Installation Guide

Installation Guide

Database Installation

Use MySQL Admin or the command line to import the MySQL Admin Backup script to your desired database. Please remember that the scripts where made using a schema of codex. If you want another schema, then please edit the script file to reflect these changes.

Restoring using MySQL Browser will not work. Please use MySQL Admin or the command line.

Database Migration

If you had a previous installation of Codex, you can easily upgrade by running our migration script. You can find it under:

/codex/install/migration/0.5/migration.cfm

Just make sure you alter your datasource in the Application.cfm file in that folder. This script will update your current wiki installation to the latest release. And yes, it will be included in every version of Codex for upgrading ease of use.

Source Code Installation

In order to install CodexWiki you must first read our requirements guide.

1. Place the codex installation anywhere in your webserver. Thanks to ColdFusion 8, CodexWiki uses per-application mappings to where it is placed in the webserver.

2. If you place codex in another location that is not the webroot then you will have to modify the following setting in the Coldbox configuration file.

Open the file config/coldbox.xml.cfm and update the AppMapping setting to match your location.

<-- <I have installed codex under a directory called codexwiki -->
<Setting name="AppMapping" value="/codexwiki" />

3. By default, CodexWiki uses the datasource called codex, which is declared in the transfer datasource.xml file. If you would like to change it, then open the file and change the name of the datasource.

4. Make sure that you have Transfer 1.0, ColdBox 2.6.2 and ColdSpring 1.2 installed.

5. Fire up your browser and hit Codex.

6. The default login/password for the administrator is the following:

username	password
admin	codex

7. (Optional) We have a very simple script to install the verity collection and scheduler. You will find this in install/install.cfm. This will only work on Windows/Linux machines as Verity has not been ported to Mac OS X.

By Default the search engine used is the database search engine. You can switch easily via the Codex System Console