Install the wiki UI
At this point your wiki is empty, i.e it doesn't contain any wiki page. Since applications in XWiki are done in wiki pages you also don't any application available (e.g. Blog, User Directory, User Profiles, etc). In addition, you wiki doesn't contain any user.
Thus the final step is to fill your Wiki with some initial content (i.e. wiki pages).
This is the job of the Distribution Wizard which automatically starts when you are browsing your new XWiki instance for the first time.
The default distribution is a fully configured wiki that you can use as a starting point for creating your own wiki content. It provides the following:
- A Dashboard
- A Panels Application
- Search
- Administration features (Access rights, Group and users management, etc)
- ... and much more
Installing without internet connection
XIP Package
A XIP package is offered containing an offline extension repository with all the extensions making the Standard Flavor.
This is actually a zip file containing the required XWiki extensions for both the main wiki and subwikis, in the same format as the one of the local extensions repository. It allows the Distribution Wizard to find the extensions locally instead of getting them online and is thus suited for offline installations of XWiki.
- download it (use the exact same version of the XIP package as the version of XWiki you have)
- Unzip it (rename it to .zip if your zip tool does not recognize it) in the folder <permanentdirectory>/extension/repository (if you get complains about already existing files don't overwrite them)
- Restart XWiki if it was running
- Resume standard installation, this time it will find the flavor locally
Other methods
Several options:
- Set up a local Extension Repository, either as a Maven Repository or using the Extension Repository Application. Of course you'll need to prefill it with all the extensions you'll wish to install when offline, which isn't something easy to do.
- Install the Standalone Distribution which contains a default set of wiki pages.
- Use the Offline Packager Maven plugin.
Extension Repositories
XWiki performs some checks at startup and even at runtime and tries to connects to remote Extension repositories. This will not cause any problem if you're offline but you'll get some error logs. You may want to disable Extension repositories by editing your xwiki.properties config file and adding the following empty property (make sure that this is the only property defined with the name):
Deprecated methods
Manually Import Wiki Pages
You can also skip the Distribution Wizard import the default Wiki that we are providing as a XAR file by using the Import feature. Since there's no Admin user created at this point, you'll need to log in as superadmin to be able to perform this import.
