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omCollab is a composite product that brings together capabilites from multiple products such as mediawiki and wordpress.

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Installing from the omCollab Package

Here is the approach to very quickly install omCollab. This installation process allows you to get a local or development environment up and ready to go in a matter of minutes.

  • Download xampp: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html. xampp will give you an installation of apache (web server), php (server-side scripting language for running web pages) mySQL (database) and PHPMyAdmin (web-based database administration)
  • Install xampp, following the instructions on the site. The easiest way to install xampp is through the installer.
  • Download omCollab: current version. This will give you a collaborative environment that includes wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, social networking, etc. All in a single install.
  • Unzip omCollab
  • Go to the root directory where you installed xampp and copy the entire contents in the xampp/htdocs/ directory
  • Follow the instructions in the Readme file, which is in the omCollab root directory. The main steps include:

Example URLs assume you unzipped omCollab in to xampp/htdocs/omCollab and you are not using virtual hosts

    • Creating a database user and 3 databases within phpmyadmin (installed via xampp).

Example to go to phpmyadmin: http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

    • Launching a web browser to the omCollab directory and populating the configuration for omCollab.

Example to go to phpmyadmin: http://localhost/omCollab/

    • Delete config files produced as per instructions

That’s it. You’re ready to go – with an out of the box solution for advanced collaboration!

There are a few minor issues with the current install, but you will be able to get everything running. We will release a patched version in the next day or 2.

Downloads

Current Version

Legacy Versions

Note a minor change has been applied to the naming convention for releases for the first 2 legacy versions - only the file name has changed.

Installing from svn

You can access the latest code for omCollab by browsing to http://waterloo.openmethodology.org/trac/omcollab/. This will take you to the trac interface which we use for software release management. If you do not you have a subversion client or want more than the code itself, use this link.

The url to directly connect via a subversion client is http://waterloo.openmethodology.org/svn/omcollab. Our development team is using eclipse. Installation and user guides on eclipse can be found on the eclipse site; we've also posted a brief set of instructions on how to install the software.

We'll soon be posting more detailed instructions around how this works, our development model and recommeded methods for intergration.

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