Administrator's Guide

Version 19.6 by Vincent Massol on 2015/04/01

Everything you want to know about administrating XWiki, from Installation to backups and more.

Admin Topics

Installation
Learn how to install XWiki on your machine or upgrade an existing installation.
Upgrade
Learn how to upgrade your XWiki installation to keep it up-to-date.
Configuration
Learn how to configure and tune XWiki in various ways.
Backup/Restore
Learn how to backup and restore your wiki.
Multi Tenancy
Learn how you can have multiple wikis running on the same XWiki instance (i.e. same JVM) for great scalability.
Access a wiki
Learn the different ways to target a wiki when you have more than one wiki in your instance.
Applications installation into wiki-farm
Learn the peculiarities of application installation on wiki-farm
Import/Export
Import and Export pages to and from your wikis.
Security
Tune the configuration to secure your wiki.
Access Rights
Define which users should be allowed to view and interact with your wiki.
User Management
Add, Edit, Delete and manage users.
Group Management
Add, Edit, Delete and manage groups.
Skins
Learn how to use a different skin and even how to create a complete new one.
Encoding
Learn how to configure XWiki for UTF-8 or any other non-default encoding.
Authentication
Configure XWiki's authentication mechanism (Database, LDAP, custom implementation, etc).
Logging
Configure XWiki's logging system.
Database Administration
Administer your XWiki database.
Attachments
Configure how attachments are stored, whether version history will be kept and set size limits.
Performance Tuning
Improve your wiki's performance.
Short URLs
Learn how to configure the XWiki URL scheme to generate short URLs.
Clustering
You can run multiple instances of XWiki on the same database to be able to do load balancing. Here's how to do it.
Monitoring
Monitor a running instance using JMX
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