To install DokuWiki using the FreeBSD ports tree, do the following:

#> cd /usr/ports/www/dokuwiki
#> make install clean

The default DokuWiki directory is /usr/local/www/dokuwiki – Of course the directory can be changed or symbolic linked to anywhere

To configure dokuwiki copy the options from the /usr/local/www/dokuwiki/conf/dokuwiki.php file you want to edit to /usr/local/www/dokuwiki/conf/local.php.

This should be done because a portupgrade will overwrite dokuwiki.php.

To upgrade using the ports tree, do:

#> portupgrade dokuwiki

Make sure that the ports tree has been updated, or this will have no effect.

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In addition to building from source, as of freeBSD 10+, one can now use the package manager:

pkg install dokuwiki

The package maintainer recommends moving the data directory, and as noted above, it can be moved anywhere. Here is a common set-up and set of commands for moving it outside of the web server's root directory.

mv /usr/local/www/nginx/dokuwiki/data /usr/local/www/data
nano /usr/local/www/nginx/dokuwiki/conf/local.php

Inside the local.php file, add something like this:

$conf['savedir'] = '/usr/local/www/data/';

Close the file and now let's make sure that new directory can be accessed by externally:

sudo chmod -R 775 /usr/local/www/data
sudo chown -R www /usr/local/www/data

This should remove the security warning from the Admin/Install pages.