WiKiss is a free, open-source wiki application designed for personal or small organizational use, it is easy to install and use, and it comes with a set of features that make wiki management user-friendly.
In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install WiKiss on Debian Latest using a few simple steps.
WiKiss is a web-based application; hence it requires a web server to function. Install the apache2 web server using the following command on your terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apache2
WiKiss is written in PHP, thus, you need to install PHP and required PHP extensions.
sudo apt-get install php php-cli php-curl php-gd php-json php-mbstring php-mysql php-xml libapache2-mod-php
WiKiss stores its data in an SQLite database. You need to install SQLite database support libraries to enable WiKiss to communicate with the SQLite database.
sudo apt-get install sqlite sqlite3 php-sqlite3
Go to the WiKiss download page, download the latest version of WiKiss and extract it under your web server's document root. The web page files for WiKiss should be available under "var/www/html/wikiss" if this is where your Apache document root is located.
cd /var/www/html
sudo wget https://lut.im/2Z9WB9ZBg7/nczC94Gpo7Vd3kOg.tar.gz
sudo tar -zxvf nczC94Gpo7Vd3kOg.tar.gz
Create the WiKiss database by running the following command on your terminal:
cd /var/www/html/wikiss/scripts
sudo sqlite3 ../wikiss.db < dk.sql
To enable your web server to serve WiKiss, create a new VirtualHost directive for WiKiss by creating a new configuration file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ web server configuration directory.
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wikiss.conf
Add the following content to the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wikiss
ServerName example.com
<Directory /var/www/html/wikiss/>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
Remember to replace the "ServerName" value with your server name or IP address. Also, ensure that the document root path matches the location of WiKiss web page files.
Once you have finished creating the file, enable the new configuration by running:
sudo a2ensite wikiss.conf
Restart the Apache web server by running:
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Open your web browser and go to the following URL:
http://ip-address-or-domain-name/wikiss/
You should be redirected to the WiKiss login page, enter the default username and password.
After this, you will be required to change the password for security reasons.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed WiKiss on Debian Latest!
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