Appliance category: 
Perl
Content management
Wiki

Foswiki

Enterprise Wiki Platform

Foswiki is a structured wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform, knowledge or document management system, a knowledge base, or team portal. Users can create wiki applications using the Foswiki Markup Language, and developers can extend its functionality with plugins.

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

  • Foswiki configurations:
    • Installed from upstream source code to /var/www/foswiki.
    • Configured cron jobs (daily maintenance, hourly stats, 15min notifications).
    • Preconfigured mail settings.

      Security note: Updates to Foswiki may require supervision so they ARE NOT configured to install automatically. See Foswiki documentation for upgrading.

      We also recommend subscribing to the 'foswiki-announce' mailing list to receive secruity announements in your inbox.

  • SSL support out of the box.
  • Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery).
  • Webmin modules for configuring Apache2 and Postfix.

WebMasterEmail is configured in /etc/foswiki/LocalSite.cfg

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Usage details & Logging in for Administration

No default passwords: For security reasons there are no default passwords. All passwords are set at system initialization time.

Ignore SSL browser warning: browsers don't like self-signed SSL certificates, but this is the only kind that can be generated automatically. If you have a domain configured, then via Confconsole Advanced menu, you can generate free Let's Encypt SSL/TLS certificates.

Web - point your browser at either:

  1. http://12.34.56.789/ - not encrypted so no browser warning
  2. https://12.34.56.789/ - encrypted with self-signed SSL certificate

Note: some appliances auto direct http to https.

Username for foswiki:

Login as username AdminUser

Username for OS system administration:

Login as root except on AWS marketplace which uses username admin.

  1. Point your browser to:
  2. Login with SSH client: 
    ssh root@12.34.56.789

    Special case for AWS marketplace:

    ssh admin@12.34.56.789

* Replace 12.34.56.789 with a valid IP or hostname.