VMS wiki running
Creating a new wiki – now for public access – is easy: just run a procedure stating where it should reside, change protection on all files in one location (I guess JFP is going to repair that twist also), create the mapping in the server configuration, and you’re done.
It turned out to be that easy indeed – after spending a considerable amount of time to figure out WHY it didn’t work.
The new wiki is located on a directory: webdisk:[wikis.vmswiki], and I already mapped it in the webserver configuration, but time after time, I got:
directory or file does not exist: /moin_wiki_root/vms/moinwsgi
and I could prove it did. moin_wiki_root = webdisk:[wikis.vmswiki] and it does contain the file I needed.
One thing the procedure does is running @logicals.com. and it tuned out this file contains the twist casuing the failure: at one point, the current directory (found to be Drive:[Web.wikis.vmswiki.vms] is adjusted by removing all [000000 and .VMS parts, and the result is used to define logical moin_wiki_root: drive:[wikiswiki] – the “.VMS” simply trimmed away!
No wonder it failed.
I renamed the directory to prevent this removal, and adjusted the mapping accordingly, and behold: problem solved: it works
Next is moving all static pages that way, and allow adjustments, and add a link in the front page. There is still a lot to learn on this: multi-linguality, security…
A first access will take a lot of time – and, for what I’ve seen so far, a considerable amount of CPU power, but after that, it’s pretty fast. The memroy footprint is less than PHP/MySQL, is seems, CPU being the highest used resource. Well, there is enough power available in that matter.