. They cause different formatted responses, of course (would you  
can change to a degree with some CSS fiddling (except  can't be  
affected by that, I believe). Sometimes one will work where the others  
will not.

But the big secret seems to be to split up the tagging. As I recall,  
something like this C++ won't work, but something like this  
will: C++.

You have to approach it empirically. To me, the logic behind this is a bit  
opaque.

Tom C.

On Tue, 16 May 2006 17:23:06 -0700, John Patoskie  
 wrote:

> How can I prevent formatting of text?  I can't seem to escape + and ~
> characters.
>
> Sample Text:  "You use a C++ compiler to compile C++ code."
>
> This causes everything after the initial C++ to be underlined up to the
> next C++.
>
> Sample Text: "change to your home directory ~/ or change into your ~/tmp
> directory"
>
> This causes everything between the ~ to be subscripted.
>
> I thought you could escape it with "\" in front of them, but that isn't
> working.
>
> Suggestions?  I searched faqs, archives, and guides without finding an
> answer.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
> _______________________________________________
> Instiki-users mailing list
> Instiki-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instiki-users

-- 

================================================
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Private practice Psychotherapist
Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226
<< TC.BestMindHealth.com / BestMindHealth.com >>
<< tomcloyd at bestmindhealth.com >>
================================================

From JPatoskie at recursionsw.com  Wed May 17 12:27:44 2006
From: JPatoskie at recursionsw.com (John Patoskie)
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 11:27:44 -0500
Subject: [Instiki] Can't prevent formatting of text
Message-ID: 

Thanks Tom.  

The  tag solved the problem.  I was aware of  and 
tags, but they required changes to fonts size.  The  handles my
specific issues. 

Regards,

John 

-----Original Message-----
From: instiki-users-bounces at rubyforge.org
[mailto:instiki-users-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Tom Cloyd
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 7:53 PM
To: Instiki-users
Subject: Re: [Instiki] Can't prevent formatting of text

John,

I've had this problem, and its solution is NOT documented at the Instiki

wiki, I believe. You do not say exactly how you're trying to prevent the

formatting, and knowing that would be helpful.

I've always solved the problem by trying each of these tags:   
. They cause different formatted responses, of course (would you

can change to a degree with some CSS fiddling (except  can't be

affected by that, I believe). Sometimes one will work where the others  
will not.

But the big secret seems to be to split up the tagging. As I recall,  
something like this C++ won't work, but something like this

will: C++.

You have to approach it empirically. To me, the logic behind this is a
bit  
opaque.

Tom C.

On Tue, 16 May 2006 17:23:06 -0700, John Patoskie  
 wrote:

> How can I prevent formatting of text?  I can't seem to escape + and ~
> characters.
>
> Sample Text:  "You use a C++ compiler to compile C++ code."
>
> This causes everything after the initial C++ to be underlined up to
the
> next C++.
>
> Sample Text: "change to your home directory ~/ or change into your
~/tmp
> directory"
>
> This causes everything between the ~ to be subscripted.
>
> I thought you could escape it with "\" in front of them, but that
isn't
> working.
>
> Suggestions?  I searched faqs, archives, and guides without finding an
> answer.
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
> _______________________________________________
> Instiki-users mailing list
> Instiki-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instiki-users

-- 

================================================
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Private practice Psychotherapist
Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226
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From jperrie at us.ibm.com  Fri May 19 18:39:21 2006
From: jperrie at us.ibm.com (Joseph Perrie)
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 17:39:21 -0500
Subject: [Instiki] InitV Startup Implementation for Instiki on Mongrel
Message-ID: 

I just wrote this InitV startup script for Instiki running on Mongrels on
Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.3 (RHEL4U3).

Tony

#!/bin/sh
# file: /usr/bin/mongrel_start
# author: Tony Perrie

cd /var/www/html/wiki
PWD=/var/www/html/wiki /usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/mongrel_rails start -p 4001 \
-P /var/run/mongrel_instiki.pid -l /var/www/html/wiki/log/mongrel.log \
> /var/www/html/wiki/log/mongrel_stdout.log 2>&1

#!/bin/bash
# instiki        Mongrel startup script for Instiki
# author:        Tony Perrie
#
# chkconfig: - 85 15
# description: This is a startup script for a mongrel process that
#              that is proxied behind an Apache VHost
# processname: mongrel_rails
# pidfile: /var/run/mongrel_instiki.pid

# Source function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

prog="instiki"
instiki=${INSTIKI-/usr/bin/mongrel_start}
pidfile=${PIDFILE-/var/run/mongrel_instiki.pid}
lockfile=${LOCKFILE-/var/lock/subsys/mongrel_instiki}
RETVAL=0
start() {
        action $"Starting $prog: " /bin/true
        $instiki &
        touch /var/www/html/wiki/log/mongrel.log
        RETVAL=$?
        [ $RETVAL = 0 ] && touch ${lockfile}
             return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
  action $"Stopping $prog: " /bin/true
  MONGRELPID=$(ps auxwww | grep mongrel | grep -v grep | awk ' { print $2 }
')
  if [ "$MONGRELPID" != "" ]; then
    kill $MONGRELPID
  fi
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
             start
             ;;
  stop)
             stop
             ;;
  status)
        status "/usr/bin/ruby /usr/bin/mongrel_rails"
             RETVAL=$?
             ;;
  restart)
             stop
             start
             ;;
  *)
             echo $"Usage: $prog {start|stop|restart}"
             exit 1
esac

exit $RETVAL

Tony

From mark.james.lists at gmail.com  Sun May 21 07:13:43 2006
From: mark.james.lists at gmail.com (mark larios)
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 20:13:43 +0900
Subject: [Instiki] InitV Startup Implementation for Instiki on Mongrel
In-Reply-To: 
References: 
Message-ID: 

You should consider submitting this script to TextSnippets
.

On 5/20/06, Joseph Perrie  wrote:
>
> I just wrote this InitV startup script for Instiki running on Mongrels on
> Redhat Enterprise Linux 4.3 (RHEL4U3).
>
> Tony

-- 
mark larios

From msm at uwnet.nl  Sun May 21 12:20:27 2006
From: msm at uwnet.nl (Meindert Meindertsma)
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 18:20:27 +0200
Subject: [Instiki] WEBrick instable at multiple text revisions
In-Reply-To: <20060514010843.h7sg2naxc0wsssc0@webmail.uwnet.nl>
References: <20060513225218.rvws3tfiiosscg8k@webmail.uwnet.nl>
	<7DB24044-E6D7-46B3-9BD0-F3D8586D7803@acm.org>
	<20060514010843.h7sg2naxc0wsssc0@webmail.uwnet.nl>
Message-ID: <20060521182027.u13v4xnp3ok4ssc4@webmail.uwnet.nl>

Something is rotten in the state of my wiki. The Ruby upgrade wasn't  
the panacea after all, although most pages are trouble-free now  
indeed. Some pages however still may go beserk at an unpredictable  
moment: weird error messages at submitting, and the subsequent memory  
leak. A quantum effect? Worn-out bits?

After many experiments with a troublesome page, I'm getting to suspect  
Textile-tables containing WikiWords. When WikiWords (actually their  
square brackets) are removed, or when Textile table-formatting is  
replaced by pure HTML (preserving all WikiWords), there never seems to  
come an end at the error-free updating of that page. Here is the  
problematic one: [myPage]

  table(in).
  |(nn). Volledige naam |(nn). : |(n). Bxxxxxxxxxxxxx Axxxxxxxxx  
(xx-xxxxxxxxxx) |
  |(nn). Klantgroep |(nn). : |(n). *X* |
  |(nn). AS/IS-code |(nn). : |(n). *XX* |
  |(nn). Productie-omgeving |(nn). : |(n). *X* op mainframe XXXX |
  |(nn). Beheercluster |(nn). : |(n). [[Cluster 1]], [[Cluster 2]]  
(Fxxx Xxxxx xx Xxx; Fxxx Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx), [[Cluster 3]], [[Cluster  
6]] |
  |(nn). Applicatiebeheer |(nn). : |(n). [[Meindert Meindertsma]] |
  |(nn). Techniek |(nn). : |(n). [[SAS]], [[JCL]], [[OPC]] |

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps  
over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The  
quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps  
over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps  
over the lazy dog. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The  
quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Iteratie 1: anonimiseren.
Iteratie 2.
Iteratie 3.
Iteratie 4.
Iteratie 5.
Iteratie 6.
Iteratie 7.
Iteratie 8.
Iteratie 9.
Iteratie 10.
Iteratie 11 geeft:
undefined method `to_sym' for nil:NilClass.

[/myPage] Sorry for the Dutch frases, but you get the idea. The first  
iteration consisted of creating a new page, pasting text from another  
page and covering parts of it with x-s and a little story about a  
jumping fox. All next updates I did no more than adding a line  
"Iteratie 2." and so on.

I don't have to present the HTML version, do I? I assure you it looks  
awful, because the whole table must be written on one logical line,  
without any hard returns between or inside the tags (Markdown would do  
a better job here, I presume). O well, there is trick: a linebreak at  
the end of (and within!) each table cell is harmless, but still not  
making a great layout in the edit page. By the way: is it safe to put  
HTML tags into this mail -- what if it's read through a web browser?  
That's why I'm a bit cautious when dealing with HMTL.

Could my assumption that Textile-tables and WikiWords don't go  
together be true? Has anyone similar, supplemental or contrary  
experiences? This could be a reason to switch to Markdown, but I want  
to be sure before taking such a drastic step.

Meindert Meindertsma.

Quoting Meindert Meindertsma :

> John, and others,
>
> After 32 iterations: I give up, this Ruby version is too strong for
> me, how healthy its
> internal state!
>
> The new package also reports "ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]",
> so I have to be
> more precise: "1.8.4-16 preview 3" was behaving badly, the just
> installed "1.8.4-17
> release candidate 2" works fine, until now. A first impression of
> course, but I'm rather
> confident at this moment.
>
> Thanks,
> Meindert Meindertsma.
>
> Quoting John Whitley :
>
>> msm at uwnet.nl wrote:
>>> Instiki takes frequent revisions of the same page by the same author
>>> within a short time as multiple iterations of the same version, not as
>>> separate versions. Nice feature. But after a few iterations, my
>>> Instiki can't handle it anymore, and I'm getting error messages like
>>> "private method `split' called for 113435111:Fixnum", "private method
>>> `gsub!' called for 101855024:Fixnum", or "undefined method `+' for
>>> nil:NilClass", after submitting the updated text.
>>
>> Ah, *that* I've seen before: it was due to a hand-built Ruby on Mac
>> OS X with incorrect threading compile options.  This caused Ruby's
>> internal state to get completely screwed up for some (but not all)
>> applications.  A correctly built Ruby interpreter resolved those
>> nnnn:Fixmnum problems and related bizarre issues entirely.
>>
>> If you're using a pure-Windows (i.e. not Cygwin) Ruby, you might want
>> to check out the RubyInstaller (http://rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org/
>> wiki/wiki.pl) page for a one-click Ruby installer package for
>> Windows.  See if the most recent package (1.8.4-17 release candidate
>> 2, built on May 3, 2006) works any better for you.
>>
>>> I'm using Instiki 0.11.0 and Ruby 1.8.4 [2005-12-24] on Windows 2000
>>> or XP.
>>
>>
>> -- John
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Instiki-users mailing list
>> Instiki-users at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instiki-users
>>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Instiki-users mailing list
> Instiki-users at rubyforge.org
> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/instiki-users
>

From MLucas at mvrpc.org  Mon May 22 16:03:28 2006
From: MLucas at mvrpc.org (Lucas, Mike)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:03:28 -0400
Subject: [Instiki] is there a config to enable file uploads?
Message-ID: 

I am setting up several wikis to try to help collect some HOWTO info for
our staff, and love the simplicity and speed of Instiki, it is a great
product, my first foray into playing with a RoR app.

However, no matter how I try to search and read the documentation on
file uploads in Instiki, I can't get this feature working.

I set the file limit in the Web Settings to 1 GB to test without
limitations.

I followed the small example on FileUploads page on instiki.org by
placing the location of the file I want uploaded in brackets.

I have Instiki running on a local webserver, proxied to the outside
world via Apache. I've tried to point the upload files link to a file
straight off my local machine to see if it uploads to the web server but
that doesn't work. Does Instiki have a file upload module somewhere, do
i have to give permissions to the /files dir? (I am running Apache
webserver on a Windows Server box, with Ruby 1.84 installed).

I even ftp'd a file to the /files subdir and still can't get a clean
link. When I ftp the file directly, then add [[filename.pdf:file]] the
result is a highlighted link for a page that doesn't exist, but if I
click the question mark to create it, then the PDF in the /files dir
opens. Have I missed some config setting somewhere. I know instiki.org
has the FileUpload page on the TODO list, but I'm getting frustrated not
being able to sort it out on my own. Everything else with this
application is so simple and straightforward, I'm sure I'm staring at
the solution but just haven't grokked. it.

Thanks,
-Mike
Michael Lucas
Web Manager
MVRPC

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From hoyhoy at gmail.com  Wed May 24 11:43:28 2006
From: hoyhoy at gmail.com (Tony Perrie)
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 10:43:28 -0500
Subject: [Instiki] Authentication between Instiki and Mailman
Message-ID: 

This was taken from a string of emails I sent to the rails mailing
list.  I was attempting to enable a single sign on between Instiki
(running on Mongrel) and Mailman running from Apache. Esentially, we
needed to authenticate against the cookie written by Ruby.  It turns
out that you can write a cookie for the entire TLD of *.example.com
from Instiki (Rails).  So, I changed the cookie writing code in the
wiki_controller to the following.

# app/controllers/wiki_controller.rb
cookies['ldap_username_2006'] = {:value =>emailaddress,
                      :expires =>30.days.from_now,
                      :domain => '.example.com'
                      }
cookies['session_id'] = {:value =>session.session_id,
                        :expires =>30.days.from_now,
                        :domain => '.example.com'
                       }

This had the effect of allowing the cookie to be read by all
subdomains which is completely fine.  The next step was to make Apache
recognize the
cookie which was a bit harder than I thought.  I amended the
/etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.example.com.conf config file with the
following mod_rewrite rules.

# /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.example.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*ldap_username_2006=.*$
RewriteRule .*$
http://instiki.example.com/wiki/auth?mailman_from=http://mailman.example.com%{REQUEST_URI}

So, there was a little bit of more hacking in the "auth" view to force
a redirect back to mailman if that's where the request originated.
This
required that the auth view needed to handle the "mailman_from"
request variable being sent by the rewrite rule.

# app/views/wiki/auth.rhtml
<%= form_tag(:controller => 'wiki' , :action => 'ldap_authenticate',
:redirect_mailman=>@params['mailman_from']) %>

Finally, ldap_authenticate has to redirect back to mailman if the
request was initiated there, and the cookie did not exist.  The entire
URL is preserved.  So, if you came in from a particular list request,
you are redirected back to that particular list.

# app/controllers/wiki_controller.rb
#
if @params['redirect_mailman'].nil?
 redirect_home
else
 redirect_to @params['redirect_mailman'].to_s
end

Clearly, this method of checking the ldap_username_2006 is a bare
minimum of security.  If a user could guess that cookie name, and
write it, then they could get access.  The right way would be to check
the session_id against the database, but it didn't seem like
RewriteCond could do such a thing.  I actually have another check in
my RewriteCond (not listed in this email) to insure the value of the
cookie complies with the regex.  Even so, I'd be fairly wary of
implementing this outside of our Intranet.

The other option I considered is forking mailman to check the
session_id from the instiki database.  This is probably a slightly
more sane, however this would require us to merge future mailman
patches manually.

If anyone has any thoughts on how to check a session_id against a
database with mod_rewrite (or any other Apache module), let me know.

Regards,

Tony
http://involution.com

From kemp at extelligence.net  Thu May 25 10:00:26 2006
From: kemp at extelligence.net (Kemp Watson)
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:00:26 -0400
Subject: [Instiki] Install Instiki on Solaris 10
Message-ID: 

Hi all:

It's turning out for me that "there is no step 3" is really not quite
right...

I've got Ruby installed and working, and Sqlite, both standard installs into
/usr/local, but I can't seem to get the sqlite3-ruby connector installed.

Running "ruby setup.rb config" as indicated gives a "Could not create
Makefile" error, "probably lack of necessary libraries and or headers". But
the instructions just said to run that script. Any suggestions?

(this is Solaris 10 on a T2000, SPARC T1 processor, GCC 3.4.3)

Help much appreciated,
Kemp Watson
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From francisco at nortenet.pt  Fri May 26 15:04:07 2006
From: francisco at nortenet.pt (Francisco Alves Cabrita)
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 20:04:07 +0100
Subject: [Instiki] Instiki + lighttpd + auth edit
Message-ID: <200605262004.10227.francisco@nortenet.pt>

Hello All

First Thanks for this Fantastic Simple and functional WIKI RoR based :)

I have installed Instiki and it's running via Lighttpd / FastCGI, and It's up 
and running without any problem :)

Now I need help implementing the autentication mechanism for editing pages.

I have read this: http://instiki.org/show/HtaccessAuthorization , but that's 
for Apache, and lighttpd is very diferent :S.

I already have this under lighttpd.conf
---

auth.backend               = "htpasswd"
auth.backend.htpasswd.userfile = "/usr/home/include/htpasswd"

auth.require = ( "/priv" =>
( "method"  => "digest",
  "realm"   => "download archiv",
  "require" => "valid-user" )
)

url.rewrite = ( 
  "^/$" => "index.html",
  "^([^.]+)$" => "$1.html",
  ".*/edit/.*" => "/usr/local/instiki/public/priv/edit.fcgi"
)

The problem is, I can't get that fancy box asking for Auth :D and 
AnomynousCoward can edit :)

Thanks in Advance
Cheers
Francisco
-- 
A princess should not be afraid -- not with a brave knight to protect
her.
		-- McCoy, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.3
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From csimonut at gmail.com  Sat May 27 18:19:04 2006
From: csimonut at gmail.com (Christian Simonutti)
Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 00:19:04 +0200
Subject: [Instiki] published version
Message-ID: <20060527221903.GC27978@hias.happyhacking.at>

Hi,

I'm using instiki for my personal website. Therefor I use the publish feature.
Unfortunately the published mode has a lot of bugs and produces some nasty
errors when used behind apache.

Instiki is really nice - if not used in published mode. No rss, no access to
public/images, wrong includes, ...

Is anybody using a published version in real life? I'm really tired of hunting
bugs ;o(

Simon