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Installation instructions: WIRIS plugin for Xinha

 

 

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1 Requirements

  • Xinha 0.95 or higher installed.
  • A valid license to install the plugin in a production environment; otherwise, you can use the downloaded file just for demo purposes.

2 Copy files

Unzip the Xinha WIRIS Plugin and copy the xinha_wiris directory into your Xinha plugins directory. For example, you will have xinha/plugins/xinha_wiris . The name of the WIRIS plugin directory must be xinha_wiris .

2.1 For PHP servers

  1. Give execution rights to the web server user on the PHP files contained at xinha/plugins/xinha_wiris/integration.
  2. Give write permissions to xinha/plugins/xinha_wiris/cache and xinha/plugins/xinha_wiris/formulas directories to the web server user. Those folders will be used to store formula MathML codes and temporal images.

2.2 For ASP.NET server

  1. Create an application through your IIS control panel with root directory at xinha/plugins/xinha_wiris/integration.
  2. Give write permissions to xinha/plugins/xinha_wiris/cache and xinha/plugins/xinha_wiris/formulas directories to the web server user. Those folders will be used to store formula MathML codes and temporal images.

2.3 For ASP servers

  1. Give write permissions to xinha/plugins/xinha_wiris/cache and to xinha/plugins/ckeditor_wiris/formulas directories to the web server user. Those folders will be used to store formula MathML codes and temporal images.

2.4 As Java servlet

  1. Install the pluginwiris_engine.war in your Java web applications server. For example, tomcat.
  2. By default, the javascript code loads the pluginwiris_engine from the root of web application server (/pluginwiris_engine/app). However, if you want to store the pluginwiris_engine in another path, you should edit these javascript codes.
    1. Open xinha/plugins/xinha_wiris/xinha_wiris.js.
    2. Change the variables _wrs_conf_editorPath, _wrs_conf_CASPath, _wrs_conf_createimagePath and _wrs_conf_createcasimagePath with your preferred values.
    3. Save changes.

3 Configure

3.1 On PHP, ASP.NET and ASP integrations

Edit xinha/plugins/xinha_wiris/configuration.ini to set your own values. This table specifies all possible parameters.

3.2 On Java integration

Edit WEB-INF/pluginwiris/configuration.ini to set your own values. This table specifies all possible parameters.

It is essential to establish the value of the parameters wiriscachedirectory and wirisformuladirectory.

4 Include WIRIS plugin for Xinha on your own platform

You must include xinha_wiris on your Xinha plugin list. This list is specified at xinha/XinhaConfig.js (see Xinha documentation).

5 Check that the plugin works correctly

In order to check if the plugin is installed correctly, there is a page that makes some tests on your server. Open this link to see where is your test page.

6 Clean and backup your WIRIS plugin for Xinha

Check this page.