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B<You have successfully installed L<PodWiki|http://www.daemon.de/PodWiki> on your server - congratulations!>

I<PodWiki is a wiki software written in perl for advanced users while providing many features suitable for the average user. PodWiki is driven by L<POD|PerlPod>, which is the standard markup of L<perlmodule documentation|http://perldoc.perl.org/perlpod.html>. It is fully customizable, PodWiki always loads a standard auto-load page from which the whole stuff (as headers, content, stylesheet and so forth) can be included - which makes it possible to build a wiki site in any design you like.>

If a page is not written in POD, PodWiki loads the default wiki markup interpreter, which can of course be configured. By default L<Creole 0.3|http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole0.3> is the standard markup. Beside Creole PodWiki understands L<TWiki|PodWikiFormatterTWiki>, L<TikiWiki|PodWikiFormatterTiki>, L<WikiShorthand>. You can also include html, plain text and even perl code to PodWiki pages.

PodWiki provides authentication and authorization features. Pages can be read and/or write protected for a user or a whole group. You can also make the whole site read-only, this way it looks for outside visitors like any website not like a wiki.

From the administration panel you can create attribute categories and attributes which can be assigned to wiki pages.

One primary focus of development was to maintain an installation as simple as possible. Therefore it comes with all required perl modules and the install procedure is very easy (configure && make install - that's it!).

Data will be stored on disk and versioned using RCS, which is available on almost every unix system these days.

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Once you have L<logged in|intern:login>, go to the L<admin panel|TPL_PlainAdmin> and edit the template files to suit the site look to your needs. Create attributes, groups and users. Start to learn creating and writing PodWiki pages in the L<SandBox>.

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