name will be "accountname_tiki" - alternately, if you plan to have more than one tiki install in this account, use "sitename" instead of "tiki". Write this name down, you will need it in a few minutes.

2. create a database user (with password)

• again, don't get fancy with the name, use the exact same name for the user as you did for the DB.
• Use a strong password. if you lose it (likely) look it up someday in local.php. Write this password down, you will need it soon.

3. give all permissions to user on database.

1. just give "all permissions"

Congrats. You have a database ready to use and you have the username, password and database name. If not, please visit: Create a database for TikiWiki

Step 2: Download

Download the current version of Tiki to you local computer from SourceForge.

The full download is ~10MB.

Step 3: Upload

Decompress (unzip) the file and move all the Tiki files to your server. If you have a hosted webserver, you can simply use FTP to move the files.

Time for more coffee?

Step 4: Go to your website.

Open your browser and point to where your new website ought to be. If all is well, you will be invited to run tiki-install.php (go to next step). Otherwise, TikiWiki will advise that it needs to be able to write to certain directories and will detect if the permissions are set correctly. If there is a problem, you will see instructions to solve.

Step 5: Run tiki-install.php

In English:
Open a web browser to:http://www.yourdomain.com/tiki-install.php

In other languages (since TikiWiki v1.9.7 onwards):
Open a web browser to:http://www.yourdomain.com/tiki-install.php?lang=XX

where XX is the language code of your preference, to have the interface in your language provided that it has beeen translated already.

In either case, enter your database name, username, and password. (forgotten it already?)

Alternate step 5 without tiki-install.php

Please see: Manual Installation

Step 6: Log in for the first time

Log in using the login box in the right-hand column.

1. Enter those informations :
   1. user: Enter admin.
   2. pass: Enter admin.
2. Click login.

Step 7: Change the default password.

Use a strong password. You may want to logout right away, and login again, letting your password manager record your password.

Step 8: Congratulations !

It is recommended to create a new user and give him admin privileges instead of regularly using the admin account. You can now explore the interface but you should check the extra steps before to get you started.

Step 9: Configure Your TikiWiki

Please visit Initial Configuration to explain the recommended next steps, or configuration for the table of contents replated to configuring tikiwiki.

For more information on the Tiki installation process...

You can check these specific pages: Installation FAQ, Installation Problems, Migrate to Tikiwiki or Upgrade, or just keep reading any of the following pages of this section of the documentation.

• Requirements and Setup
• Download
• Shared Hosting
• Linux
  • Install with RPM
  • Install on Debian
  • Install on Gentoo
• Windows Desktop Install
• Advanced Settings
  • Lite Install
  • MultiTiki
    • MultiTiki 1.9
    • MultiTiki Akira
  • Rewrite Rules
  • ImageMagick Install
  • GraphViz Install
• TroubleShooting
• Upgrade
  • Upgrade 1.8.x to 1.9.y
  • Upgrade 1.9.x to 1.9.y
  • Upgrade 1.9.x to 2.0.y
• Security Admin

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