How To Install Dokuwiki on Ubuntu 15.04

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configuration of Dokuwiki on your Ubuntu 15.04 server. For those of you who didn’t know, DokuWiki is considered to be the most versatile open-source Wiki software application which is proven to meet your demanding wiki needs. Using a very familiar interface, allows you to easily scale and optimize using many advanced features. Utilizing files instead of a database, DokuWiki is extremely flexible with the type of system it will run on (no database server required).

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple. I will show you the step-by-step installation of Dokuwiki on the Ubuntu 15.04 server.

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu 15.04, and any other Debian-based distribution.
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• SSH access to the server (or just open Terminal if you’re on a desktop).
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install Dokuwiki on Ubuntu 15.04

Step 1. First, make sure that all your system packages are up-to-date by running the following apt-get commands in the terminal.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2. Install the LAMP server.

A Ubuntu 15.04 LAMP server is required. If you do not have LAMP installed, you can follow our guide here.

Step 3. Installing Dokuwiki.

The first thing to do is to go to DokuWiki’s download page and download the latest stable version of Dokuwiki:

wget http://download.dokuwiki.org/src/dokuwiki/dokuwiki-stable.tgz
tar xvf dokuwiki-stable.tgz
mv dokuwiki-*/ /var/www/dokuwiki

We will need to change some folders permissions:

chown www-data:www-data -R /var/www/dokuwiki
chmod -R 707 /var/www/dokuwiki

Step 4. Configuring Apache web server for DokuWiki.

Create a new virtual host directive in Apache. For example, create a new Apache configuration file named ‘dokuwiki.conf’ on your virtual server:

cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf dokuwiki.conf
nano dokuwiki.conf

Add the following lines:

ServerName Example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/dokuwiki/

<Directory /var/www/dokuwiki/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

Now, we can restart the Apache webserver so that the changes take place:

systemctl restart apache2.service

Step 5. Accessing DokuWiki.

DokuWiki will be available on HTTP port 80 by default. Open your favorite browser and navigate to http://yourdomain.com/install.php or http://server-ip/install.php and complete the required steps to finish the installation. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 to enable access to the control panel.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Dokuwiki. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Dokuwiki on your Ubuntu 15.04 system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Dokuwiki website.