DokuWiki gives a team a place to maintain shared instructions and reference pages without operating a separate database server. It stores wiki content in files and provides editing, access controls and authentication integrations. That can suit teams who want a straightforward documentation service and a file-based backup model. The full installation includes more than page text: uploaded media, configuration and any plugins also need to be preserved when moving it.
Deployment and operating notes
The historical stable chart is one old packaging choice for DokuWiki. The project has an official Docker-image repository, while DokuWiki’s application source remains separate. Container availability does not establish a maintained Helm chart or guarantee that an old plugin works with a new PHP and DokuWiki release.
Inventory the persistent data tree, configuration, authentication backend, templates and plugins before moving images. Preserve page revisions, media and access-control files together, and check the target image’s expected volume layout and filesystem ownership. Rehearse restoration on a private hostname and verify login, permissions, editing, media upload and search. Avoid enabling historical HTML-related capabilities or third-party plugins solely because they appear in the recovered feature list. A shared volume does not automatically make simultaneous writers or multiple replicas safe for every plugin. Keep the original files and image until the upgraded installation can be restored independently; image rollback alone may not undo plugin or application changes to stored data.
Historical upstream link check · 2026-10-09
The recorded upstream address responded successfully (HTTP 200) on 2026-10-09. GitHub confirms that helm/charts is archived: this is a historical chart distribution, not evidence that the application itself is retired. Link availability does not certify the historical installation instructions or current security support.
Website availability is separate from project, chart and image support. Use the current guidance and primary sources on this page to assess the distribution.
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DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source wiki software that doesn’t require a database. It is loved by users for its clean and readable syntax. The ease of maintenance, backup and integration makes it an administrator’s favorite. Built in access controls and authentication connectors make DokuWiki especially useful in the enterprise context and the large number of plugins contributed by its vibrant community allow for a broad range of use cases beyond a traditional wiki.
Why DokuWiki?
DokuWiki is a popular choice when choosing a Wiki software and has many advantages over similar software.
Features
Basic Features
- Simple syntax
- Embedding of HTML syntax
- Unlimited page revisions
- Recent changes
- Colored side by side diff support
- Uploading and embedding of images and other media
- Customizable Interwiki links
- Optional CamelCase support
- Content can be categorized in namespaces, easily browsable through an automatic index
- Straightforward configuration
High Usability
- Section Editing allows editing of small parts of a page
- Toolbar and accesskeys make editing easy for both beginners and professionals
- Easy navigation through breadcrumbs
- Automatic table of contents generation
- Locking to avoid edit conflicts
- Automatic save to avoid content lost during editing
- Access Control and Anti-Spam Measures
- Simple support for read-only pages
Extended Access Control Lists
- Spam blacklist
- Delayed Indexing
- Mail address obfuscation and rel=nofollow support
International
- Support for over 50 languages
- Full UTF-8 support
- Romanization support for nicer URLs
- Optional automatic plural linking for English wikis
Fast
- Index-based fast full-text search
- Page caching for quicker rendering
- Ajax-enhanced Interface
Extensible
- Layout customizable through templates (over 80 already available)
- Features can be extended through plugins (over 900 already available)
- Great support from the community if you ever need help
Easy Integration
- No database required, it uses plain text files
- Syndication of recent changes as RSS or ATOM feeds
- Authentication Backends for integrating with LDAP, MySQL, Postgres, and others
- Open Source and well-documented source code…
- and many more…
Prerequisites
- Kubernetes 1.4+ with Beta APIs enabled
- PV provisioner support in the underlying infrastructure
Use Cases
DokuWiki Hackfest London 2012 Wikis are quick to update and new pages are easily added. Designed for collaboration while maintaining a history of every change, DokuWiki could be used as
- Corporate Knowledge Base
- Private notebook
- Software manual
- Project workspace
- CMS – intranet
Customizing DokuWiki
We support customization on all levels of expertise. From easy configuration via the admin interface through downloading of templates and plugins to developing your own extensions.
- Configuration
- Plugins
- Templates (aka. skins/themes)
What makes DokuWiki so great for Documentation?
Wikis are good for documentation
- Easy to start: you can share unfinished content early, exposed to many eyes
- Have a simple, consistent page layout
- Easy to create and maintain structured, up-to-date documents:
- collaborative
- easy to access through the web, with simple login or without any login
- easy to modify, no need to know HTML
- easy to link pages
- easy to create simple and consistent pages
- easy to search
- easy to extend with external pages.
- Don’t need to go to another colleague or IT dept to update the documentation = low resistance to keeping documentation up to date.
Tips and Tricks for Dokuwiki
This is the place to collect all your Tips and Tricks for DokuWiki Usage.
❗ Steps for reorganization:
Add a description to each page, and categorize within this page. Almost done.
Review external links to remove broken ones, maybe integrate the external link to have all content on dokuwiki.org
If possible please rewrite content, and remove old things.
NOTE to translators: When updating your tips page, please use the index button to see what pages are within your locale: tips namespace. And please do include them into the tips page. Thank you.
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