Personal Wiki
Ok, today I set up my own personal "Wiki" on my 1 gig thumb drive. It was quite easy once you knew what all to do.
First you need to pick which wiki you want to install. Upon a great deal of searching I found there are literally hundreds. I picked "Media Wiki" because it's easy to use, and it's the same used by Wikipedia, a popular online encyclopedia. Also, please look up the requirements of whichever wiki you choose to use. Media Wiki required Apache, MySQL, and PHP in order to run.
Actually because of the other things required I turned to WAMP5! Yes, this all in one, do it yourself program was ever so helpful in the long run. It installs all 3, Apache server, MySQL, and PHP5 in one swoop while also giving me a handy systool that sits in my systray to control the lot of em.
Upon installing WAMP5 which comes first, I extracted Media Wiki to Wamp's "www" directory. Since we're dealing with a web basis I went to the http://localhost/ and modified my php settings a bit, add a password, modify upload and download limitations, etc.
Finally I went to my new Wiki at http://localhost/akwiki
From here, since it hasn't been yet, the wiki wants you to set it up. All of this is very basic. After that congrats, start editing you silicon samurai, you coding cowboys...you princes of your own domain.
AK
First you need to pick which wiki you want to install. Upon a great deal of searching I found there are literally hundreds. I picked "Media Wiki" because it's easy to use, and it's the same used by Wikipedia, a popular online encyclopedia. Also, please look up the requirements of whichever wiki you choose to use. Media Wiki required Apache, MySQL, and PHP in order to run.
Actually because of the other things required I turned to WAMP5! Yes, this all in one, do it yourself program was ever so helpful in the long run. It installs all 3, Apache server, MySQL, and PHP5 in one swoop while also giving me a handy systool that sits in my systray to control the lot of em.
Upon installing WAMP5 which comes first, I extracted Media Wiki to Wamp's "www" directory. Since we're dealing with a web basis I went to the http://localhost/ and modified my php settings a bit, add a password, modify upload and download limitations, etc.
Finally I went to my new Wiki at http://localhost/akwiki
From here, since it hasn't been yet, the wiki wants you to set it up. All of this is very basic. After that congrats, start editing you silicon samurai, you coding cowboys...you princes of your own domain.
AK
posted by Akiratima at 6/27/2006 12:19:00 AM
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