diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/foswiki.nix b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/foswiki.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8c1ac8935a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/web-servers/apache-httpd/foswiki.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+{ config, pkgs, lib, serverInfo, ... }:
+let
+  inherit (pkgs) foswiki;
+  inherit (serverInfo.serverConfig) user group;
+  inherit (config) vardir;
+in
+{
+  options.vardir = lib.mkOption {
+    type = lib.types.path;
+    default = "/var/www/foswiki";
+    description = "The directory where variable foswiki data will be stored and served from.";
+  };
+
+  # TODO: this will probably need to be better customizable
+  extraConfig =
+    let httpd-conf = pkgs.runCommand "foswiki-httpd.conf"
+      { preferLocalBuild = true; }
+      ''
+        substitute '${foswiki}/foswiki_httpd_conf.txt' "$out" \
+          --replace /var/www/foswiki/ "${vardir}/"
+      '';
+    in
+      ''
+        RewriteEngine on
+        RewriteRule /foswiki/(.*) ${vardir}/$1
+
+        <Directory "${vardir}">
+          Require all granted
+        </Directory>
+
+        Include ${httpd-conf}
+        <Directory "${vardir}/pub">
+          Options FollowSymlinks
+        </Directory>
+      '';
+
+  /** This handles initial setup and updates.
+      It will probably need some tweaking, maybe per-site.  */
+  startupScript = pkgs.writeScript "foswiki_startup.sh" (
+    let storeLink = "${vardir}/package"; in
+    ''
+      [ -e '${storeLink}' ] || needs_setup=1
+      mkdir -p '${vardir}'
+      cd '${vardir}'
+      ln -sf -T '${foswiki}' '${storeLink}'
+
+      if [ -n "$needs_setup" ]; then # do initial setup
+        mkdir -p bin lib
+        # setup most of data/ as copies only
+        cp -r '${foswiki}'/data '${vardir}/'
+        rm -r '${vardir}'/data/{System,mime.types}
+        ln -sr -t '${vardir}/data/' '${storeLink}'/data/{System,mime.types}
+
+        ln -sr '${storeLink}/locale' .
+
+        mkdir pub
+        ln -sr '${storeLink}/pub/System' pub/
+
+        mkdir templates
+        ln -sr '${storeLink}'/templates/* templates/
+
+        ln -sr '${storeLink}/tools' .
+
+        mkdir -p '${vardir}'/working/{logs,tmp}
+        ln -sr '${storeLink}/working/README' working/ # used to check dir validity
+
+        chown -R '${user}:${group}' .
+        chmod +w -R .
+      fi
+
+      # bin/* and lib/* shall always be overwritten, in case files are added
+      ln -srf '${storeLink}'/bin/* '${vardir}/bin/'
+      ln -srf '${storeLink}'/lib/* '${vardir}/lib/'
+    ''
+    /* Symlinking bin/ one-by-one ensures that ${vardir}/lib/LocalSite.cfg
+        is used instead of ${foswiki}/... */
+  );
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/servers/foswiki/default.nix b/pkgs/servers/foswiki/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c5831325958
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/servers/foswiki/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perlPackages }:
+
+perlPackages.buildPerlPackage rec {
+  name = "foswiki-${version}";
+  version = "2.1.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/foswiki/${version}/Foswiki-${version}.tgz";
+    sha256 = "03286pb966h99zgickm2f20rgnqwp9wga5wfkdvirv084kjdh8vp";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = with perlPackages; [
+    # minimum requirements from INSTALL.html#System_Requirements
+    AlgorithmDiff ArchiveTar AuthenSASL CGI CGISession CryptPasswdMD5
+    DigestSHA EmailMIME Encode Error FileCopyRecursive HTMLParser HTMLTree
+    IOSocketIP IOSocketSSL JSON
+    LocaleMaketext LocaleMaketextLexicon LocaleMsgfmt
+    LWP URI perlPackages.version
+    /*# optional dependencies
+    libapreq2 DBI DBDmysql DBDPg DBDSQLite FCGI FCGIProcManager
+    CryptSMIME CryptX509 ConvertPEM
+    */
+  ];
+
+  preConfigure = ''
+    touch Makefile.PL
+    patchShebangs .
+  '';
+  configureScript = "bin/configure";
+
+  # there's even no makefile
+  doCheck = false;
+  installPhase = ''cp -r . "$out" ''; # TODO: some fixups will be needed for running it
+
+  meta = with stdenv.lib; {
+    description = "An open, programmable collaboration platform";
+    homepage = http://foswiki.org;
+    license = licenses.gpl2Plus;
+    platforms = platforms.linux;
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 507fb957a84..ac33fb72b59 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -9570,6 +9570,8 @@ let
 
   fleet = callPackage ../servers/fleet { };
 
+  foswiki = callPackage ../servers/foswiki { };
+
   freepops = callPackage ../servers/mail/freepops { };
 
   freeswitch = callPackage ../servers/sip/freeswitch { };
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index af668f5251a..4772480c64a 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -370,6 +370,18 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
     };
   };
 
+  ArchiveTar = buildPerlPackage {
+    name = "Archive-Tar-2.04";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/B/BI/BINGOS/Archive-Tar-2.04.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "c3741bba06a468a5a4db6a79d772c55cf2f6673cf33241a6e6a758707a71d293";
+    };
+    meta = {
+      description = "Manipulates TAR archives";
+      license = "perl";
+    };
+  };
+
   ArchiveZip = buildPerlPackage {
     name = "Archive-Zip-1.16";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -4682,6 +4694,18 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
     buildInputs = [ ];
   };
 
+  FCGIProcManager = buildPerlPackage {
+    name = "FCGI-ProcManager-0.25";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/A/AR/ARODLAND/FCGI-ProcManager-0.25.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "b9ae1146e2638f3aa477c9ab3ceb728f92c5e36e4cce8f0b5847efad601d024d";
+    };
+    meta = {
+      description = "A perl-based FastCGI process manager";
+      license = "unknown";
+    };
+  };
+
   FennecLite = buildPerlModule {
     name = "Fennec-Lite-0.004";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -6077,6 +6101,18 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
     };
   };
 
+  IOSocketIP = buildPerlPackage {
+    name = "IO-Socket-IP-0.37";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/P/PE/PEVANS/IO-Socket-IP-0.37.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "2adc5f0b641d41f662b4d99c0795780c62f9af9119884d053265fc8858ae6f7b";
+    };
+    meta = {
+      description = "Family-neutral IP socket supporting both IPv4 and IPv6";
+      license = "perl";
+    };
+  };
+
   IOSocketInet6 = buildPerlPackage rec {
     name = "IO-Socket-INET6-2.72";
     src = fetchurl {
@@ -6728,6 +6764,18 @@ let self = _self // overrides; _self = with self; {
     };
   };
 
+  LocaleMsgfmt = buildPerlPackage {
+    name = "Locale-Msgfmt-0.15";
+    src = fetchurl {
+      url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/A/AZ/AZAWAWI/Locale-Msgfmt-0.15.tar.gz;
+      sha256 = "c3276831cbeecf58be02081bcc180bd348daa35da21a7737b7b038a59f643ab4";
+    };
+    meta = {
+      description = "Compile .po files to .mo files";
+      license = "perl";
+    };
+  };
+
   LocalePO = buildPerlPackage {
     name = "Locale-PO-0.23";
     src = fetchurl {