Moving your quick wiki

Little by little our VQWiki test installation become our VQWiki production environment; it is not enough for some project management activities, but it's great as a collaborative repository.

Should you decide to move the directory in which you store the files (we did), it is enough to modify the filesystem directory in the admin page; this creates a new folder in the specified position, in which you can copy your existing files. As an alternative, you can modify the homeDir parameter in the vqwiki.properties file located in the WEB-INF/classes folder.

In the same folder you can find the ApplicationResources.properties file, in which you can give your virtual wikis a friendly name.

A Very Quick Wiki

Yesterday I read about JUG Milano's intentions to get more and more involved in the VQWiki project. As I've been searching for quite a time for the easiest of Wikis to just drop in my servlet container and start to edit, I decided to give it a try.

As a matter of fact setting up VQWiki is really straightforward: download zip, unzip, upload war and boom you're it. I haven't even started to scratch the surface, but what I've seen so far serves my purpose of having a site for the project we've just started - the simplest thing that could possibily work... well it works!

If you're a newbie with Wikis and want to experiment, VQWiki is a really nice start.