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In this section you will find some basic instructions on how to create a new page, add links to it and to specific sections.
Create New Pages
A wiki with just one page isn’t very exciting nor interesting. So let’s make a page. I want a page called, let’s say Pink Elephants. There are a few ways to start — all of them are just ways to vist the URL of that page on my site. Here are a few ways:
Create a link to the new page
You can manually create a link to your new page on another page and then click that link to get to the new URL. See below for how to create a link.
Search for the new page
If you type Pink Elephants in the search box on the top right of your page and click the magnifying class, you will get a page like this:
Now you can just click on that red pink_elephants link to visit your new page.
Manually Visit the URL
If your site’s default configuration has not been changed (or your server doesn’t support “Nice URLs”) then the default URL system is mysite/doku.php?id=PAGENAME so I thus would enter into my browser address bar:
mysite.com/doku.php?id=Pink Elephants
If your site has been configured to use “Nice URLs” then the URL would be:
mysite.com/Pink Elephants
When I do that, I see again that same “This topic does not exist yet” message. Now I know what to do — I just click the pencil icon and create my page.
The only thing to note here is that after I create my page, I see that DokuWiki has changed the Pink Elephants part of the URL to be just pink_elephants. That’s because DokuWiki doesn’t allow capital letters or spaces (or other special characters) in page names.
But that’s OK — I don’t mind — the main thing is that I have my page done now.
