This page and Install by FTP should merge with Installation. Installing via FTP or otherwise is not significantly different. And installing by FTP should be the default case. If we make a special installation page (which we shouldn't), it should be "Install by SSH"

Note: most ISP's install PHP with memory_limit = 8m. While TikiWiki may install, and initially appear to work fine, when faced with even a slight load, this limit will be easily passed and the system will constantly fail. Furthermore, this limit is not generally user accessible so you must rely on the kindness of your ISP to grant you more resources. On a busy shared server that will also mean that all other PHP users on that shared server will also be granted those resources.

Take a look at PHP memory_limit req, a page that has been hit over 17 thousand times! TikiWiki wants 32megs as the memory_limit. Anything less is asking for trouble.

After you install you can learn all about these limits by running the program PHP Info, which is the bottom most menu item after logging in as Admin. (http://www.YourSite.com/tiki/tiki-phpinfo.php). Run that and search for three values on your ISPâ€™s server:
max_execution_time = 300 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds
max_input_time = 60 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data
memory_limit = 32M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume

From my personal experience an 8M memory limit can bomb sending out just 50 newsletters. I'm told the upper bound for this would be around 4000 on a very well kept server with the full 32M memory_limit.

Do not assume because your ISP has Fantastico or some other install script or advertises TikiWiki as supported that they have any experience whatsoever in this. Few offer more than the 8MB install default of PHP so be advised. The problem doesnâ€™t surface till the loading starts. --RickL

TikiWiki 1.9.5 FTP installation guide

Installing Tiki 1.9.5 to a Remotely Hosted Website

Pardon my newb-ness. First time wiki'ing.

I tried following the 1.9.2 instructions and got most of the way. Turned out some new dirs showed up I think. Here is the list of dirs from the shell file included with 1.9.5:

backups
db
dump
files
img/wiki
img/wiki_up
img/trackers
modules/cache
temp
temp/cache
templates_c
templates
styles
maps
whelp
mods

You need to go to each of these dirs and do two things:

1) Make sure it exists. Create it if it doesnt.
2) Chmod it 777

If your on a remote host like I am you should have a util to do this. I use webmasters.com and they have a file management tool that lets you set permissions and create directories.

Some sites may also let you create the directories through ftp and if your lucky even do the chmods but I havn't tried that with webmasters, just know its possible through ftp.

Btw, I had to remove the description of this page because the preview/save functions were giving an error saying "descript = ..." was a bad variable. I am assuming the description is in an old version and someone who knows what they are doing can put it back. ðŸ˜€