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--- faq:linuxonly [2013-07-14 12:56] – Remove childish, unsubstantiated Linux-better-than-Windows 92.230.152.142
+++ faq:linuxonly [2015-02-23 06:00] (current) – old revision restored (2013-10-24 23:03) 141.65.129.225
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 ====== Does DokuWiki have to Run on GNU/Linux? ======
-:?: I really like this wiki, I have seen it used before and want to run it on my server. However, it doesn't mention in the System Requirements section what OS you're supposed to run on your server. I don't run Linux, I run a windows 2k server with Apache, PHP, MySql etc. Can I run this wiki at all on my windows machine? I just noticed you mention permissions being set with chmod which doesn't exist in windows, so I started wondering if I could run it at all.
+:?: The [[:requirements|system requirements]] don't mention what Operating System you're supposed to run on your server. Can I only run this wiki on GNU/Linux?
-:!:  It runs under Apache and PHP - I'm running it on a Windows 2000 Server, Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP Professional machines with no problems so far. The permissions are set differently via the Security tab but the functionality is the same. Other Webservers supporting PHP are reported to work, too, specifically including Microsoft IIS..
-:!: I'm running a DokuWiki on IIS on our intranet. It appears to work just fine so far. You need to have PHP installed, give the IUSR user write rights if you are to have anonymous access (if I was hosting this on the Internet I'd take some time working out which files/folders need 'write' access and limit the write rights to just those), make sure the 'attic', 'cache', 'locks', 'media' folders exist in the root 'data' folder, and create a change.log file in the 'data' folder. You also have to give the IUSR user 'modify' rights if they are to delete pages.
-:!: I'm running DokuWiki under Mac OS X Server, with full user and group authentication via Open Directory working out of the box. Just follow the normal install instructions, and have a look at the example I put in for [[auth:ldap|LDAP authentication]]
-:!: I'm running it on Mac OS X 10.4.10 vanilla, i.e., not server.  Just put it in your ~/Sites.  You will have to access via URL, something like this  http://yourcomputer.local/~you/index.php
-:!: Although it looks like spell checking only works under unix (doesn't work on Windows at all)
-:!: FreeBSD and Apache: OK.
+:!: **No**, it only needs a web server and PHP. Whatever OS supports those is usually fine.
+Please see [[:install#distribution_os_specifics|OS-specific installation instructions]] for a variety of OS. (The list is not exhaustive. If your OS is not listed there, it might well run DokuWiki anyway.)