Since using the Wiki to create web pages might be new to some of you, there will be question – this page is intended to collect them and (hopefully) provide some answers.

• How do I add a new user?
• Why Dokuwiki?
• Upload limit for media files

If you have administrator permissions:

1. Click on the “Admin” link on the bottom of any Wiki page.
2. From the list of administrative tasks available in DokuWiki select “User Manager” – you will be presented with a page containing an overview of the existing users and related account details.
3. On the bottom of the page you will find an input mask for the creation of a new user account. Fill in the account details and click on “Add”.
   

DokuWiki is a standards compliant, simple to use Wiki, mainly aimed at creating documentation of any kind. It is targeted at developer teams, workgroups and small companies. It has a simple but powerful Formatting Syntax which makes sure the datafiles remain readable outside the Wiki and eases the creation of structured texts. All data is stored in plain text files – no database is required.

• DokuWiki installs out-of-the-box; the resulting installation is contained within a single directory, which makes it very easy for moving it from one place to the other.
• DokuWiki supports a full Unix-type access control mechanism, by which permissions can be set in a very flexible way; this allows for keeping access to certain parts of the Wiki restricted, whereas other parts may be fully open. Also there may be pages, which might be world-wide readable, by only editable by a small group of registered users. Access rights can be set/granted via a simple to use graphical interface (which is available to the administrator) or by directly editing the file in which the settings are stored
  One the issue of access control the following statement can be found in the documentation for the MediaWiki:

  What can't MediaWiki do?
  
  While versatile, MediaWiki isn't suited to all purposes. In particular,
  users should remember that it is designed to allow open-editing, and
  doesn't provide very complex per-page access restrictions. Users seeking
  such functionality ought to consider using software dedicated to that
  purpose, such as document or content management software.

• The Formatting Syntax is easy to understand and learn; the most important mark-ups can be selected and used from the editor window.

In order to avoid upload of media files – pictures, movies, presentations, etc. – of arbitrary size, DokuWiki's MediaManager only will accept files up to a certain size, the limit being taken from the PHP configuration file /etc/php.ini:

; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
post_max_size = 100M

[....]

; Whether to allow HTTP file uploads.
file_uploads = On

; Temporary directory for HTTP uploaded files (will use system default if not
; specified).
;upload_tmp_dir =

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 100M

In order for the changes to take effect, the web server needs to be restarted:

cd /etc/init.d
./httpd restart

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