DokuWiki

DokuWiki is a wiki that stores data in plain files and to priviledge distinct users for viewing articles.

Website

DokuWiki's website is http://www.dokuwiki.org/

Installing

To install dokuwiki, e.g. on SUSE Linux 11.2, you will need a running http service that is php enabled.

yast -i apache2
yast -i apache2-mod_php5
/etc/init.d/apache2 start

Redirect

To make what mediawiki calls a redirect, use the goto plugin: http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:goto

Hints

make it similar to mediawiki

template

• use the monobook template as mediawiki does
• adapt :wiki:navigation to contain

* [[:start]]
* [[http://yourhost/dokuwiki/doku.php?do=recent|Recent Changes]]
* [[http://yourhost/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=wiki&do=admin&page=statistics|Statistics]]

syntax

• install the MediaSyntax plugin

pcre

There are a lot of issues regarding pcre. One is that you may not be able to log in if you have not compiled pcre with the option --enable-utf8. So, here is how to compile pcre to work with dokuwiki:

./configure --enable-utf8 && make -j8 && make install