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Building a TWiki VM for production use

A few scribbled ideas on preparing / tuning and offering a TWiki vm for production use if to be downloadable from twiki.org. Maybe even supported.

Comments more than welcome.

Objectives, starting out

  • Tune for Windows use
  • Sensible defaults, try to lower AdminSkillsAssumptions
  • Focus on environment (Apache / Linux), TWiki itself can be replaced or extended in a snap

Need to have

  • Tighten Samba security, user access to file shares / network neighbourhood should be tied to OS user authentication
  • Decide finally on default hostname
  • HOWTO Change unix passwords - security PREREQUISITE for using vm
  • HOWTO Change the hostname to your likings
    • workgroup / server name in samba config
    • hostname in /etc/hosts
    • hostname
  • Document simple userdriven update procedures
    • HOWTO Update to new TWiki version
    • HOWTO Update to bugfix release
    • HOWTO Install a plugin
  • HOWTO enable e-mail subsystem (registration, notification, actions)
  • Internationalisation
    • HOWTO change L10N / I18N-setup to other languages
    • Default language: en_US
    • Installed locales - same as translations

Nice to have

  • Run SpeedyCGI on 'view' as default. Adds problem of how to kill speedy_backends when there's updates to configuration, done e.g. via configure.

Possible tailored distributions

  • Distribution prepared for Kerberos / Windows Active Directory Authentication, "pluggable" in typical MS environment.
  • Distribution prepared for graphical plugins, seems to be a culprit for many people, getting graphic environment set up properly.
    • Install graphics tools for rendering
      • graphviz, htmldoc, pdfgen, imagemagick, dot, etc
  • Distribution containing a full or many-as-possible set of plugins

Thoughts

-- SteffenPoulsen - 19 Jan 2006

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