Installation FAQ

See the Linux install guides above for official MindTouch installation guides for most popular Linux distributions FIRST before using one of the community contributed/edited install guides below.

This section is a community effort to collaborate on insights and solutions in order to facilitate the debugging of the installation and modification of Deki Wiki. Where the forum discusses very specific issues, the wiki is meant to store the common ground facts in an easy to find manner. Please feel free to refine the content & add your contributions.

If you have never been here before, it is recommended to work through the sections in order as they appear below.

Sections:
A. Pro's and Con's of a Virtual Machine installation
B. A Basic Overview of Deki Wiki Architecture
C. Deki Wiki Dependency Lists
D. Variations From Standard Installations
E. Debugging Pathway
F. Errors and their Possible Solutions
G. Can Deki Wiki be installed on Shared Hosting? 

The easier Deki Wiki installs and configures the more developers will eventually be involved to collaborate on one of the world's most powerful open source systems...