Making my own local Wiki

[Ichinisan]

How do I start experimenting as quickly as possible? I know I can download a package from Wikimedia Foundation and set up a server, but I want to avoid any stumbling blocks if possible. Is there a virtual machine image to download that already has everything ready for a brand-new local/internal Wiki?



Otherwise, I have a notion that I should download a WAMP package. What is the best one to download?

Searching Google for "WAMP download" leads to this URL: http://www.wampserver.com/en/

It looks like a commercial product and I'm not sure if I trust it. Though the URL implies "EN" for "English," the page title is in French.



Rather than WAMP, would it be better to virtualize Linux and run a LAMP package? I don't really know Linux at all.

 

[paperwastage]

Used to use turnkey linux when I was playing around with redmine

https://www.turnkeylinux.org/wiki

contains ISO and VM image (openstack, Virtualbox, vmware, openvz etc...)
https://www.turnkeylinux.org/docs/builds

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Turnkey looks interesting.

It's "LAMP" server, not "WAMP" server. Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. It's the general-purpose Web Server stack.

If you have a generic Ubuntu server set up, there are pretty easy-to-follow directions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MediaWiki

And also a link back to https://www.turnkeylinux.org/mediawiki

Personally, I'd be tempted to try a few different wiki platforms. Mediawiki is pretty cool, but kinda nasty looking and administration is sort of weird, IMO.

 

[Crusty]

Turnkey looks interesting.

It's "LAMP" server, not "WAMP" server. Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. It's the general-purpose Web Server stack.

If you have a generic Ubuntu server set up, there are pretty easy-to-follow directions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MediaWiki

And also a link back to https://www.turnkeylinux.org/mediawiki

Personally, I'd be tempted to try a few different wiki platforms. Mediawiki is pretty cool, but kinda nasty looking and administration is sort of weird, IMO.

WAMP = Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP 😛