====== DokuWiki on free.fr? ======

[[http://www.free.fr|free.fr]] is a popular french hosting provider, giving away free hosting plans. Unfortnately free.fr cripples their PHP configuration beyond anything that can be supported by DokuWiki.

**DokuWiki will not run on free.fr out of the box.**

We recommend using alternative hosters.

Please do not report any bugs regarding running DokuWiki on free.fr before making sure that they still exist when using a different provider.

===== Patching DokuWiki =====

Some people had success with changing parts of DokuWiki to work around some limitations of free.fr. More info about this can be found in these forum threads:

  *[[http://forum.dokuwiki.org/thread/98|Hébergement chez Free]]
  *[[http://forum.dokuwiki.org/thread/237|Fatal error mkdir(.../data/locks/...) ... File exists]]
  *[[http://forum.dokuwiki.org/post/1733|Patch pour free.fr]]
  *[[https://forum.dokuwiki.org/thread/7111|Solution pour free.fr, dokuwiki toute version, (pas un patch)]]

A list of websites on Free.Fr which run DokuWiki, successfully, is collected [[http://hemmerling.free.fr/doku.php/en/dokuwiki.html#dokuwiki_sites_on_free.fr|here]].

The most serious, currently unsolved limitation of patched DokuWiki 2009-02-14 on Free.Fr is, that the media manager of DokuWiki corrupts "big" media files during loading, see [[http://hemmerling.free.fr/doku.php/en/dokuwiki.html#dokuwiki_on_free.fr_howto|here]]. No verification of this bug for patched DokuWiki 2008-05-05 so far.