Instiki 0.16.6 Installation on Hostmonster with fastcgi

To install Instiki on Hostmonster is quite simple:

• Create a new fully hosted domain on cPanel at Hostmonster. Something like wiki.domain.com.
• Upload Instiki into the wiki.domain.com folder.
• Don’t forget to adjust database.yml for your database setings.
• Include ENV[‘RAILS_ENV’] ||= ‘production’ at environment.rb
• In the file .htaccess, make sure follow lines in the start of the file:
  

  
  # General Apache options
  AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi
  #AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
  #AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
  Options +FollowSymLinks +ExecCGI
  

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.cgi [QSA,L] 

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]

• Login to your shell account and do the following:

rm -r wiki
ln -s /home/YOUR_USERNAME/public_html/wiki/public wiki
cd wiki (.yourdomain.com)
chmod -R 755 public
chmod 755 public/dispatch.*
chmod -R 755 tmp
chmod -R 755 log
rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production

Open wiki. yourdomain.com in your browser and set up the wiki.

That’s it!.