Newbie installation

I do research in mathematics and like the idea of getting organised. Foswiki looks fantastic and I would like to try it out.

I want to start with a wiki for my personal use only. The web site says this is one of your use cases but the documentation seems aimed at businesses with a professional administrator. I have never set up a web server so this is daunting.

1. Is Foswiki overkill for me and should I be looking elsewhere? e.g. Zim

LaTeX support is essential. I also use JabRef, Zotero and Jupyter notebooks (running a sagemath kernel)

I have two System 76 laptops with Ubuntu. I can (mostly) follow installation instructions even if my understanding is limited.

2. How do I get started? Which page of installation do I follow?

-- BruceWestbury - 13 Oct 2019

I just found this which seems like a good start https://askubuntu.com/questions/389399/

-- BruceWestbury - 13 Oct 2019

Not an official docker image but if you have docker installed (or want to install it take a look at: https://github.com/timlegge/docker-foswiki

It will give you a working install that you can access at http://localhost

You will need to reset the Configure password:

1. sudo docker exec -it docker-foswiki /bin/sh
2. cd /var/www/foswiki/
3. sudo -u www-data tools/configure -save -set {Password}='MyPassword'

This will cut out a lot of the setup work.

-- TimothyLegge - 13 Oct 2019

I have got to the point where I can connect to FosWiki. However I have not been able to login. Your 3. gives

/var/www/foswiki # sudo -u www-data tools/configure -save -set {Password}='XXX' /bin/sh: sudo: not found

-- BruceWestbury - 19 Oct 2019

remove the sudo part:

1. sudo docker exec -it docker-foswiki /bin/sh
2. cd /var/www/foswiki/
3. tools/configure -save -set {Password}='MyPassword'

-- TimothyLegge - 22 Oct 2019

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