Where to change which X server Ubuntu 7.10 uses

If you have multiple X servers installed like me, you might need to change between them. The configuration file is stored at /etc/X11/xorg.conf. The X server is located in section "Device" at line Driver:


Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "vesa"
# Driver "fglrx"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection


HawkWikiEx Open Source Wiki Engine in C# - 0.6.0 released

You can download the 0.6.0 version from CodePlex. It adds diff file generation and very simple authentication with commercial barcode generator.

The upcoming release will be 0.7.0. It will add really modular architecture and the email authentication provider. It will be released when the code cleanup is completed and when my wiki will be able to run on this version.

How to deploy HawkWikiEx on Linux (Ubuntu 7.10)

1. Create a directory let's say /var/www/wiki.sample.com
2. Depending on your Apache2 configuration, create or open your site file e.g. /etc/apache2/sites-available/default on Ubuntu 7.10 and add a new virtual host:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName wiki.sample.com
ServerAdmin your@yourmail.net

DocumentRoot /var/www/wiki.sample.com

<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/wiki.sample.com>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
SetHandler mono
DirectoryIndex Default.aspx
AddType application/x-asp-net .wiki
AddType application/x-asp-net .showcode
</Directory>

ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access_wiki.log combined
ServerSignature On

<Location /mono>
SetHandler mono-ctrl
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
</Location>

</VirtualHost>


3. Depending on your Mono-server configuration create a new WebApp file let's say /etc/mono-server/wiki.sample.com.webapp and add:

<apps>
<web-application>
<name>HawWikiEx on my domain</name>
<vpath>/</vpath>
<path>/var/www/wiki.sample.com</path>
<vhost>wiki.sample.com</vhost>
</web-application>
</apps>

4. Download a binary release of HawkWikiEx from Releases and put it in /var/www/wiki.sample.com
5. Restart Apache2 and Mono-server with (on Ubuntu 7.10)

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload

6. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://wiki.sample.com. HawkWikiEx StartPage should appear.

Introducing HawkWikiEx

As I have written before, I have been modifying HawkWiki to work under Ubuntu 7.10 with Apache2 and mod_mono.

Now welcome to HawkWikiEx! It adds new features like

• Rendering done by NVelocity. It allows really easily to change the layout etc.


• Standard ASP.NET authentication with built-in very simple authentication mechanism based on email authentication


• change management and diff document generation between changes with Diff


• simple built-in search based on NLucene

It already powers http://wiki.podhola.net.