PmWiki is a free and open-source wiki-based content management system that is easy to install and customize. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing PmWiki on the Debian Linux operating system.
Before we install PmWiki, we need to ensure that our Debian Linux system is up to date.
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
The installation process of PmWiki on Debian is straightforward, and we can install it using the following steps:
We must have an Apache webserver installed on our Debian system to be able to run PmWiki. We can install Apache by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install apache2 -y
Once we have the Apache webserver installed, we can proceed with the installation of PHP and its required modules. We can install PHP by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql -y
The packages that we have installed are:
php: It is the package that includes the PHP programming language itself.libapache2-mod-php: It is a module that enables the webserver to process PHP files.php-mysql: It is an extention that provides PHP access to MySQL/MariaDB databases.Now that we have installed Apache and PHP, we can download the latest PmWiki version from https://www.pmwiki.org. We can download it using wget command:
wget https://www.pmwiki.org/pub/pmwiki/pmwiki-latest.tar.gz
After downloading the PmWiki archive, we need to extract it to the Apache webserver's default website directory /var/www/html.
sudo tar xvzf pmwiki-latest.tar.gz -C /var/www/html/
We need to set permissions to the PmWiki directory to make Apache webserver able to write to the site's directories.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/pmwiki/
sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/html/pmwiki/
Now we can configure PmWiki to make it ready for use. Create a "config.php" file in "/var/www/html/pmwiki/local/" directory.
sudo nano /var/www/html/pmwiki/local/config.php
Paste the following content to that file:
<?php if (!defined('PmWiki')) exit();
$WikiTitle = 'Your Wiki Name';
$DefaultPasswords['admin'] = crypt('password');
Replace 'Your Wiki Name' and 'password' with your desired values.
Save the file and exit.
After configuring everything, we need to restart the Apache web server to apply the changes.
sudo systemctl restart apache2
In this tutorial, we have explained how to install PmWiki on the Debian operating system. Once you have completed these steps, you should be able to run PmWiki on your server. You can access PmWiki in your web browser by going to http://SERVER_IP_ADDRESS/pmwiki/ where SERVER_IP_ADDRESS is your Debian server’s public IP address.
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