Manual talk:Installing on MoWeS Portable (Windows)

Question on Instructions:
Step three goes like this:

--- 3. The default for the apache web server is to listen on port 80 of the host machine. This is likely to cause problems if there's an existing server on your target machine. To change the port number, open the file apache2\conf\httpd.conf in a text editor like notepad.

1. Search for the line that says Listen 80 and change it to Listen 127.0.0.1:8080 2. Search for the line that says ServerName localhost:80 and change it to ServerName 127.0.0.1:8080

* IANA Port Numbers: o 80: World Wide Web (HTTP) o 8080: HTTP Alternate o 443: HTTP protocol over TLS/SSL (HTTPS) o 49152 through 65535: Dynamic and/or Private Ports o 1024 through 49151 should not be used on the Internet without IANA registration.

--- I've been very slow and deliberate and been very careful to do everything EXACTLY as described. And my question is when it starts into the "IANA port numbers... " um.... do you want me to DO something with those? there are no instructions to do anything about them, so I did nothing. and now when I try to go to the next step, and run "wow" I get this error: The file "g:\\wow\old.dir is not writable. WOS can not run correctly without writing this file." (G is my thumb drive) These two problems may not be connected. So I checked "archive" on that file and it works without the error message, but I just get a prompt message flash up then I get the other screen and it says both servers are NOT running. help! :) help! --Eckre 03:42, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Question
The Hints describe saving space by deleting PHP4 or PHP5 folder, after selecting the one you want to use. I tried selecting 5 and deleted 4 and ended up broken. WOS would not start up until I restored the php4 folder.

Question:
When I set this up, it doesn't allow pages to be deleted, even if I log in as WikiSysop. The "delete" tab comes up, and it asks me to "confirm delete", but the "delete page" button does not delete the page - it just goes back to the "confirm delete" page.

Note: "move" page also doesn't work.

Answer: (I figured it out myself!)
You need to create a directory  if you are using php5, or   if you are using php4.

If you look in the W:\apache2\logs\error.log file (you made it in step 5, right?), it says:

Speed
My WoWoS seems to run slightly slower than wikipedia.org (on a busy day). What can I do to speed it up? Can I install memcached? Rich  Farmbrough 10:44 12  July 2006 (UTC).
 * INterestingly it seems to have sped up a bit "on its own". Rich  Farmbrough 12:22 27  July 2006 (UTC).

(I'm confused. Isn't your WoWoS on a USB stick, connected to your local computer? What does "on a busy day" mean when there should be no one but you accessing it.)
 * I think he means Wikipedia on a busy day, not his personal wiki.
 * Make sure you install on a USB2.0 drive, not a usb1.1 drive, and that you connect to a usb2.0 port. The difference is profound.

Question:
I have a working Wiki on a Stick, set up as described. However, the computer I plug the stick into also has a WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) wiki. It seems that the CH Software WOS will start up Apache properly, and it reports that MySQL Server is running, but I can't access the MySQL database. The error message is "Access denied for user 'mywiki'@'localhost' (using password: YES) (localhost))". If I stop the WAMP MySQL server, and restart the WOS MySQL server, then the Wiki on a Stick works, but the WAMP wiki has the same error message. (Checking services says that both Apache servers and both MySQL servers can run at the same time.)
 * You're probibly trying to run both MySQL servers on port 3306, which is the default MySQL port. However, when your Wiki on a Stick tries to access it's MySQL server it goes to the first one that was started on the machine, which in this case is the wrong one. Try changing the port for the MySQL server you have on your USB device to 3307, the setting for that can be found in your my.ini file in the MySQL server's root directory. Just look for the line that reads "Port=3306", without the quotations, and change it to 3307 or another port of your choice. Paul Barkley 18:35, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Does it work on a CD
Has anybody tried to install this on a CD-rom or DVD instead of a stick? is it possible?
 * Where would you save wiki edits? I would guess that RW media works.
 * You could use WOS Presenter ([www.chsoftware.net/en/products/wospresenter/])

Uniform Server will run on Win98/ME
CH Software requires Win2K/XP. Uniform Server will run on Win98/ME.-69.87.199.193 02:38, 30 January 2008 (UTC)