Directory Layout

dokuwiki – DokuWiki root directory - maybe you named it differently
- .git – git metadata, you have this only if you're using a git checkout
- .github – configures workflows and other things for github
- _test – contains the Unit Test Suite, configurations for coding style, rector
- bin – Collection of command line tools
- conf – Configuration data is stored here
  - users.auth.php – user data is stored here including group membership and passwords
  - local.php – Configuration settings
  - local.protected.php – Configuration settings made in this file cannot then be changed in the web interface
  - plugins*.php – values in these files determine whether plugins are enabled or not
  - acronyms.php – Where these appear in your text a mouse over will be displayed with the corresponding description
- data – All data that is written by DokuWiki is stored here (see savedir), the changelog is placed here, too
  - attic – old page revisions are stored here, it contains namespace directories
  - cache – DokuWiki creates cachefiles to speed things up - cachefiles have md5 filenames and are stored inside 16 directories here, sorted by their first letter (0-f)
  - index – Stores lookup tables for the fulltext search index
  - locks – This directory is used to create temporary locks (not pagelocks)
  - log – Stores the logging
  - media – Here are all image files stored, it contains namespace directories
  - media_attic– old revisions of media files
  - media_meta – meta data for media files
  - meta – Stores meta data for pages, it contains namespace directories
  - pages – Here are the raw pages stored, it contains namespace directories
  - tmp – Used to store temporary files via XML-RPC, etc.
- inc – Contains PHP libs – the core of DokuWiki
  - lang – DokuWiki's language files used for localization
  - parser – DokuWiki's parser system
- lib – Files that get called externally (from your browser)
  - exe – Externally accessed PHP files
  - images – Images files
    - admin – icons for the admin section
    - fileicons – icons for files per mime type
    - interwiki – interwiki icons
    - license – buttons and badges for configured licenses
    - menu – svg icons for menus
    - smileys – smiley icons
    - toolbar – toolbar icons
  - plugins – Plugins are stored here
    - acl – The ACL plugin
    - authad – The Active Directory authentication plugin
    - authldap – The LDAP authentication plugin
    - authpdo – The PDO authentication plugin
    - authplain – The Plain authentication plugin
    - config – The Configuration Settings plugin
    - extension – The Extension Manager
    - info – The Info plugin
    - logviewer – The Logviewer plugin
    - popularity – The Popularity Feedback Plugin
    - revert – The Revert plugin
    - safefnrecode– The safefnrecode plugin
    - styling – The Styling plugin
    - testing – The testing plugin
    - usermanager– The UserManager
  - scripts – JavaScript files
    - jquery – The jQuery library
  - styles – Basic CSS style files ¹⁾
  - tpl – Template
    - dokuwiki – The default template
- vendor – files managed by composer

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Custom style files see /conf folder, template-specific ones see template folder(s).