his is a somewhat recycled version of a forum post that I have to lookup again and again, because the same similar questions keep popping up:

How can I install DokuWiki on a shared drive?

How to run DokuWiki out of Dropbox and share it with multiple users?

How to sync DokuWiki between different computers?

These questions mostly come from users who made their first steps in DokuWiki using the "DokuWiki on a Stick" version. To novice users, the stick version feels like a traditional desktop application: you double click the run.cmd and DokuWiki starts.

But what is really starting is a local web server and a browser pointing to said web server.