personal wiki

Imagine storing and editing your to-do lists, bookmarks, snippets of text, project notes, reference material, images from the web or anything you wanted on your home computer from anywhere just using a web browser - no disks, thumb drives, text editors, or file transfers required. This is possible with a personal wiki.

A wiki is an editable web site, where any number of pages can be added and the text of those pages edited right inside your web browser.

To setup ur personal wiki:

• Install Ruby.[...]
• Install Instiki.[...]
• Run Instiki.

To change into the Instiki directory

cd \instiki\

Then type to start the Instiki server

ruby instiki

This is what your output should look like:

C:\instiki>ruby instiki
=> Starting Instiki on http://0.0.0.0:2500
=> Data files are stored in C:/instiki/storage/2500
[2005-09-16 12:45:20] INFO  WEBrick 1.3.1
[2005-09-16 12:45:20] INFO  ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32]
[2005-09-16 12:45:20] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=4008 port=2500

Now, leave that window open and switch to your web browser, and go to http://localhost:2500/ to begin Instiki setup. Give your new wiki a name and a password.

• Password your Instiki web.
• Access your personal wiki from anywhere.

If your computer is not behind a router or firewall, you can now read and write to your personal wiki from any Internet-connected computer by typing your home computer's IP address or domain name plus :2500 into a web browser's address bar, like
http://123.456.789.0:2500
or
http://mycomputer.homeip.net:2500

That extra 2500 addresses Instiki, which runs on port 2500, Ruby's default port.

[2005-09-16 12:45:20] INFO  WEBrick::HTTPServer#start: pid=4008 port=2500