How to install/upload a dokuwiki on a hosted server / webhost

Posted by rolf on Thursday, 12 March 2015
  1. Create an account at a webhost. There are also free ones out there, e.g. cwcity.de, but then you get bombed with advertisement.
  2. Download Dokuwiki at http://download.dokuwiki.org/ and unzip it (on your local computer)
  3. Install a FTP client, e.g. the Firefox Addon "FireFTP" or the software "filezilla" or in Linux the file browser "nautilus".
  4. Connect to your webhost/website (e.g. myExsampleWebsite) via FTP and copy/upload the dokuwiki (i.e. all the folders and files, amongst others bin,conf,data,inc,....) on the server in the path of your choice (e.g. myDokuWiki)
  5. If you already had a dokuwiki you also need to copy the folders "pages" and "media", your plugins. They live in dokuwiki/data/pages/**, dokuwiki/data/media**, dokuwiki/lib/plugins
  6. If you get the error "{DOCUMENT_ROOT}data is not writable by DokuWiki. You need to fix the permission settings of this directory!" you have to change the permissions of the folder data (and all its subfolders) probably to 777 (i.e. "create and delete files" for the three parties "owner", "group" and "others").
  7. Enable ACL rights by browsing to www.myExsampleWebsite/myDokuWiki/install.php if you want to restrict reading and writing rights to your dokuwiki (highly recommended to change the Initial ACL policy to "Public Wiki" or "Closed Wiki" ).
  8. The dokuwiki can be accessed by browsing to the URL www.myExsampleWebsite/myDokuWiki
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