Haxe Wiki CMS

The Haxe Wiki CMS is used by haxe.org and provides the following features :

• a wiki system with a clean extendable markup syntax

  • realtime javascript-based preview

• each page can be translated while keeping the same navigation

  • (fallback on default english language when user-language specific version is not found)

• user groups and rights management

  • (control who can create/edit/modify/etc. all or specific pages/paths of the wiki)

• versioning of all pages changes

• some parts of the wiki can be turned into a blog-style view

• allow comments on pages/blogs - if activated

• an embededded forum system

• image and files uploads

• customizable themes with css

• a remoting api to perform automatic tasks

  • (such as synchronizing the API documentation)

• entirely written in Haxe !

SETUP

In order to setup the wiki :

1. download or clone the source code

2. install Haxe + Neko

   • requires Haxe 2.09+

3. install MySQL database server

   • create a database called hxwiki

4. configure website

   • copy config.tpl.xml as config.xml and set the db field with your local mysql database server db="mysql://root:@localhost:3306/hxwiki"
   • set the admin password ! (will be used to create the admin user, can be removed later)

5. install a few haxelib libraries

   • haxelib install mtwin
   • haxelib install templo
   • haxelib install spodadmin

6. compile by running haxe project.hxml

7. create temploc executable

   • cd www
   • haxelib run templo

8. either configure mod_neko for Apache or run the local neko server

   • nekotools server -rewrite

9. visit http://localhost:2000/

   • it should create the database, refresh to start using !

CONFIG OPTIONS

• change website design

  • set style="haxe" for old design
  • set style="haxe2" for new design

• use google search

  • set gsearch gsearch="1"

• to setup a part of the website as a blog :

  • login as admin
  • insert an EntryConfig definition with the path of your blog my/blog for instance
  • don't forget to check isBlog

• to setup a part of the website as a forum :

  • same as the blog before
  • check isForum instead of isBlog
  • insert also the corresponding ForumTheme