My Go To for Storing all Types of Information is DokuWiki Docker Container

I love DokuWiki. It is an easy to use text-based wiki. It is my go-to place to store information about programs that I work on, movies and TV shows that I watch, books that I read, and so on. The information for this post was taken from a dokuwiki page.

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Here’s the docker-compose.yml:

version: '3'
services:
  dokuwiki:
    container_name: dokuwiki
    image: php:8.2-apache-bookworm
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - dokuwiki
    ports:
      - '8889:80'
    volumes:
      - ./html:/var/www/html

networks:
  dokuwiki:

NOTE: php:8.2-apache-bookworm was changed from php:7-apache-bullseye. The latest version of dokuwiki requires PHP 8.2.

See https://loganmarchione.com/2022/03/the-best-way-to-run-dokuwiki-in-docker/ for installation instructions.

• Exec into the container.

docker exec -it dokuwiki /bin/bash

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• Download DokuWiki.

cd /var/www/html
curl --remote-name https://download.dokuwiki.org/src/dokuwiki/dokuwiki-stable.tgz
tar -xzvf dokuwiki-stable.tgz --strip-components=1
rm dokuwiki-stable.tgz
chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/

• Go to http://your_docker_server_IP:8889/install.php and the DokuWiki install page displays. Make sure to create and admin account.

These Dokuwiki extension plugins that I have installed:

• Bookcreator Plugin by Gerrit Uitslag (previous: Luigi Micco) 2024–02–07 — Allow to make a book (PDF, ODT, HTML or text) from selected pages
• dw2markdown plugin by i-net software 2025–11–04 — Render a DW page to Markdown
• Dw2Pdf plugin by Andreas Gohr and Luigi Micco 2023–11–25 — DokuWiki to PDF converter
• EditTable plugin by Andreas Gohr 2023–01–14 — Provide a custom editor for tables
• PDF-Tools for dw2pdf by Gero Gothe 2021–11–11 — Additional features for PDF-Generation (requires dw2pdf)

Originally published at http://hypot2noose.blogspot.com on March 23, 2026.