Hosted Swiki
Edward P Luwish
eluwish at uswest.com
Tue Jun 8 17:40:48 UTC 1999
I'm not sure even what to call this thing.
I would like to have my own Swiki, but my network (and all potential
candidates for a server) only has dialup access to the internet.
I do have a hosted web account on my ISP's unix system, I have shell
access to the system, but not as root, and can run cgi scripts from my
web pages. I do not know whether I can open a socket from a cgi script,
which I would want to do to run a non-privileged web server from my
account.
The questions are:
Can I run some kind of a script that would start up a headless Squeak as
a Swiki server on my ISP's unix system?
Is there a way I can store just the page content on my site, relying on
a browser plug-in to download it and upload changes?
Can I store the page content on my site and link it to an existing Swiki
on another host?
The Swiki is such a compelling communications medium that everyone
should be able to have one.
Most people do not have full control over a host with 24-hour
connectivity to the internet.
Most web sites are hosted by a service provider that uses a single
high-capacity server which is not a Squeak PWS. Some of these sites
have sufficient storage and execution privileges to run just about
anything from a cgi script. I know that the original WikiWiki was
developed in Perl and can be used in the way I require. Still, as a new
member of this community, I would like to do it in Squeak and thus
benefit from ongoing improvements, a consistent look and feel, and,
well, just to do it, I guess.
If this has not yet been done, could someone give me some suggestions so
I can muddle through this myself? Or alternatively give me reasons why
it cannot be done?
Ed
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