> I haven't got docuwiki installed, what is the actual fle structure > under the wiki? Is there hierarchical directory based structure or is it > some sort of flat file system?> > Perhaps there's a doc explaining this, a url reply is fine by me.
I would refer you to: http://www.dokuwiki.org/pagename http://www.dokuwiki.org/faq:database
Thanks for the replies and the pointer to the web pages. I guess I could search for the rpms and install them on a linux box somewhere but I'm doing a bit of background research for a solaris installation which will probably take a bit more work for each installation.
Just as an aside on the original topic, the decision to install on a file system vs in a DB is a fairly important one depending on whether you are offering 24/7 services to a larger organization or just a basic wiki for a smaller work group. As one of the links above states "A DBMS can make it easier to cross the single server threshold. At its simplest, the DBMS is placed on one box and the web server / application component on another.Its arguable that DokuWiki could accomplish something similar by using NFS mounts to allow multiple locally remote (i.e. LAN connected) servers to access the wiki data directory tree.". NFS could be used but then you have a single source of failure as you do with most file systems. With a clustered backend DB you can have multiple front ends and a fault tolerant backend.
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