Question

I was wondering if it's possible to run Twiki as a standalone app on my PC? I have it running on my public website, but it just seems like it could also be a nice personal information manager running offline on my personal PC.

Is this doable?

Thanks,

-- SteveDowell - 04 May 2003

Answer

Sure, see the WindowsInstallSummary, you just install a free webserver such as Apache and have it listen to localhost only. You may want to use the mod_perl cookbook linked from the main cookbook, since that provides much better performance.

-- RichardDonkin - 04 May 2003

I just wanted to add that solution proposed by Richard will run require webserver on your PC (even for localhost), and you still use browser to access pages. So it is not app like Word. Also, I am using Twiki as personal info space and found out is it extremely usefull to allow access from other computers (like from home), i.e. for maintaining bookmarks in one place. You will loose this if only localhost cann access your personal Twiki.

-- PeterMasiar - 05 May 2003

Thanks Guys. I downloaded Apache and Cygwin this morning and got them both installed. Haven't done much beyond that, except called up //localhost/ in my browser (which seemed to work). I was following the Cookbook and I know I've got to do some more config file changes before I try launching TWiki for real.

What I'm doing is fine, but as Peter indicated, I was really asking about using TWiki as a standalone PC app like Word. That would be cool too.

Thanks,

-- SteveDowell - 05 May 2003