Attention: We moved our codebase to Mercurial: http://groups.google.com/group/ontowiki-user/browse_thread/thread/5138e8d16402442e

Requirements

In order to install OntoWiki from SubVersion you need:

• PHP 5.2
• mod_rewrite allowed in target directory (optional, used for nice uris and LinkedData features)
• .htaccess allowed in target directory
• One of these:
• An installed MySQL Server or Virtuoso Server, a created database on that server and an account which is able to read and write that database
• An Install Virtuoso Server (see UsingOntoWikiWithVirtuoso for more information about OntoWiki and Virtuoso)

Download

An OntoWiki installation can be downloaded by only one checkout. This checkout downloads OntoWiki, Erfurt, Zend and the RDFa Widgets. Have a look at this checkout page for more information about this.

Configuration

The most important configuration step is the database configuration. First you have to copy these files:

cd /path/to/ontowiki
cp htaccess-dist .htaccess
cp config.ini-dist config.ini

Then you need to change the database configuration in your config.ini: %% store.zenddb.dbname = ontowiki ; your configured DB name store.zenddb.username = ow ; the username to your database server store.zenddb.password = ow ; the pass for this user store.zenddb.dbtype = mysql ; at the moment only mysql tested ;store.zenddb.host = localhost ; default is localhost %%

After that, go to your OntoWiki URL in your browser (e.g. 'http://localhost/ontowiki/'), and voila - there is you OntoWiki :-) If you are new to OntoWiki you can read the First Steps Documentation now.

Troubleshooting

Please make sure that Apache reads the .htaccess file. (see http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/htaccess.html#troubleshoot) and the rewrite engine (module rewrite load) is enabled. Otherwise, URI rewrites will not work.