Deployment

With Deployment is meant the installation by someone or a group of people of kiwix on many computers. This can be kiwix or kiwix-serve, computers may have the same or different operatings systems ; hardware can also be non-homogenous. But within a deployment the content deployed is the same, this is more or less one version of Kiwix with the same pre-defined content.

Introduction

Currently, a lot of things are already possible and that is why we have already successful deployments. The problem is that:

1. Not trivial to do
2. Not everything is possible

If you want to deploy Kiwix, you need to prepare a "package with" :

• Kiwix the software (for one or many HW & OSes)
• Content, so the ZIM files
• The full text search index
• The library which links kiwix, content and index together.
• Optionally a solution to install that (Windows installer, scripts, ...)

Please read following pages to be familiar with the solution we already have to prepare such things:

• Directory structure for portable version of Kiwix (Windows)
• The command line tool to build libraries
• The XML library file format
• Old script used to build portable version of Kiwix (ZIP file) with content like available at http://download.kiwix.org/portable/