The local installation on a Linux machine (Laptop Acer Extensa 7630EZ) with apache2 succeeded at once.
But when I tried to install DokuWiki on the GMX server I got the error message that only PHP 4.x seemed to be installed.
Googling around I found a solution to force the server to use PHP5 in adding the following two lines to the file
.htaccess in the /dokuwiki folder:
AddType x-mapp-php5 .php
AddHandler x-mapp-php5 .php
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Installing the doogie template, the textile2 and sync plugins didn't show any issues: excellent work!
Zbigniew