XML-RPC is one of the available protocols to access DokuWiki's Remote API.

The API implements the Wiki RPC Interface 2.0 Specifications (web.archive.org) in the wiki.* namespace and adds additional DokuWiki specific calls in the dokuwiki.* namespace.

Plugins can add their own calls to the API using Remote Plugin components.

Note: there is also a JSON-RPC API which provides the same functionality but is based on JSON rather XML.

1. Set the remote option to enable XML-RPC in the Configuration Settings «Authentication» section
2. Set the remoteuser option with a mix of comma separated «usernames,groups»
3. For security reasons it's safer to allow access to the XML-RPC over HTTPS only. DokuWiki's .htaccess.dist contains some rewrite rules to do that.
4. You might need to install an XML package like php-xml (on debian)

You can access the XML-RPC interface via the following URLs:

http://<your wiki/domain/ip>/lib/exe/xmlrpc.php

or

https://<your wiki/domain/ip>/lib/exe/xmlrpc.php

Here are some Samples of Clients using the XML-RPC Api to test with

You should use an XML-RPC library instead of hand-crafting your requests.

Here is an example of how to post to the API:

POST /RPC2 HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Frontier/5.1.2 (WinNT)
Host: betty.userland.com
Content-Type: text/xml
Content-length: 181
 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
    <methodName>examples.getStateName</methodName>
    <params>
        <param> 
            <value>
                <i4>41</i4>
            </value>
        </param> 
    </params> 
</methodCall> 

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
    <methodName>dokuwiki.getVersion</methodName>
</methodCall>

example put page

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<methodCall>
    <methodName>wiki.putPage</methodName>
    <params>
        <param> 
            <value>
                <string>myputpage  
                </string>
            </value>
        </param> 
        <param> 
            <value>
                <string>This is my page content</string>
            </value>
        </param>
        <param> 
            <value>
                <struct>
                    <member>
                        <name>sum</name>
                        <value><string>Spiceworks</string></value>
                    </member>
                    <member>
                        <name>minor</name>
                        <value><boolean>True</boolean></value>
                    </member>
                </struct>
            </value>
        </param> 
    </params> 
</methodCall>

Functions are listed in the following format:

Use Remote Plugins to add other methods to the XML-RPC API.

A summary of recent plugins which indicate Remote support:

To implement such a plugin please have a look at the remote plugins development documentation.

Since XML-RPC API Version 7 (API Version 7 is since Release Adora Belle (2012-10-13)) useful hierarchical error codes have been introduced. The following error codes can be returned by the XML-RPC Interface:

Italic rows are just categories. Only normal printed rows are returned by the interface.

• 100 → Page errors
  • 110 → Page access errors
    • 111 → User is not allowed to read the requested page
    • 112 → User is not allowed to edit the page
    • 113 → manager permission is required
    • 114 → superuser permission is required
  • 120 → Page existence errors
    • 121 → The requested page does not exist
  • 130 → Page edit errors
    • 131 → Empty page id
    • 132 → Empty page content
    • 133 → Page is locked
    • 134 → Positive wordblock check
• 200 → Media errors
  • 210 → Media access errors
    • 211 → User is not allowed to read the requested media
    • 212 → User is not allowed to delete media
    • 215 → User is not allowed to list media
  • 220 → Media existence errors
    • 221 → The requested media does not exist
  • 230 → Media edit errors
    • 231 → Filename not given
    • 232 → File is still referenced
    • 233 → Could not delete file
• 300 → Search errors
  • 310 → Argument errors
    • 311 → The provided value is not a valid timestamp
  • 320 → Search result errors
    • 321 → No changes in specified timeframe
• 400 → User management errors
  • 401 invalid user name given
  • 402 invalid user name given
  • 403 invalid email address given

Additionally there are some server error codes that indicate some kind of server or XML-RPC failure. The codes are the following:

• -32600 → Invalid XML-RPC request. Not conforming to specification.
• -32601 → Requested method does not exist.
• -32602 → Wrong number of parameters or invalid method parameters.
• -32603 → Not authorized to call the requested method (No login or invalid login data was given).
• -32604 → Forbidden to call the requested method (but a valid login was given).
• -32605 → The XML-RPC API has not been enabled in the configuration
• -32700 → Parse Error. Request not well formed.
• -32800 → Recursive calls to system.multicall are forbidden.
• -99999 → Unknown server error.

A number of clients written in different languages are available.