Hey all,
I use Dokuwiki extensively to manage all my reading notes etc for my PhD (documented my setup here
http://reganmian.net/wiki/researchr:start). I run DW locally (what you see in that link is just a snapshot which I upload with rsync). So far I have been running the built-in Apache in OSX (Lion), with minimal modifications. However, I am not too happy with this solution. It usually takes like 45 seconds to view a new page when I have not used the system in a bit (presumably it unloads Apache when it's not in use), even though I have MinServer 1 in the httpd.conf file. In general too, I feel like Apache is a bit overkill for this. I would like something simple and very fast that just serves my DokuWiki to myself (no need for hundreds of concurrent requests etc) - which doesn't use much memory when I am not accessing the wiki, but which is very fast at responding when I want to access it.
I had a look at the alternatives, different webservers, like nginx, and different ways of launching php, like fastcgi, phpmod etc. However I have no idea what would work well for my situation, and I really don't want to spent days on trouble-shooting weird configuration files etc. If someone could advise me on the "ideal" setup on OSX for a personal wiki, and send me to some documents about how to set it up to work with php/dokuwiki etc, I'd be really grateful!!
thanks!
Stian