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The highly popular Wikipedia has finally convinced me to take a look at what exactly this WikiWiki is.
As usual, there are two main branches of Wiki engines - open source or M$ based making up a long list of WikiEngines from which one may choose to experience this innovative collaborative tool. A number of them are simple one-file installations on IIS or Apache. There is also a free trial server available - SeedWiki is particularly tailored for Wikiwiki. And of course, one may also Wiki MT or Tyepad.
I managed to test several installations yesterday and today first on my pc and then on some free hosting servers:
- AspWiki - simple one file installation. Set up in less than 3 minutes. Need IIS + MS Access.
- Oddmuse - simple one file installation. Set up in 3 minutes. Need IIS or Apache + Perl.
- Openwiki - this offers several configuration possibilites. I tried them all in my IIS.
- the simplest is to use IIS + MS Access, this is pre-configured in the download and setup should be done in 5 minutes;
- it can also make use of mySQL if it is installed. Thanks to phpmyadmin which makes creating a few tables for the Openwiki database relatively painless and lastly
- it can be set up using IIS + MSSQL (MSDE in the case of desktop). This turned out to be most time consuming becasue of the absence of a GUI utility manager for MSDE and everything has to be done using command line osql.
As to the MediaWiki - the engine behind Wikipedia, I will probably leave it until I have got my Mandrakelinux sorted out. MediaWiki is developed primarily under the LAMP environment. Running an installation under IIS can be tricky.
Posted on October 5, 2004 07:10 PM
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