Suggest a free Wiki for labbing?

I've asked in the past about recommendations for work/study notes. I'm currently using OneNote and stopped using scattered plain text files. I still need to remind myself to put more info down, but it's working so far.

I want to eventually build up my home lab a bit, and instead of general knowledge from work/studying, I want to document my home lab a bit. I'm thinking of using a wiki.

Does anyone have suggestions for a free (preferably open source) wiki product I could use? It'd be awesome if I could self-host it on a Linux instance.

Thanks!

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chappys4life

Have you looked at Confluence https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence ? Its not a straight wiki but does a lot. The you host on a server is $10. I used it for a bit then went back to OneNote.

DoubleNNs

To be honest, I'm looking for something almost exactly like Confluence.. but free. haha

kohr-ah

Look up dokuwiki or mediawiki. I use dokuwiki at home and we use mediawiki at work. When I setup both they were very straight forward and easy and it looks like wikipedia.

(Both are free)

chappys4life

DoubleNNs wrote: »

To be honest, I'm looking for something almost exactly like Confluence.. but free. haha

Its $10 and does exactly what you want? Why not just buy it?

gkca

I use MediaWiki for home lab and we use it at work as well, very easy to use and configure.

DoubleNNs

chappys4life wrote: »

Its $10 and does exactly what you want? Why not just buy it?

I've come a very long way since I joined this forum. Unfortunately, I'm still at a place in my career (and personal life) where I need to be budget conscious. Especially since this is just for labbing, I'd rather explore free/open-souce alternatives before just shelling out the cash.
If I don't at least do my due diligence, my labbing and studying fees would quickly start to add up to an unaffordable amount.

Confluence specifically, instead of being a 1-time $10 fee, is a recurring $10 a month membership + any hosting fees (hardware/cloud costs, power, etc). Also I'm most likely going to be the only one viewing the content (not collaborative).

paul78

I currently use MoinMoin at home but I've been thinking about switching to MediaWiki. It just hasn't been a priority.

If you are looking for a quick and easy install - try the Turnkey Linux build:

https://www.turnkeylinux.org/moinmoin
https://www.turnkeylinux.org/mediawiki

Kinet1c

DoubleNNs wrote: »

I've come a very long way since I joined this forum. Unfortunately, I'm still at a place in my career (and personal life) where I need to be budget conscious. Especially since this is just for labbing, I'd rather explore free/open-souce alternatives before just shelling out the cash.
If I don't at least do my due diligence, my labbing and studying fees would quickly start to add up to an unaffordable amount.

Confluence specifically, instead of being a 1-time $10 fee, is a recurring $10 a month membership + any hosting fees (hardware/cloud costs, power, etc). Also I'm most likely going to be the only one viewing the content (not collaborative).

If you host it, it's $10 as a once off payment. It's well worth it and will look good on your resume as knowing to set it up as well as utilise it. We use it in work and there's no way I'd go back to wikis. You don't need to host it online either, just host it in a vm.

jibbajabba

Was thinking the same and ended up just using wordpress : open902.com

I am not a blogger, but wanted to do the same, share installation guides etc.

Kinet1c wrote: »

It's well worth it and will look good on your resume as knowing to set it up as well as utilise it. .

For what sort of jobs - Never worked in a company where that was even used. Sharepoint on the other hand is used quite often ..

chappys4life

gkca wrote: »

I use MediaWiki for home lab and we use it at work as well, very easy to use and configure.

If you host it yourself it is a flat $10. You can even run it on your own laptop as it is that lightweight. I understand being cost conscious but if it does everything you want for $10 as one time fee I see it as worth it.

I used it but in the end I used OneNote as its free and syncs online easily.

DoubleNNs

Awesome!! I guess I read the pricing details wrong. If it's a one-time flat fee of $10 if i host it myself, I'd definitely, w/o a doubt go w/ Confluence. Might even get it set up this weekend.

Thanks a lot you guys!