Easiest Wiki to Install on Ubuntu Server?

[ryharv]

Hi,

I'm running a simple apache server on Ubuntu. It's working fine for serving up html and other files just like I want it to.

I'd love to install a wiki that I can edit from anywhere, via a broswer. I've tried to install Instiki (based on ruby on rails) and Twiki. No luck with either of them. I wouldn't say Ubuntu is foreign to me, but I'm also not a super-user.

Has anyone installed a wiki (any wiki) easily on ubuntu, with minimal configuration? What's the easiest one?

Thanks for your help.

[elst]

Ubuntu has packages for MoinMoin, which is an excellent product. It's actually the software that the Ubuntu Wiki uses.

[hagen00]

We use wikimedia, which is the one that wikipedia uses. Installs very easily and is super cool.

[technodigifreak]

Has anyone installed a wiki (any wiki) easily on ubuntu, with minimal configuration? What's the easiest one?

TiddlyWiki http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

It's a single html file, you only need to drop it into a web accessible folder and change the permissions to read/write. Full howto is on the webpage, but it's nice because you don't even need a webserver to run it locally, just a web browser.

[EmmEff]

We use wikimedia, which is the one that wikipedia uses. Installs very easily and is super cool.

It's actually called MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org) :)

[technodigifreak]

It's actually called MediaWiki (http://www.mediawiki.org) :)

yeah, MediaWiki kicks! Too bad it's a heavy install.

[EmmEff]

I guess for any heavily used wiki, it's probably best to be backed by a database.

[technodigifreak]

Well they did ask for the easiest...........

TiddlyWiki is just copy and paste....no configuration what-so-ever. :D

[engla]

Ikiwiki is a pretty new but unixy wiki -- it uses svn for storage, markdown for syntax and can be either read-only (only local updates, for example via ssh) or remote with full cgi.

[pmasiar]

I'd love to install a wiki ... but I'm also not a super-user.

Yes, you are! You *are* sudoer on your box, it means you are superuser! :-)

Easiest wiki to use is: get own free wiki at pbwiki.com. No installation required - cannot be easier than that! :-)
You can keep it private and/or share password with couple of people.

If you want to install it on your own box, synaptic will install you MoinMoin. But you need to learn how to administer it etc.

To make your life as unexperienced superuser :-) easier, let me suggest you mc - midnight commander (older between us may remember norton commander). Synaptic will install it. You can run it in terminal, look around file system, do stuff in a way which is very visual but it is not GUI and you can run it remotely over ssh. Try it, and your sudoer's life will change forever! :-)


TiddlyWiki http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

It's a single html file, you only need to drop it into a web accessible folder and change the permissions to read/write.

So for edit, browser will dowload the page. How I would write? Upload the page?

I guess for any heavily used wiki, it's probably best to be backed by a database.

Not obvious to me. Quite the opposite: text-based wiki, (page versions in svn) can grab the latest page (in internal wiki format) as text file, and render it into HTML. No database overhead. Simple text diff. How do you store versions of the same page in database? Full page text?

Because you have like 10-100 reads for every edit, it makes sense to optimize for reading pages. IMHO, YMMV.

[az]

I thought there was a documentation page on how to install mediawiki. It is really straightforward.

You can follow this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal
but substitute mediawiki.

A lot of LAMP web applications are installed the same.

[rcmc2020]

I agree that MediaWiki is great. If you start with a working LAMP server, it takes about 3 minutes to install and configure a working copy of MediaWiki. You have to know a little PHP to start customizing it but you'll really have to dig around for up-to-date documentation. It's worth it though because it's a very solid and flexible package.