DokuWiki on a Stick is the portable version of DokuWiki. It contains its own stripped down Apache webserver. This allows you to run DokuWiki from a portable device like an USB stick on any Windows computer without installing anything on the computer itself.¹⁾ Of course, you can also copy it to any directory on your hard disk and run it from there.

• The current (July 2022) latest stable version (incl. Apache 2.4.46 & PHP 7.4.12) requires Windows 7 or higher.²⁾
• Microsoft Visual Studio runtime libraries.

To create an “on the Stick” edition of DokuWiki, visit download.dokuwiki.org and check the “MicroApache (Windows)” checkbox in the “Include Webserver” section.

Unpack the downloaded archive file and move the resulting DokuWikiStick to your USB thumb drive.

You'll find a run.cmd file in the DokuWikiStick directory. Double click it and the MicroApache webserver will start up and open your wiki in the system's default browser. On the first time it will open the usual DokuWiki Installer where you can configure the basic settings. Later it will simply load your wiki's start page at http://localhost:8800/

In case the stop command in the run.cmd does not work, try to use the command

taskkill /f /im mapache.exe

which will kill the mapache.exe instances on your machine and also exits the DOS shell.

You can update your Stick Edition just like a normal DokuWiki installation by downloading a new package and overwrite the existing files. (See Upgrading DokuWiki).

An even easier method is to install the Upgrade Plugin.

• DokuWiki on a Stick in DropBox
• Dokuwiki on a stick for windows and Linux Execution
• DokuWiki on a Stick on a Windows-UNC-Share (German)
• More than one instance of Dokuwiki-on-a-stick
• Understand how DokuWiki works

These releases are no longer recommended for usage and are listed for reference only.

• DokuWiki on a Stick rc2013-03-06 “Weatherwax RC1” (bundled with MicroApache 2.0.64, PHP 5.2.17, GD2 and SQLite)
• DokuWiki on a Stick 2010-11-07a “Anteater” (bundled with the latest MicroApache 2.0.63, PHP 5.2.9, GD2 and SQLite)
• DokuWiki on a Stick 2010-11-07 “Anteater” (bundled with the latest MicroApache 2.0.63, PHP 5.2.9, GD2 and SQLite)
• DokuWiki on a Stick rc2010-10-27 “Busy Wednesday” (bundled with the latest MicroApache 2.0.63, PHP 5.2.9, GD2 and SQLite)
• DokuWiki on a Stick rc2010-10-07 “Lazy Sunday” (bundled with the latest MicroApache 2.0.63, PHP 5.2.9, GD2 and SQLite)
• DokuWiki on a Stick 2009-12-25c “Lemming” (bundled with the latest MicroApache 2.0.63, PHP 5.2.9, GD2 and SQLite)
• DokuWiki on a Stick 2009-12-25 “Lemming” (bundled with the latest MicroApache 2.0.63, PHP 5.2.9, GD2 and SQLite)
• DokuWiki on a Stick rc2009-12-02 “Mulled Wine” (bundled with the latest MicroApache 2.0.63, PHP 5.2.9, GD2 and SQLite)
• DokuWiki on a Stick 2009-02-14b (bundled with the latest MicroApache 2.0.63, PHP 5.2.9, GD2 and SQLite)
• DokuWiki on a Stick 2009-02-14b (bundled with MicroApache 2.0.61, PHP 5.2.5, GD2 and SQLite)
• DokuWiki on a Stick 2009-02-14 (bundled with MicroApache 2.0.61, PHP 5.2.5, GD2 and SQLite)
• DokuWiki on a Stick 2008-05-05 (bundled with MicroApache 2.0.61, PHP 5.2.5, GD2 and SQLite)
• DokuWiki on a Stick 2007-06-26b (bundled with MicroApache 2.0.61, PHP 4.4.7 and GD2)