Grant Winney

Wiki

Hosting a GitHub wiki on Ubuntu (and keeping it in sync)

Hosting a GitHub wiki on Ubuntu (and keeping it in sync)

I've always been a fan of wikis, but GitHub's is so poorly designed it doesn't get much love. I once wrote about cloning a wiki locally and editing it using Gollum, but now I'm taking a look at hosting it externally on DigitalOcean, using Gollum and keeping it in sync with the repo hosted on GitHub.

Create a secure, personal instance of DokuWiki on DigitalOcean

Create a secure, personal instance of DokuWiki on DigitalOcean

I've been thinking for awhile now that I wanted to setup a wiki. I wanted something light-weight, with support for uploading images and files. And I wanted to retain control over the data and configuration, as well as encrypt access to it. Here's how to install DokuWiki on Ubuntu with DigitalOcean.