WackoWiki is the wiki of my choice and one of the first opensource project I’ve ever contributed. I still use wackowiki for personal use!
A few days ago, wackowiki released version 6.0.25. In this blog post, I will try to share my experience of installing wackowiki on a new VM ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
Ansible Role
I have updated the WackoWiki Ansible Role on my personal github account to represent all necessary steps of this article.
Terraform files
In order to test/verify wackowiki installation and ansible role, I use a virtual machine on my home lab. To make this fast and reproducable, I have uploaded my terraform files that I used on my lab here: GitHub
Requirements
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
apt-get update
apt -y install /
php /
php-common /
php-bcmath /
php-ctype /
php-gd /
php-iconv /
php-json /
php-mbstring /
php-mysql /
apache2 /
libapache2-mod-php /
mariadb-server /
unzip
Apache2
We need to enable mod_reqwrite in apache2 but also to add the appropiate configuration in the default conf in VirtualHost
sudo -i
a2enmod rewrite
vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
...
# enable.htaccess
<Directory /var/www/html/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
...
</VirtualHost>
MySQL
wacko.sql
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS wacko;
CREATE USER IF NOT EXISTS 'wacko'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YOURNEWPASSWORD';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wacko.* TO 'wacko'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
sudo -i
mysql < wacko.sql
Get WackoWiki
curl -sLO https://downloads.sourceforge.net/wackowiki/wacko.6.0.25.zip
unzip wacko.6.0.25.zip
mv wackowiki-6.0.25/wacko /var/www/html/wacko/
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/wacko/
Web Installation
Post Install
Last, we need to remove write permission for the wackowiki configuration file and remove setup folder
sudo -i
chmod -w /var/www/html/wacko/config/config.php
rm -rf /var/www/html/wacko/setup/
Simple WackoWiki Walkthrough
