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.

  Oct 29, 2018 (rev. Sep 16, 2025) ·  10 min

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.

  Apr 1, 2018 (rev. Sep 16, 2025) ·  9 min