That's right, on Redhat Enterprise and Centos, it’s now just as easy to install Foswiki and its ~300 plugins as it is on Debian.

• Debian repository for Foswiki
• Centos6 and RHEL6 repository for Foswiki

This means you can now manage your Enterprise Foswiki using the same package management tools as the rest of the operating system.

For example, I just installed a demo system with:

yum install foswiki-jhotdrawplugin foswiki-ldapcontrib foswiki-newuserplugin foswiki-glueplugin foswiki-ldapngplugin foswiki-calendarplugin foswiki-edittableplugin foswiki-interwikiplugin foswiki-renderlistplugin foswiki-smiliesplugin foswiki-tableplugin foswiki-directedgraphplugin

and when yum finished, I was able to browse to http://server/foswiki/ to see it up and running.

These packages are built by a script that downloads the latest packages from Extensions/, generates an EPM manifest and then builds rpm packages – every night. I have not yet tested them with Redhat Enterprise 6 or Fedora.

To try it out, you’ll need to add the EPEL repository, and then this one to your yum config:

su
rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
cd /etc/yum.repo.d/
wget http://fosiki.com/Foswiki_rpms/foswiki.repo

and then run

yum makecache

To see what Foswiki extensions are available, run:

yum search foswiki

To install Foswiki, and some plugins:

yum install foswiki foswiki-workflowplugin foswiki-jscalendarcontrib foswiki-ldapcontrib

then browse to http://servername/foswiki/bin/configure to enable the plugin and configure settings.

Comments (edit)

TolgaYaman - 01 Feb 2013:

It's been a while since the topic created Epel repo changed to: http://mirror.vit.com.tr/mirror/Epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

I've just install with yum package.

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