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| I started my [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki|dokuwiki]] adventures like 2 or 3 weeks ago hosting things in some shared space at [[https://www.dreamhost.com/|Dreamhost]]. I honestly prefer having my instance on a shared host and not hosting this myself. The server/webserver/php setup alone can get pretty demanding on my personal time although these days it was pretty much "Spin up [[https://www.debian.org/|Debian]] VM, configure initial server, install Apache and php, then download and tar the [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki|dokuwiki]] packaged from their download page. The real headache comes in setting [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki|dokuwiki]] server permissions and not granting to much access to the rest of the world. I am still not 100% sure I did it right and wouldn't be surprised if some bot finds this instance and spams the hell out of the backend. | I started my [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki|dokuwiki]] adventures like 2 or 3 weeks ago hosting things in some shared space at [[https://www.dreamhost.com/|Dreamhost]]. I prefer having my instance on a shared host and not hosting this myself. The server/webserver/php setup alone can get pretty demanding on my personal time although these days it was pretty much "Spin up [[https://www.debian.org/|Debian]] VM, configure initial server, install Apache and php, then download and tar the [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki|dokuwiki]] packaged from their download page. The real headache comes in setting [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki|dokuwiki]] server permissions and not granting to much access to the rest of the world. I am still not 100% sure I did it right and wouldn't be surprised if some bot finds this instance and spams the hell out of the backend. |
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| Well as I started adding [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugins|plugins]] for dokuwiki I got to the point of loading a plugin I loved, and used years ago called [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:graphviz|Graphviz]]. [[https://graphviz.org|Graphviz]] is open-source graph visualization software and includes a language called dot built by AT&T Labs this whole package was used to automate large network/telco drawings. On the shared hosting provider, the plugin constantly broke for me. I wracked my brain out for a day or two and it dawned on me that the hosting provider probably wouldn't allow a web/php script to call back and run an executable without some special permissions. I spent another day trying to figure out a work around with no luck. | Well as I started adding [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugins|plugins]] for dokuwiki I got to the point of loading a plugin I loved, and used years ago called [[https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:graphviz|Graphviz]]. [[https://graphviz.org|Graphviz]] is open-source graph visualization software and includes a language called dot built by AT&T Labs this whole package was used to automate large network/telco drawings. On the shared hosting provider, the plugin constantly broke for me. I wracked my brain out for a day or two and it dawned on me that the hosting provider probably wouldn't allow a web/php script to call back and run an executable without some special permissions. I spent another day trying to figure out a work around with no luck. |
