This guide walks through deploying XWiki 17.10.8 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 with Apache Tomcat and PostgreSQL. Total setup time: ~45 minutes. Requires minimum 8GB RAM and 4 vCPUs for acceptable performance.
If you're looking to deploy a self-hosted wiki solution with enterprise-grade features, XWiki is an excellent choice. Unlike some alternatives, it offers powerful permission management, structured data, and extensibility through extensions. However, the on-premises setup can be intimidating due to multiple moving parts.
This guide details setting up XWiki 17 on Red Hat Linux Server 10.2 with 16GB RAM and 4 vCPUs. I initially validated these steps in a Mac-hosted VM before deploying them to my production environment on a Dell OptiPlex 7050 Micro.
What You'll Need
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