Administrator Guide
Last modified by Eduard Moraru on 2020/07/20
Installation
Learn how to install XWiki on your machine or upgrade an existing installation.
Configuration
Learn how to configure and tune XWiki in various ways.
Upgrade
Learn how to upgrade your XWiki installation to keep it up-to-date.
Main Topics
Configure XWiki's authentication mechanism (Database, LDAP, custom implementation, etc).
Add, Edit, Delete and manage users.
Define which users should be allowed to view and interact with your wiki.
Import and Export pages to and from your wikis.
Learn how to use a different skin and even how to create a complete new one.
Learn how to backup and restore your wiki.
Administer your XWiki database.
Improve your wiki's performance.
Tune the configuration to secure your wiki.
Other Topics
- Multi Tenancy
- Learn how you can have multiple wikis running on the same XWiki instance (i.e. same JVM) for great scalability.
- Access a wiki
- Learn the different ways to target a wiki when you have more than one wiki in your instance.
- Applications installation into wiki-farm
- Learn the peculiarities of application installation on wiki-farm
- Group Management
- Add, Edit, Delete and manage groups.
- Encoding
- Learn how to configure XWiki for UTF-8 or any other non-default encoding.
- Logging
- Configure XWiki's logging system.
- Attachments
- Configure how attachments are stored, whether version history will be kept and set size limits.
- Short URLs
- Learn how to configure the XWiki URL scheme to generate short URLs.
- Clustering
- You can run multiple instances of XWiki on the same database to be able to do load balancing. Here's how to do it.
- Monitoring
- Monitor a running instance using JMX
- AntiSpam Techniques
- Various strategies and tools to fight spam in public XWiki instances
