Setting up a wiki

Crispy · 8 Sep 2007 at 23:52

I'm thinking of setting up a public wiki, but to be honest I know next to nothing about web design, hosting etc.

Is there an easy way to set up a wiki and get it running without tying myself into anything? If it gets reasonably popular I would be interested in learning much more about doing this stuff myself so would need the wiki to be "portable" and "scalable".

Jaffa_Cake · 9 Sep 2007 at 15:46

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki

This works a charm

Very easy to use.

matja · 9 Sep 2007 at 15:50

^ what Jaffa_Cake here said.

We use MediaWiki on a few internal websites at work for each project - design, milestones etc - like a poor man's CMS. Takes less than 5 minutes to install if you know the ropes of your webserver and MySQL.

I also installed a free extension that uses the web-server's authentication rather than MediaWiki's own - coupled with mod_authldap in Apache pointing at our win2003 servers, people can login with their Windows domain username/password. Win tbh

Crispy · 9 Sep 2007 at 20:31

Thanks, I'll have a look at that.

Crispy