FosWiki Cloud Hosting

Quick, Simple, and Scalable FosWiki Cloud Hosting

What is FosWiki Cloud Hosting?

FosWiki Cloud hosting is a service offered by Steadfast Networks to its Cloud Platform customers that grants them access to a wiki system lauded for ease-of-use (non-technical users find it extremely approachable) and the way in which it stores content in a structured fashion. Called the next generation of enterprise collaboration suites, FosWiki lets you store, collect, and re-use enterprise information, and anyone can create Web 2.0 applications such as mashups and social interaction tools with ease. Some of the best features of FosWiki include:

• Allows you to share knowledge, edit pages, and take notes collaboratively
• Add email addresses to a wiki page – whenever a change is made, those users will receive a notification
• The ability to accept structured content submissions – all you have to do is add forms to your wiki pages
• Best in class WYSIWYG text editor – with no need to learn special markup syntax, non-technical users can simply cut and paste the content from outside sites or just reference other pages in the wiki page
• Best in class security – FosWiki is incredibly safe to us, even protecting against Cross-Site Request Forgery
• Easily attach files – files can be attached to any wiki page, and you’ll have the ability to see them in the body of the page or by opening a separate attachment
• Flexible access controls – allow you to protect pages
• Extract data – by using FosWiki’s advanced search tool
• Tagged data and meta-data – can be associated with specific pages for clear and easy organization
• Display data in different formats – XML, graphical, tabular
• Keep track of all changes – with documents that are versioned and attachments that include revision history
• Version control – with detailed versions and revision history, you can easily fix unintended changes
• Customize your content display – view the web and print things the way you want them to look
• Make your own applications – with FosWiki, you can use Excel-like macros (built-in or from extensions) to create your own bug trackers, inventory systems, to-do lists, status boards, employee handbooks, and more
• Hundreds of extensions – the powerful plugin API has led to an extremely active community
• Multi-language support – localized interfaces are available in 20 languages
• Modern architecture – FosWiki supports httpd stand alone, modperl, fastcgi, and load balancing

The ultimate goal of FosWiki is to help users develop a culture intent on sharing and updating information to reduce bottlenecking and overhead costs.How Can You Get FosWiki Cloud Hosting from Steadfast Networks?

Through our ongoing relationship with Jumpbox, we offer FosWiki Cloud hosting to our Cloud Platform users, as well as a wide array of other useful open source software.

All Cloud users need to do to use FosWiki is select the FosWiki JumpBox template. To do this, go to Operating System and select Ubuntu, then choose JumpBox FosWiki. You’ll be able to start using this great open source software without any complex setup and installation processes.

System Requirements for FosWiki Cloud Hosting

FosWiki.org has a comprehensive list of system requirements for servers, Perl modules, and other kinds of specific distributions here, but below are the most basic necessities:

Perl 5.8.8 or higher
RCS 5.7 or higher (including GNU diff) – optional
GNU diff 2.7+ – required when not using the all-Perl RcsLite
Cron/scheduler – Unix: cron,Windows: cron equivalents
Other external programs – fgrep, egrep
Web server – Apache is preferred, but information on other servers can be found at \o "'Support.InstallingOnSpecificPlatforms' on foswiki.org" Foswiki:Support.InstallingOnSpecificPlatforms.

Tips, Tricks, and Documentation

Documentation for FosWiki – including presentations, tutorials, and guides – can be found on the product homepage. The site even offers Best Practice Tips.

FosWiki Tutorial: