An easy Wiki Engine

Question

I am installing a wiki engine on my personal server to make it easier to collaborate with some team members. What is a good engine to use that has the easiest setup, and easiest to use.

It will be on a Debian server running php and mysql.

Answer 1

I use and recommend MoinMoin: http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/

It is a wiki engine written in python and includes evrythign you need (it has an integrated webserver and database engine), though you could use mysql and apache with mod_python if that suits you as well...

Along with that I have used quite a few PHP wiki engines, they are nearly all easy to set up...simply drag php files into your httpdocs directory...

If you are setting this up for software development collaberation, it is hard to beat trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/ again, it is in python and comes with it's own integrated webserver, tracd.

There are quite a few steps to install trac, but it is well worth it...here are the install docs for windows: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracOnWindows, if you use linux, you can usually get by with easy_install.

Answer 2

PMwiki is easy to setup, does not use a database, and works pretty well.

http://www.pmwiki.org/

Answer 3

Personally I would go with Mediawiki. Considering I have very little experience setting up linux software, and I still managed to get it running in less than 10 minutes, I'd say that was fairly easy to set up.

I've even managed to install some extensions and even hack the php source to make one of the extensions slightly better as well.

Since Mediawiki is the software they run Wikipedia on, you know it will handle your wiki data good.

Answer 4

I used DokuWiki with really did work straight out of the box.

I was not happy with the default look & feel of DokuWiki so I recently applied the Monobook theme. This gives it the MediaWiki look & feel.

Answer 5

I've found most wiki software to suck. They are a pain to work with and usually way too feature bloated. So unless it's Trac (which is a pain to setup, but works great for development purposes) I just use pbwiki.

Answer 6

To find the one that best suits your needs, you can use the wizard at WikiMatrix.

You answer a few questions and it gives you a list of engines that fit your answers and a link to compare them.

Answer 7

I decided to go with mediawiki, it was extremely easy to set up, and manage.