TWiki on Mac OS-X

This is a supplement to TWiki:TWiki.TWikiInstallationGuide; see also: MacOSXInstallNotes

See MacOS for general information.

See UnicodeMac for problems in implementing UseUTF8 on Macs for improved I18N support.

Sample installations

• TWikiOnMacOSXJaguar (10.2)
• TWikiOnMacOSXPanther (10.3)
• TWikiOnMacOSXTiger (10.4)
• TWikiOnMacOSXLeopard (10.5)

N.B. This page used to include the TWikiOnMacOSXTiger page. This confused several people. I have put a prebuilt .DMG in TWikiOnMacOSXTiger that makes installation easy.

-- BryanLarsen - 19 Feb 2007

Run TWiki as unprivileged user

A clean alternative I prefer is to create an unprivileged ordinary user named twiki and put the twiki files in ~twiki/Sites/

• ~twiki provides a natural holding pen for various TWiki related downloads For example, I unzipped the twiki distribution into ~twiki/Virgin/ to serve as a reference copy against which to run diff to compare with the live install. The command diff -r Sites Virgin gives you the works.
• Most TWiki maintenence which cannot be done from the web interface can be done as the twiki user.
• Apache Configuration can be done in Apple's httpd.conf includes files found in /private/etc/httpd/users/ which simplifies configuration in a way that will not be clobbered when Apple makes updates to the system files.

-- DickFurnas - 05 Jan 2004

Install Perl libraries

Some libraries does not come with standard MacOS and have to be installed by hand.

To "make" the Perl modules, you must install the Mac OS X Developer tools which are on their own CD. These tools must match the version of Mac OS X you are running.

1. First search for desired module on http://search.cpan.org and download it.
2. Drag the folder into the Library/Perl folder (directory)
3. If the "tar.gz" files which you downloaded did NOT automatically extract, then still drag the files into the /Library/Perl folder and open a Terminal window. Extract the folders with the command:
   • sudo tar xvfz PERL-MODULE-NAME.tar.gz
4. make the module with the following commands:
   • cd /Library/Perl/PERL-MODULE-NAME
   • sudo Perl Makefile.PL
   • sudo make
   • sudo make install

Comments

VMware has announced VMware for Mac - once this is available later in 2006, this could provide an easy way of installing TWiki on Mac without requiring Unix or TWiki skills, using TWikiVMDebianStable.

-- RichardDonkin - 09 Aug 2006

Hi Peter, I'm also interested in getting TWiki working on Leopard because that's what I have at home and I want to be able to test things out there. Is it possible to get the core TWiki package installed on Leopard without relying on the installer? Thanks!

-- GarySprague - 13 Aug 2008