On Friday 11 September 2009 17:42:32 Les Mikesell wrote:
If you have a typical firewalled LAN with private addresses, just run the wiki there instead of on a machine that can be accessed from the internet and you won't have to worry about it. Wiki's are most useful if you can make them easily accessible to everyone who might use the information and a LAN-only connection may make it possible to avoid any other restrictions. If you need an internet-facing wiki, you have to be much more careful, though. Since the point is to allow easy modification and uploads they are very likely targets for vulnerabilities and you have to keep the code up to date.
Hi, Les. Yes, I understand that. I don't have any need for that, so I'm not prepared to go to those lengths. I'll keep it within the LAN if I do it at all.
The next step is to talk to the people who control the 'real' site, and see whether they think this could be helpful or not.
Anne