ikiwiki
Wiki compiler that builds wiki pages into a static website, storing page history in a revision control system, with blogging support.
ikiwiki is a wiki compiler written in Perl. It converts wiki pages into HTML pages that form a static website, and it supports blogging. Pages are plain files, and page history is kept in a revision control system such as Subversion or git when one is used, so a page can be changed with a text editor and committed. The setup tutorial covers installing and creating a wiki. Joey and many contributors develop the project.
Worth knowing
Editing pages in a web browser and the other optional wiki features need CGI. A host that serves only static files gets the built site without them.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- Joey1
Rendering and deploy
- Runs as
- Static files, Per request4
- Rendering
- Static output4
- Install with
- apt-get install ikiwiki on Debian and Ubuntu25
Releases
Adoption
- Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
- 78
Sources
- 2026-10-23: links, Maintainer
ikiwiki.info/ - 2026-10-23: links, Install with
ikiwiki.info/download/ - 2026-10-23: links, Admin interface
ikiwiki.info/setup/ - 2026-10-23: Categories, Multilingual, Rendering, Runs as
ikiwiki.info/features/ - 2026-10-23: Runtime, Install with
ikiwiki.info/install/ - 2026-10-23: License, License model
ikiwiki.info/freesoftware/ - 2026-10-23: Current major version, Last release
ikiwiki.info/news/ - 2026-10-25: Sites using it (HTTP Archive)
cdn.httparchive.org/v1/technologies