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WebKNotes
About
WebKNotes is a web based Knowledge database of notes written in Perl, stored in a plain file (text/html) hierarchy. An existing static web page hierarchy can be changed into a interactive system by using WebKnotes.
- Notes and subtopics about anything added by any user.
- Search facility.
- User Authentication
- Users can edit notes they created.
- Notes can be viewed using several different methods, or the files can just be browsed.
- like plain web pages, but anyone can add and edit pages online.
- like newsgroups, but the hiearchy grows, as every note is a catagory.
- like Wiki, but notes are organized in a hiearchy, and notes can be html, text, and now even Wiki files.
- like Slashdot, but not database backed. Webknotes currently would probably not scale well to that level.
WebKNotes is written and maintained by Don Mahurin.
Project
CVS, Forums, Bug tracking and other project stuff are available on the Sourceforge Project Page .Download WebKnotes on the sourceforge download site, or from the sourceforge ftp1 site
Install
Basically, just unpack the archive somewhere, and run ./configure. It will ask questions, install everything, and create the configuration files.Running
The installation process should have copied all the scripts to a cgi-bin directory. The main script that you run is browse.cgi. Use the the cgi-bin path that you chose to run this script.- Example:
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http://yoursite/cgi-bin/wkn/browse.cgi
http://yourispsite/~yourusername/cgi-bin/wkn/browse.cgi
From there you can login, add topics, edit topics, and get file level access.
The "User Accounts" link will allow you to add and modify user permissions. For this, use the administration user created by the configuration script. If for some reason, you have no administration user. You can manually edit a users file(in private directory) and add an 's' to the permissions.
More Information
wiki.htxt - Information on support for Wiki "format"css.htxt - Information on CSS class definitions
css_tables.htxt - Information on CSS bug work arounds
permissions.htxt - List of all the user/group permissions
mod_perl.htxt - Description of support for mod_perl
Copying
WebKNotes is distrubuted under a General ARTISTIC license.Disclaimer
I claim no responsibility for this package. If it harms something in any way whatsoever, It's not my fault. If you do not understand the risks involved in using this package, do not use it.
Sample
Samples with themes ( NEW! )
Now WebKNotes has themes as CSS descriptionsHere are some examples on sourceforge:
SourceForge like
Freshmeat like
Freedos/Happy Peguin like
More Happy Peguin like
Slashdot like
Linux Games like
(You can't currently add anything notes on the wkn on sourceforge)
Supporting this project:
Probably the best support now is just having people use it and tell me about it.