WiKiss is a lightweight, easy-to-use wiki engine, which is developed in PHP. By following the steps below, you can install the WiKiss on FreeBSD latest version easily.
The first step is to download the WiKiss from its official website. You can download the latest stable release of WiKiss using the following command:
$ wget https://wikiss.tuxfamily.org/static/wikiss-0.3.3.tgz
Once the download is complete, you can extract the downloaded tarball using the following command:
$ tar xvzf wikiss-0.3.3.tgz
This will extract the WiKiss files into a directory named wikiss-0.3.3.
Next, you need to configure the Apache web server to serve the WiKiss engine. You can create a new virtual host by creating a new file in the /usr/local/etc/apache24/Includes directory, named wikiss.conf with the following content:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName wiki.example.com
DocumentRoot /path/to/wikiss-0.3.3
<Directory /path/to/wikiss-0.3.3>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Replace wiki.example.com with your own domain name and /path/to/wikiss-0.3.3 with the directory where you extracted WiKiss.
WiKiss is developed in PHP, so it needs PHP and its modules to run. You can install PHP and its required modules using the following command:
$ pkg install php74 php74-extensions php74-mysqli
WiKiss needs a database to store its data. You can create a new MySQL database as follows:
$ mysql -u root -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE wikiss;
mysql> CREATE USER 'wikissuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
mysql> GRANT ALL ON wikiss.* TO 'wikissuser'@'localhost';
Replace password with a strong password for the wikissuser.
Next, you need to configure WiKiss. Copy the config-dist.php file in the WiKiss directory to config.php using the following command:
$ cd /path/to/wikiss-0.3.3
$ cp config-dist.php config.php
Edit the config.php file and modify the following lines:
$db_server = "localhost";
$db_name = "wikiss";
$db_user = "wikissuser";
$db_pass = "password";
Replace password with the password you set for wikissuser.
Finally, you can access WiKiss by visiting the URL http://wiki.example.com/ in your web browser. You should see the WiKiss homepage, where you can create and manage your wiki pages.
That's it! You have successfully installed WiKiss on FreeBSD latest version. Now you can start creating your wiki pages with WiKiss.
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