{"id":696,"date":"2007-01-15T23:07:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-15T21:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rare-it.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/01\/15\/hiki\/"},"modified":"2013-07-24T02:55:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T00:55:42","slug":"hiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2007\/01\/hiki\/","title":{"rendered":"hiki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I don&#8217;t use Windows as my server OS anymore, I was looking for a replacement of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flexwiki.com\/\">FlexWiki<\/a>, which is a wiki written in ASP.NET. Since I want to learn some Ruby, I looked around for a wiki written in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruby-lang.org\/en\/\">Ruby<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/hikiwiki.org\/en\/\">Hiki<\/a> is what I have found. It&#8217;s very simple to install, the website even gives instructions on how to enable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruby-lang.org\/\">Ruby<\/a> pages in Apache. But I already did that (the CGI and the mod_ruby way).<\/p>\n<p>For now there&#8217;s only the standard FrontPage (in Japanese), but I will gradually fill it with real (English) content.<\/p>\n<p>Hiki does not use a database, but flatfiles instead. That explains the easy installation: download, unpack, modify data-path in the config file, run. Hiki is a try-out for now. My previous wiki suffered from a lot of spam. The open nature of a wiki allowed to modify pages anonymously, and so spammers used it to put links to their sites (with all sorts of NSFW content). If hiki can&#8217;t be protected enough, and spammers find their way to it, I will shut it down or replace it with something more secure (and perhaps not Ruby).<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong>: just enable the plugin &#8220;edit_user.rb&#8221; and you can create users and disable anonymous edits. So I did.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I don&#8217;t use Windows as my server OS anymore, I was looking for a replacement of FlexWiki, which is a wiki written in ASP.NET. Since I want to learn some Ruby, I looked around for a wiki written in Ruby. Hiki is what I have found. It&#8217;s very simple to install, the website even <a href='https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/2007\/01\/hiki\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1485,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/1485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.switchbl8.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}