[lug] Wiki server suggestions for small organization

[Steve Litt]

>On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:06:11 -0700
>Vince Dean wrote:
>
>>   * The site should be easy for our team members to search and
>> update. Artists are not known for their tech skills.  
>

>
>My thought was dropping a Pi or something like that onto your network,
>and running DokuWiki on it. But that requires you have a network at
>all. I'm not sure what to read into, "don't want to own or maintain a
>public-facing web server", because that implies to me a private
>server, somewhere, which fits with your example of an in-house wiki.

My impression is that the server serves only to the LAN to which it's
connected. I serve some in-house only stuff via nginx on my Daily
Driver Desktop (DDD).

>
>I like DokuWiki because it's so simple to set up and administer. 

Thanks. I'll try it.

> But
>you do need to have a web server to run it on. Thus my question re.
>in-house IT support. For my own purposes, I don't find it a burden to
>run Apache at home, but I don't kid myself that my Apache config is
>properly hardened for being accessible to the WWW at large. The ports
>are simply not open. Maybe nginx or lighthttpd are easier to
>administer.

My opinion is that nginx is pretty easy.

Steve

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