Mapping Hacks

Set Up an OpenGuide for Your Hometown #97

Chapter 9, Mapping with Other People

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backend database to use to store the pages; there is support for MySQL,

PostgreSQL, and SQLite:

What type of database do you want the site to run on? SQLite

For this database, we’re going to use SQLite, a tiny SQL store that uses a single

binary file for the backend and doesn’t require a database username and pass-

word. You need to make sure that the web server has permissions to write to

the SQLite database and has write permissions on the directory that contains it.

Once you’ve set up the database, the configurer will ask you a range of ques-

tions about where you want the OpenGuides scripts to be installed, what

address they map to on the Web, and various meta-information about your

new wiki—its name, city, country, and language. You can change these

options afterward by editing the file wiki.conf, which installs into the same

directory as the CGI scripts.

You need to make sure that the user or group your web server runs as has

permission to write to files in the directory where you store the indexes. If

you’re running the Apache HTTP server, this is likely to be apache, httpd,

www-data; check your process table by looking for the

httpd process:

$ ps -ef | grep apache

apache 5031 5019 0 19:42 pts/4 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/apache-perl

$ groups apache

apache : apache

Then set the permissions so that the web server can ...