Installation and Setup

Adding new users

AtomicWiki is based on eXist's Atom implementation and thus relies on its user management and access control. However, the wiki itself does currently not offer any user management tools. This will change in future versions.

For now, you have to use the Java client which comes with eXist to edit user accounts and permissions. In the default setup, all wiki users should be members of the group "bloggers".

Using the eXist client

You can access AtomicWiki like any other eXist database using the Java client that ships with eXist. Go into the eXist installation you used for building AtomicWiki and launch bin/client.sh or binlient.bat. In the login dialog, change the URL to

xmldb:exist://localhost:8000/xmlrpc

and enter your database admin password in the Password field (default: "atom").

Admin User

AtomicWiki sometimes requires blogadmin user rights for certain administrative tasks. It is impossible to reconstruct the clear text password from the database, so AtomicWiki needs to find it elsewhere.

The blogadmin user and password are written into /db/atom/configuration.xml. If you change the blogadmin user's password, you should also update configuration.xml accordingly.