Wikis

Information on different wiki systems installation

1. DocuWiki

https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki

In linux, download dokuwiki and extract into a folder (eg: Documents)

except php which is by default installed in linux, you need to install this:

sudo apt install xml-php

To run with the simple php server:

php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 -t ~/Documents/dokuwiki/

2. The federated wiki

https://fed.wiki.org

Really interesting simple engine. If setup on-line it can be networked with others.

   - npm install -g wiki
   - launch with wiki command, files location ~/.wiki
   - site on: localhost:3000

3. MediaWiki

Installation guides

• Requirements
• Installing on XAMPP

Using XAMPP

• Get mediaWiki
• Get XAMPP for Windows/Linux
• Unzip into /opt/lampp/htdocs
• Change folder access to group:RW others:R

sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start
sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop

Ownership of mediawiki folder

The owner might be root or user but the group should be daemon so that apache can have write access

sudo chown -R nick:daemon /opt/lampp/htdocs/mediawiki

Export data into xml file

For this to work you need packages `php-mysql php-mbstring php-intl`

cd /opt/lampp/htdocs/wiki/maintenance
php dumpBackup.php --full --quiet > ~/Documents/wm-dump.xml

Import data

cd /opt/lampp/htdocs/wiki/maintenance
php importDump.php < ~/Documents/wm-dump.xml

Resources

River Writes - A MediaWiki Blog