A FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE was installed on a PCEngines box to host a DokuWiki server.

Install DokuWiki and Apache.

sudo pkg install dokuwiki-php82
sudo pkg install apache24

Edit the config file of system environment (for booting next time) for Apache (2.4): add in /etc/rc.conf

apache24_enable="YES"

comment out/edit /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf

#DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/apache24/data"
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/dokuwiki"

<Directory "/usr/local/www/dokuwiki">
      Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
      DirectoryIndex index.php
      AllowOverride None
      Require all granted
</Directory>

Install PHP module

sudo pkg install mod_php82

check if the LoadModule line was added

cat /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf | grep php

should output

LoadModule php_module         libexec/apache24/libphp.so

add in /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf

<IfModule php_module>
        DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
        AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
        AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
</IfModule>

change the owner of conf and data in /usr/local/www/dokuwiki/ to the web server.

sudo chown -R www:www /usr/local/www/dokuwiki/conf
sudo chown -R www:www /usr/local/www/dokuwiki/data

restart FreeBSD

For a initial config, open wiki install.php in browser

http://192.168.178.65/install.php

enter data, for example

Wiki Name: nplab
Superuser: admin
E-Mail: timo.voelker@fh-muenster.de
Initial ACL policy: Closed Wiki
license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International

after that /usr/local/www/dokuwiki/conf/local.php contains the configuration

It is recommended to separate config and binaries from DokuWiki website files. Create a directory outside of the installation path

sudo mkdir -p /var/dokuwiki/www

move data and conf into /var/dokuwiki/www. Move bin directory into /var/dokuwiki

sudo mv /usr/local/www/dokuwiki/data /var/dokuwiki/www/
sudo mv /usr/local/www/dokuwiki/conf /var/dokuwiki/www/
sudo mv /usr/local/www/dokuwiki/bin /var/dokuwiki/

It is important that the www user (the user that runs apache) has access to these files –> set owner of /var/dokuwiki/www to www

sudo chown -R www:www /var/dokuwiki/www

DokuWiki needs to know where to find these files. Create inc/preload.php

sudo vi /usr/local/www/dokuwiki/inc/preload.php

and add

<?php
// DO NOT use a closing php tag. This causes a problem with the feeds,
// among other things. For more information on this issue, please see:w
// http://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:coding_style#php_closing_tags
define('DOKU_CONF','/var/dokuwiki/www/conf/');

add in /var/dokuwiki/www/conf/local.php

$conf['savedir'] = '/var/dokuwiki/www/data';

The server needs a certificate to provide https access. If a certificate in a .p12 file format exist, convert it into a .pem file.

openssl pkcs12 -in certificate.p12 -out certificate.pem -nodes

Copy the .pem file in a .crt and .key file

cp certificate.pem certificate.crt
cp certificate.pem certificate.key

The .crt file should contain the public certificate only. Edit the file and remove everything except the following Block.

-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...
-----END CERTIFICATE-----

The .key file should contain the private key only. Edit the file and remove everything except the following Block.

-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----
...
-----END PRIVATE KEY-----

Copy both files to /usr/local/etc/apache24/ssl/

mkdir /usr/local/etc/apache24/ssl
cp certificate.crt /usr/local/etc/apache24/ssl/
cp certificate.key /usr/local/etc/apache24/ssl/

Configure apache for SSL access. In /usr/local/etc/apache24/httpd.conf

Uncomment the line

LoadModule ssl_module libexec/apache24/mod_ssl.so

Add

<IfModule ssl_module>
SSLRandomSeed startup builtin
SSLRandomSeed connect builtin
</IfModule>

and add

ServerName nplab.fh-muenster.de:443
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile "/usr/local/etc/apache24/ssl/certificate.crt"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "/usr/local/etc/apache24/ssl/certificate.key"

To apply these changes, restart Apache serivce

sudo service apache24 restart

On error, check /var/log/httpd-error.log for log messages.

For a automatic backup, the DokuWiki files are compressed in a tar.gz archive and copied to another server (bsd19.fh-muenster.de (console)). This is done by a separate user named wikibackup.

Create user wikibackup on source and destination system (nplab.fh-muenster.de and bsd19.fh-muenster.de).

adduser

• Username: wikibackup
• Do not add the user in any group
• Shell: nologin
• Use password-based authentication?: no

wikibackup@nplab.fh-muenster.de needs to ssh to bsd19.fh-muenster.de without entering a password. On nplab.fh-muenster.de, switch to user wikibackup and crea te SSH keys.

sudo su - wikibackup
ssh-keygen

Copy the content of ~/.ssh.id_rsa.pub into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on wikibackup@bsd19.fh-muenster.de. After that, on nplab.fh-muenster.de as wikibackup

ssh bsd19.fh-muenster.de

should work without entering a password.

Next step is to create the script that performs the backup and copies the backup file to bsd19.fh-muenster.de. The following script (~/backup.sh) is used.

#!/bin/sh
  
echo $(date)

dayOfYear=$(date +%j)
file=~/wiki-$dayOfYear.tar.gz

echo backup wiki to $file
tar -czf $file -C /var/dokuwiki/ --exclude www/data/cache --exclude www/data/index --exclude www/data/locks --exclude www/data/tmp --exclude www/data/dont-pa
nic-if\* www

echo copy to bsd19 and delete local file
scp $file bsd19.fh-muenster.de:~/
rm $file

echo done

To start the script daily, create a cron job. On nplab.fh-muenster.de as wikibackup, run

crontab -e

and add

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
# Order of crontab fields
# minute        hour    mday    month   wday    command
  0             22      *       *       *       /bin/sh /usr/home/wikibackup/backup.sh > /usr/home/wikibackup/backup.log 2>&1