Administrator's Guide

Everything you want to know about administrating XWiki, from Installation to backups and more.

Admin Topics

Installation

Learn how to install XWiki on your machine or upgrade an existing installation.

Upgrade

Learn how to upgrade your XWiki installation to keep it up-to-date.

Configuration

Learn how to configure and tune XWiki in various ways.

Backup/Restore

Learn how to backup and restore your wiki.

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

Import/Export

Import and Export pages to and from your wikis.

Security

Tune the configuration to secure your wiki.

Access Rights

Define which users should be allowed to view and interact with your wiki.

User Management

Add, Edit, Delete and manage users.

Group Management

Add, Edit, Delete and manage groups.

Skins

Learn how to use a different skin and even how to create a complete new one.

Encoding

Learn how to configure XWiki for UTF-8 or any other non-default encoding.

Authentication

Configure XWiki's authentication mechanism (Database, LDAP, custom implementation, etc).

Logging

Configure XWiki's logging system.

Database Administration

Administer your XWiki database.

Attachments

Configure how attachments are stored, whether version history will be kept and set size limits.

Performance Tuning

Improve your wiki's performance.

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