Reccomendation for tools to use on FreeBSD for a wiki ?

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 19 10:44:10 PST 2008


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:08:03AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Julian Stacey <jhs at berklix.org> wrote:
> > Hi hackers,
> > Maybe Some of you might suggest some software I might install, Wiki I guess. ?
> > I got zero response from ports@,  I could use some reccomendations please.
> > PS From http://wiki.freebsd.org/HelpContents     I tried
> >        cd /usr/ports/www ; vi *iki*/pkg-descr
> >        or is /usr/ports/www/moinmoin  the way to go ?
> > Thanks.
> > -----------
> >
> > Subject: Reccomendation for ports for web based club events forthcoming diary ?
> >
> > Can anyone reccomend some ports to install on a FreeBSD web server,
> > for a club of mostly non technical people, to support:
> >  - All club members can add events to a forthcoming calendar,
> >  - All club members can request server to prepare a listing
> >    of next next upcoming events, to download (probably in PDF,
> >    or perhaps tbl to a pipe or ?
> >  - A list of moderators can delete fake events from robots & the malicious.
> >  - Preferably moderators should not themselves be capable of
> >    deleting logged event submission, but only capable of deleting
> >    events formatted to the ouput printable programme sheet. (To
> >    autopsy for suspect rogue moderators)
> >  - I guess first entry criteria might be a fuzzy picture for human
> >    to decode password from). 2nd might be mail return for confirm password,
> >  - & 3rd, A majordomo (later mailman) maintained list of club members &
> >    moderators etc is available for automated validation.
> >  - I hope there will be some packages available,
> >    http & probably wiki based etc, that will come close enough ?
> > I'm hoping this has been done often enough that people can suggest
> > names of ports already existing ? If not I dont mind creating a
> > port if I have to, but dont want to write something from scratch.
> >
> > PS
> > - - I've had apache up for years, but no wiki yet, so if any tips,
> >  shout please, even if just RTFM URL=.... :-)
> > - - Web based forums I don't care about, but others may, so I suppose if some
> >  software does & does not support web forums, it'd be good to know.
> >
> > Suggestions welcome please ! Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Julian
> 
> Julian,
>      FWIW, ports@ or questions@ would be better lists than hackers at .

He asked this on -ports only 2 days ago and received no response.  So he
appears to be going from list to list hoping someone will answer him.

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