DokuWiki is a powerful and highly customizable wiki software that is widely used for documentation purposes. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing DokuWiki on OpenBSD.
Before you begin, you need to have:
The first step is to install all the necessary dependencies required by DokuWiki. OpenBSD’s default package manager is pkg_add, so we will use it to install the dependencies.
sudo pkg_add php php-mbstring php-xml php-zip php-gd
You can download the latest stable version of DokuWiki from their official website using the following command:
curl -L https://download.dokuwiki.org/src/dokuwiki/dokuwiki-stable.tgz | tar zx -C /var/www/
This will download and extract the DokuWiki archive to the /var/www/ directory.
DokuWiki is a PHP-based application that can be served via a web server like Apache or Nginx. In this tutorial, we will use the Apache web server.
First, enable the Apache web server on OpenBSD:
sudo rcctl enable apache
sudo rcctl start apache
Then, create a new virtual host configuration file for DokuWiki:
sudo touch /etc/apache2/htdocs/dokuwiki.conf
sudo vim /etc/apache2/htdocs/dokuwiki.conf
Add the following configuration to the dokuwiki.conf file:
Alias /dokuwiki /var/www/dokuwiki
<Directory /var/www/dokuwiki>
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>
Save and close the file.
Finally, restart the Apache web server to apply the changes:
sudo rcctl restart apache
DokuWiki is now installed and configured on the OpenBSD system but we need to make some changes in the DokuWiki configuration file to access it via the web browser.
To do this, navigate to the /var/www/dokuwiki/conf/ directory and make a copy of the dokuwiki.php configuration file:
cd /var/www/dokuwiki/conf/
sudo cp dokuwiki.php dokuwiki.php.orig
Now, edit the dokuwiki.php file:
sudo vim dokuwiki.php
Inside the file, change the value of $conf['useacl'] and $conf['superuser'] to:
$conf['useacl'] = '1';
$conf['superuser'] = '@admin';
Save and close the file.
The installation and configuration of DokuWiki is completed. You can now access it via the web browser by browsing to http://localhost/dokuwiki.
If you want to access it from a remote system, replace localhost with the IP address or hostname of your OpenBSD system.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install and configure DokuWiki on OpenBSD. You can now use DokuWiki to create and manage your own wiki pages for documentation purposes.
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