Why DokuWiki Rules

• First of all, it's called "dokuwiki". Dah-kyoo-wih-key. It's fun to say.
• It keeps all the wiki-syntax source in flat text files, making them editable by other programs
• Nice, clean, mellow stylesheeting
• It automates hierarchy within a page, building an index of your headings at the top of the page if you have more than three.
• It sounds like it was taken from Zelda. (hm... the author's site icon is a nut... and it is all about links...)
• It has more sophisticated features available but not required, including
• permissions via ACL
• 'namespaces' which serve as directories for pages
• built-in site index showing extant pages in an expandable outline form
• complicated structures like tables
• interwiki links
• link typing - automates internal, external, interwiki, and acronym links
• it's open source PHP on Apache-- common tools.

Installation was even easy... after a fashion. To install it on OS 10.3 I needed to have Darwinports. Darwinports required XCode, which wasn't on the machine I wanted to use. I installed XCode but couldn't get Darwinports to install after about two hours of trying. No love came from the Darwinports list, so I gave up and tried an Aqua app. That kept everything in a database, though, and was ugly and low on features to boot. Then... I installed DokuWiki on my company's hosted webserver and ... a half hour later it was running with ACL security active and HTML enabled. Wow!