How to install Tiki Wiki CMS in XAMPP Windows 11

Tiki or Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware (also TikiWiki) is another free content management system. It is currently being developed by Tiki Software Community Association and community volunteers. Its initial released was wayback year 2002, on October 7th. And for this post, we are going to create a website out of it. Although installing one is a little bit tricky, you do not have to go through one because I already prepared a complete tutorial that will prevent you from getting errors while installing. But first, you need to download the needed files to start the Tiki installation.

Requirements:

• xampp-windows-x64-7.4.33-0-VC15-installer [download here]
• tiki-24.2 [download here]

Assuming that you downloaded the files above, continue to the tutorials below.

Table of Contents

• XAMPP Installation
• Opening XAMPP and running Apache and MySQL
• Copying and pasting Tiki Wiki folder inside htdocs
• Creating needed database for Tiki Wiki installation via phpmyAdmin
• Installing Tiki Wiki website using localhost via web browser
• Opening Tiki Wiki website homepage
• Accessing Tiki Wiki website admin page

Here are the steps on how to install Tiki Wiki website using XAMPP in Windows pc

XAMPP Installation

1. Open the XAMPP file that you downloaded. If a question about antivirus running appears, just press Yes to proceed.

2. If a warning also appears about User Account Control, just press OK to proceed.

3. Now, in the Setup - XAMPP, just press NEXT to proceed.

4. In the Select Components, just leave it and press NEXT to proceed.

5. In the Installation folder, do not change it also, just leave it and press NEXT to proceed.

6. In the Language for XAMPP, select English and press NEXT to continue.

7. We are now ready to install XAMPP, press NEXT to start.

8. Wait for the installation to finish.

9. When done, press Finish to exit the installer.

Opening XAMPP and running Apache and MySQL

1. To run XAMPP, go to This PC > C drive > xampp > and press the xampp-control.exe file.

2. Inside XAMPP Control Panel, click the Start buttons for both Apache and MySQL.

3. If Apache and MySQL both have green background now, then, they are running.

4. If a Windows Security Alert appears, press Allow access to proceed.

Copying and pasting Tiki Wiki folder inside htdocs

1. Extract the Tiki zip file that you download and rename the folder to "tiki". Copy your tiki folder and go to This PC.

2. Inside This PC, open your C driver.

3. Inside C, open xampp folder.

4. Inside xampp, open htdocs folder.

5. And inside htdocs, paste here your tiki folder.

Creating needed database for Tiki Wiki installation via phpmyAdmin

1. We are now going to create the database needed for our Tiki installation. Open your web browser and go to 127.0.0.1 and press ENTER.

2. Inside, find and click phpMyAdmin.

3. Inside phpMyAdmin, click Databases.

4. Inside Databases, in the Create database, name it as "tiki_db" and next to it, set charset to utf8mb4_unicode_ci and press Create.

5. In the Create new table, name it as tiki_table and set columns to 4. Press Create to proceed.

6. In Structure, name it as tiki and set INT as the Type.

7. And for Collation, set it to utf8_unicode_ci. Leave all the other fields as blank.

8. Save your work.

Installing Tiki Wiki website using localhost via web browser

1. We are now ready to install our Tiki website. But first, we need to enable a php extension because our installation will just go to waste if we do not enable it first. As you can see on the image below, I got that error after going through all the process of installing Tiki Wiki before. The error is Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'Locale' not found and so on. This error will not appear in the beginning, but in the end. Tiki will notify you that it was successfully installed, but you won't be able to open your website because this error (below) will be the one that you are going to see, which is definitely frustrating. To be able to have a smooth installation, as I have mentioned already, we need to enable an extension inside our php.ini file located in This PC > C drive > xampp > php folder. Now, do the tutorial below. Note: If there is a gd or gd2 error, then, they are also located inside php.ini. Just remove the semicolon on both extensions to enable them. Do not forget to restart XAMPP.

How to enable PHP Extension=INT to fix Tiki Wiki error installation "Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'Locale' not found"

• Go to c:\xampp\php and find php.ini
• Right-click open with Notepad
• Find ";extension=intl"
• From ;extension=intl change it to extension=intl
• Save Notepad
• Restart XAMPP (Stop Apache and MySQL, then restart both)

2. Assuming that you are done with STEP 1. We are now ready to install our Tiki Wiki website. Open your web browser and go to 127.0.0.1/tiki and press ENTER.

3. In the Welcome page, under Select your language, select English and press Continue to proceed.

4. In License page, just press Continue to proceed.

5. Same goes for "Review the System Requirements" just press Continue to proceed.

6. In the Set the Database Connection, do the following: DBMS Driver - MySQL Improved (mysqli). Host name - localhost. Database name - tiki_db. User name - root. Password - blank or none. Check the Always force connection to use UTF-8. When done, press Continue to proceed.

7. In the Select database engine select InnoDB and press Install to start installation.

8. Wait for the installation to finish.

9. In the Review the Installation - Installation complete, just press Continue to proceed.

10. In the Configure General Settings, do the following: Browser title - your site title. Sender email - type a valid email address. HTTPS login - Disabled. Logging and Reporting - No error reporting. Uncheck "Visible to admin only". Admin email - input a valid email address. Method - Automatic. When done, press Continue to proceed.

11. Under Last Notes, just press Continue again.

12. We are now ready to run our installed Tiki website. If you did not perform STEP 1, which is about enabling the extension=intl inside your php.ini file, after clicking the "Enter Tiki and Lock Installer (Recommended)" you will encounter the FATAL ERROR that I posted above. But if you did enabled first the extension, then after clicking the Enter Tiki, you will be able to proceed to STEP 13 below.

13. Under Your account has been validated, you just need to set your admin account password. By default, admin is your username. When done, click Apply to proceed.

14. Congratulations! You now have a working instance of Tiki 24.2, meaning, your Tiki website was successfully installed and fully functional.

Opening Tiki Wiki website homepage

1. To open your Tiki Wiki website homepage, you can either go to 127.0.0.1/tiki or 127.0.0.1/tiki/tiki-index.php. You can also try accessing it using localhost by going to localhost/tiki. The sample image below is the homepage of your site which is not yet edited.

2. The homepage below of my Tiki Wiki website, is already edited by me.

Accessing Tiki Wiki website admin page

1. To access your Tiki Wiki website admin account, just click the Login link located at the upper-right corner of your site. Enter your username and password and press Log in to proceed.

2. Here is the sample Get Started page inside your administration account of your Tiki Wiki website. You have there the options to "Start Configuration Profile Wizard (Macros)", or just the Start Configuration Wizard, as well as the Changes Wizard, Control Panel and Server Fitness.

3. Here is the Main admin page that you can access by going to 127.0.0.1/tiki/tiki-admin.php. You have there the System Menu that includes, options and settings for Homepage, Search, Wiki, File Galleries, Main Settings, and lots of more links that is only available to you as admin and owner of your Tiki Wiki website.

Thank you for reading this tutorial guys. If you have a question, do not hesitate to leave a comment below. Cheers!