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Oddmuse is a wiki engine.

Oddmuse is one Perl script – and, optionally, one Perl script configuration and suite of Perl script extensions, CSS themes, and installation examples. Oddmuse leverages your local filesystem for storing, restoring, and versioning page content, rather than local or remote databases. "No MySQL; no PostgreSQL; no worries."

Oddmuse is free as in beer and free as in speech software, openly released under the GNU General Public License.

Downloading Oddmuse!

Oddmuse is freely downloadable. The newest versions are:

Please download the stable version, unless you know what you’re doing. Or pretend to know.

The stable version is named current.pl; the unstable version is named wiki.pl. Though their filenames differ, these are, actually, different versions of the same file – and can be named whatever you like and your Oddmuse configuration expects.

The stable version is hosted at EmacsWiki, a popular Oddmuse Wiki; the unstable version is hosted at Savannah, a popular project manager.

Running Oddmuse!

Oddmuse is cross-platform compatible. It runs on a variety of operating systems (Linux, OS X, Windows), webservers (Apache HTTP Server, Bozotic HTTP Server, lighttpd), and webserver hosts (NearlyFreeSpeech.NET, BlueHost, DreamHost, and several free hosts).

A Word – or Two

Oddmuse is rather feature-filled, configurable, and extensible. See our SiteMap for details, downloads, modules, and discussion.

If you’d like to test Oddmuse without installing it, see our Test Wikis.

If you’d like to comment on Oddmuse, report an Oddmuse bug, or otherwise contribute to Oddmuse maintenance, see the "Comments on..." link at the bottom of every page.

Lastly, the canonical URL for this page is:

A Word from the Maintainer

“I am interested in improving the documentation, and translating it into other languages. There is no mailing list for this wiki; we use IRC and this site to communicate.

I also hang out as ‘kensanata’ on #wiki and #oddmuse on the freenode network.” – Alex Schröder