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This "blog" is really just a scratchpad of mine. There is not much of general interest here. Most of the content is scribbled down "live" as I discover things I want to remember. I rarely go back to correct mistakes in older entries. You have been warned :)

2004-08-06

OpenWiki

I found OpenWiki, a very lightweight and easy-to-install wiki for IIS+ASP.  The installation steps, using an MS Access database as the back end, are:

  1. Download the latest distribution.
  2. Copy data\OpenWikiDist.mdb to some location and rename it to something like MyWiki.mdb.
  3. Publish the owbase directory (or a copy thereof) in IIS.
  4. Edit owbase\ow.asp to include the following configuration directives:
    OPENWIKI_DB = "Driver={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=h:\wherever\MyWiki.mdb"
    OPENWIKI_DB_SYNTAX = DB_ACCESS
    MSXML_VERSION = 4
    OPENWIKI_TITLE = "My Wiki"
    OPENWIKI_FRONTPAGE = "FrontPage"

That's it!  All of the configuration directives can be found in owbase\ow\owconfig_default.asp.

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