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Neil Williams wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > >> I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but I need some >> suggestions of decent Wiki packages. >> > > DCGLUG uses ErfurtWiki > http://www.dcglug.org.uk/wiki/?id=ErfurtWiki > (henceforth known as ewiki.) > > It is very lightweight, very easy to customise and - with the odd > exception of bad user input - can be persuaded to render valid HTML > quite easily. > > MySQL database, simple directory installation, as you can see from > DCGLUG, edit privileges can be restricted. The only thing that doesn't > quite work in the DCGLUG version is dump to a tar.gz file. > > >> I instantly thought of a Linux box running LAMP with a Wiki on top. >> >> I've setup Ubuntu 6.06 server on an old spare PC today (Dell GX110 - P3 >> 667MHz with 128MB memory and a 20GB hard disk). On top of this I >> installed MySQL 5, PHP 5 and MediaWiki. >> > > Uk. MediaWiki is, to me, a sledgehammer to crack a nut in this scenario. > > >> Ideally I'd like something that is easyish to install and even easier to >> use. >> > > Once I started with ewiki, I simply stopped looking for anything else. > I've considered other wikis, I've tried full CMS tools like Mambo, Zope, > Drupal, Wordpress and about a dozen others. ewiki is very lightweight, > it fits in with *your* design instead of forcing you into the mindset of > the wiki developer and it just gets on with the job. Perfect. > That sounds good too. We don't need anything too complicated. There will only be about 4 or 5 of using the Wiki. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html