DokuWiki System Requirements

For running your own copy of DokuWiki you will need the following three:

  1. Webserver with PHP support
    • Apache is preferred, but many others are reported to work fine
  2. PHP 4.3.3 and higher. Because of some security issues PHP 4.3.10 or higher is strictly recommended. 1) (PHP 5 should be fine.)
    • Enabling short open tags shouldn't be needed anymore 2)
    • PHP's GD or use with libGD 2 (a graphics library) is recommended but not needed
    • DokuWiki should work in PHP's Safe Mode, depending on your hosting configuration you may need to use the safemodehack option
    • DokuWiki is designed to run with PHP's Option register_globals set to off.
    • If you want DokuWiki to email registration confirmation to new users, PHP needs to be correctly configured to send mails. (see: mail)
  3. A decent web browser (see compatibility list)
1) RedHat Enterprise Linux has backported these security fixes into earlier versions: php-4.3.2-30 for RHEL V3, php-4.3.9-3.12 for RHEL V4
2) if you encounter problems file a bugreport