Foswiki vs. JSPWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PhpWiki vs. PmWiki

General Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Version
2.1.9
2.11.0
Pleiades-M45
2.3.13
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.5.4
Last Release Date
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
2005-03-22 (20 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
Last Update here
2024-12-18 (11 months ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
2009-12-23 (15 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2025-12-06 (10 days ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
Apache Software Foundation
team
Alex Schroeder
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
LGPL
GPL
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
Perl
Java
Perl
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
0
0
free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
all
corporate and special interest groups
family people, hackers
Any
All
System Requirements Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Unix/Linux
Anything supported by Perl
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
perl 4 or newer
Writable data directory
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Yes
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
No
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Apache
None (use your web server instead)
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Optional
Development/Support Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
117 ⭐
110 ⭐
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Unknown
Optional
No
Optional
Interface Languages
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
1
English
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Page Locking
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Yes
Links Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
HTML Tags
All
Optional
All
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
No
Optional
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
Plugin
No
Optional
No
No
No
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
Perl
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Statistics Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Output Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Media and Files Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Keywords
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Chat
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples Foswiki JSPWiki KeheiWiki Oddmuse PhpWiki PmWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold*
__bold__
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italic_
''italics''
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
no example known
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* one
** two
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
---
----
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
Depending on plugins:
----
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