WiKiss is a lightweight and simple wiki engine that allows you to create and manage your own private wiki. It is written in PHP and requires a web server with PHP installed. In this tutorial, we will guide you on how to install WiKiss on POP! OS Latest.
Before we begin installing WiKiss, we need to make sure that the required packages are installed on our system. Open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo apt-get install apache2 php php-mbstring php-zip php-gd php-xml git
This command will install the Apache web server, PHP and the necessary PHP extensions, and Git.
Next, we need to clone the WiKiss repository to our web server directory. By default, the web server directory on POP! OS is /var/www/html/. Open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo git clone https://framagit.org/wikiss/wikiss.git /var/www/html/wikiss
This will clone the WiKiss repository to the wikiss directory under the web server directory.
We need to configure Apache to serve the WiKiss files. Open a terminal and run the following command to create a new Apache configuration file:
sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/wikiss.conf
Copy and paste the following code into the file:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.com
ServerAlias www.example.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/wikiss
<Directory /var/www/html/wikiss>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Replace example.com and www.example.com with your domain name or IP address. Save and close the file by pressing CTRL+O, Enter, and then CTRL+X.
Next, enable the new Apache configuration and restart the Apache service:
sudo a2ensite wikiss.conf
sudo systemctl restart apache2
Now that Apache is configured for WiKiss, we can install WiKiss. Open a web browser and navigate to http://example.com/wikiss/install.php, where example.com is your domain name or IP address.
Follow the instructions on the installation page to configure WiKiss. Be sure to set the correct database details and admin credentials.
Once WiKiss is installed, you can access it by navigating to http://example.com/wikiss in your web browser. You should see the WiKiss homepage with all the default pages.
You have successfully installed WiKiss on POP! OS Latest. From here, you can start creating and managing your own private wiki.
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