Peer Installation

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Pre Notes

The system requires the libraries and components in the Debian Post Install to be present
~~Your wikidb must be called "wiki" for backup to work currently~~
The wiki must be available on http://localhost/wiki/index.php
The wiki should be an XmlWiki, see XmlWiki Installation

Post Wiki Install

Create a linux user/identity for your peer
Create a MySQL user with your peer's login/passwd and give it SELECT and LOCK TABLES privileges for the wiki database:

GRANT SELECT,LOCK TABLES ON your-wiki-db.* TO yourPeer@localhost

# CHECKING PRIVILEGES

SELECT Host,User,Db,Grant_priv,Lock_tables_priv FROM db WHERE User='yourPeer';

(I usually just make the db-user to the peers login/passwd during MediaWiki setup)

Create a user in your local wiki for your peer as well
Create a file called pwd1 in your peer's home directory which is only readable by root (600) and contains your peers password
Create pwd2 the same way which contains your local router's admin password (pwd2 and pwd3 are only used with dynamic DNS)
Create pwd3 - this is the namecheap peerix dynamicDNS account password, copy or scp from another peer in the peerix domain
Create pwd4 if you want your peer to check a POP box
Create pwd5 [USAGE?]

All passwords need to be created

Download the current peer directory content from http://www.organicdesign.co.nz/wiki/peer.tgz
Unpack it into a directory called peer in your peers home directory (the home dir itself is used for pwds, logs and db backups)
Install and start your peer into init.d with;

/home/yourPeer/peer/wikid yourPeer --install --start --dir=peer-cache-directory

If your peer is running correctly, it will have logged its startup in the recent-changes of its local wiki.
If it has not started, check the log in /home/peer-name/peer-name.log

Post peer install

set up your Peer Article Structure

Notes

The current version of the peer is WikiD and is functioning but not for public use. peerd will be the first publically released peer.
Using the Win32::Daemon module from www.roth.net, peers can run as a proper service on Win32 platforms.
Using the PERL2EXE utility we can now package the peer into a small executable (about 1MB) for Windows users which requires no prior install of PERL or any of its modules.
We will also use PERL2EXE for making peer-binaries for cut-down Linux environments like Peerix which are missing some of the peer-dependencies.

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