There are separate upgrade instructions if you have an existing installation.
Installing DokuWiki is very easy - in general it's just a matter of unpacking and setting permissions. You should first try to follow the simple instructions given here, if you encounter problems or the instructions are not detailed enough for you, follow one of the links below.
Step 4: Open the install.php in your browser and follow the instructions. (For additional information, see the
installer page.)
Step 5: Enjoy your DokuWiki install and browse through the
manual to discover what you can do with it
A screencast of installing DokuWiki shows installation to a shared web hosting provider, but it may be useful for other situations as well.
If you encounter problems following the steps above or need some detailed information for one of the steps check out these pages:
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DokuWiki Bitnami Stack – an installer which deploys DokuWiki and all that's necessary to run it (Apache,
PHP). Available for Windows, Linux, Mac x86, Mac PPC, Solaris x86 and Solaris SPARC.
DokuWiki Bitnami Module – an installer which deploys DokuWiki on top of LAMPStack if you are using Linux, or MAMPStack, WAMPStack or SAMPstack if you are using Mac, Windows or Solaris allowing to share database, webserver and language runtime with other applications modules.
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Here is what you may want to do when everything is up and working:
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Choose a license for your content – use config
license or edit the
footer.html inside the dokuwiki/lib/tpl/… folder if your template doesn't use tpl_licence() introduced with DokuWiki 2009-02-14.
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Read:
If you've encountered problems installing DokuWiki, and you've carefully checked each of the steps above:
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upload your files again -
FTP corruption is a common cause for problems. Uploading a zip file and extracting on the server may be more reliable than uploading files individually
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