From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon May 7 01:53:48 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10898FCC8A6 for ; Mon, 7 May 2018 01:53:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zgreenfelder@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qk0-x22f.google.com (mail-qk0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22f]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 80BEB7B84A for ; Mon, 7 May 2018 01:53:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zgreenfelder@gmail.com) Received: by mail-qk0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id c70so20758548qkg.0 for ; Sun, 06 May 2018 18:53:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:openpgp:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding:content-language; bh=wCa1kuKzMD6sdS4CekIRVti8xKlP/VVeh8c3yRGMv94=; b=SZaUeEmBr104zOduhep1f20BRCEh/uKKPMXN5n05x5aDy/xX03B9STppl+L/qu9MTk DnxwcFgwSfBF9HaJ0ZNKnRQ/syQ5RKQdQIOSK/dYK6J/TDWCmL9pQfB1XecqCucQskTi wPb3uSsg/7MAOWVtSnSrOnV64auk71Wcp4sKGhqYuIX5rCxndCQYCU9zw5GgDW50z54a v+9FYjQfR6QPa6HKmukQJ5WVnS8uW3U7Hwqp0kBuix0EMozdY9bMcEKWo3kLUTNsPM4P g3+QjAzKKWK2BfUnmipf833vI6w6Rb6NChhuoiBYTQhIKB+t0oUVI7+iBFy00jCgbQaA E0Lw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:openpgp:message-id :date:user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding :content-language; bh=wCa1kuKzMD6sdS4CekIRVti8xKlP/VVeh8c3yRGMv94=; b=qMoj+JdlikYChEZey+yWYqa2VuRxJvR/LZUYKxh/7HtkUk4Tou9309MrM5Twz4RQxt dkjZ82wcl5TJZTDVzDAXuRrwK52rDBczka9OrfYDPT32p39ztrDtW69V6hBCOA1CSbCL Tdr7QJUtU3YKMrsLByTgvm682+wgYuOLAPf4ujr5gASgw9Ip4v59hPu3tssGDrmhCtHg C5iXZO3IjTbpOGXtNLscVD/jDAexKICMxwHmc3e0F48bllMECo/g4O9JEd5qdeFSTg4V dB5wAbnfs/QTowkXzhz7374HD8pgL90YfyrXW/78lWzlRvbhKK6jtpsHvGAmWSP75Z97 EPqg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALQs6tC6TZ2I4iCLEer+jFNIw5WGom3HVdbiHDHVWwMubDaGsU7sEuH3 K21wo0nvVa4LeqTp5t52SQlYMTsr X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZr3PBArbI9cEdZrPvgPaCVTcbp1TciT+GZNFC3/gPKEikIqSmfPb+FWhXDcyUAXwJ7uzWXhmQ== X-Received: by 10.55.186.196 with SMTP id k187mr27047102qkf.66.1525658026179; Sun, 06 May 2018 18:53:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.10.127] (pool-72-66-73-211.washdc.fios.verizon.net. [72.66.73.211]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m10sm18381427qkh.20.2018.05.06.18.53.44 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 06 May 2018 18:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Looking for wiki software To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: From: zep Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <829b109b-da58-96c3-59e2-74df74bef4db@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 6 May 2018 21:53:44 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 May 2018 01:53:48 -0000 On 05/05/2018 06:53 AM, Chris Hill wrote: > Hello list, > > I'm looking for advice and opinions on wiki software. This would be > for use by a small business group, probably not more than 25 or so > users in total. The idea is that each user would contribute material > on subjects in which he is "expert." Eventually we end up with solid > documentation of our processes and our homegrown software, and then > things don't go to hell as much the next time someone is nearly killed > in an accident. > > I have a reasonably decent machine on which to run this, but still it > would be nice if the solution were, for example, not too heavy on the > build- and run-dependencies. > > Other nice-to-haves: > >  . Easy user management, ideally with self-signup >  . Use with http server of my choice, i.e. server-agnostic >  . TLS supported > > I'd be grateful for any suggestions, or for stories of good or bad > experiences. > my choice for this is/would be dokuwiki - it's very light, there's no database or external things to go sideways, all your files are stored as plain text if something does go wildly sideways, it's just text.   should be very easy to recover/backup.   I've only ever tried to run it under apache, but it ... might?  work with other webservers, probably nginx fairly easily, maybe more.  I think the only thing it needs to run is ... maybe php and a 'user that httpd runs as writable filesystem'.  there are minimal bells/whistles to this, though.   user mgmt is basically .ht files. -- public gpg key id: 0x5B8147CB