Day: June 19, 2013

Wiki Engine and Wiki Farm

What are Wiki Engine and Wiki Farm?

  • Wiki engine or wiki software runs a wiki, i.e. you can integrate it to your own website with your own domain name.
  • Wiki farm is wiki hosting service. Many but not all of them live by advertisement.

Which Wiki Engine to use?

Which Wiki Farm to use?

Personal choice

I use MediaWiki, which is a Wiki Engine with a preference close to Wikipedia. It is based on PHP and database software (e.g. MySQL and SQLite3). The database allows as many pages as you want (I heard another wiki engine MoinMoin uses text file and is okey for < 10K pages). It is full featured and has many extensions.

Setup local website on OS X

I am developing a website using LAMP, a dev toolkit of a combination of free and open source software. In particular, I am using Perl-based MVC framework Catalyst. Catalyst comes with PSGI server, i.e. you can run your web app without Apache. However, when I try to integrate my web app with MeidaWiki, a wiki engined based on PHP, I still need to setup  LAMP. Here are two posts I found particularly useful.