1 These are some notes on installing ikiwiki on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I have a three year old machine with a lot of stuff on it so it took quite a while, YMMV.
3 The best part of installing ikiwiki was learning how to use git. I never used source control before but its pretty slick.
8 cd /opt/ikiwiki/install
10 curl http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-(latest version).tar.gz -O
12 tar xzvf git-(latest version).tar.gz
14 cd git-(latest version)
16 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
18 make prefix=/usr/local all
23 git config --global user.name "firstname lastname"
25 git config --global user.email "email here"
27 git config --global color.ui "auto"
30 curl http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.7.3.1.tar.gz | sudo tar -xzC /usr/local/share/man/
33 ## installing ikiwiki:
34 I had terrible trouble installing ikiwiki. It turned out I had accidentally installed Perl through ports. Uninstalling that made everything install nicely.
35 I got an error on msgfmt. Turns out this is a program in gettext. I installed that and it fixed the error.
37 git clone git://git.ikiwiki.info/
39 perl Makefile.PL LIB=/Library/Perl/5.10.0
45 when you make ikiwiki it gives you a .git folder with the ikiwiki files. Stay out of this folder. You want to learn how to create a clone and make all your changes in the clone. When you push the changes ikiwiki will update. I moved a file in this folder by accident because I named my working file the same and I couldn't get into the setup page. I had apparently messed up my ikiwiki git repository. I did a pull into my clone, deleted the repository and webserver/ cgi folders and ran a new setup. Then I did a git clone and dragged all my old files into the new clone. Did the git dance and did git push. Then the angels sang.
48 ## using git from inside a git folder:
50 start with git clone, then learn to do the git dance like this.
54 make your changes to your clone
56 git commit -a -m "message here"
61 When you can't get into the setup page or you get strange behavior after a setup update the Utilities > Console app is your friend.
67 make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/opt/ikiwiki/" GITWEB_CSS="/gitweb.css" GITWEB_LOGO="/git-logo.png" GITWEB_FAVICON="/git-favicon.png"
69 cp gitweb.cgi /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/
70 cp /usr/local/share/gitweb/static/git-favicon.png /Library/WebServer/
71 cp /usr/local/share/gitweb/static/git-logo.png /Library/WebServer/
72 cp /usr/local/share/gitweb/static/gitweb.css /Library/WebServer/
73 cp /usr/local/share/gitweb/static/gitweb.js /Library/WebServer/
75 sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/gitweb.cgi
76 sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/git-favicon.png
77 sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/git-logo.png
78 sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/gitweb.css
79 sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/gitweb.js
83 download xapian and omega
85 I needed pcre: sudo ports install pcre
96 I had a build error do to libiconv undefined symbols. sudo port deactivate libiconv took care of it. After install I had trouble with ikiwiki so I did a sudo port install libiconv and ikiwiki came back.
105 ## installing Search::Xapian from CPAN
107 for some reason this wouldn't install using CPAN console so I went to CPAN online and downloaded the source.
117 it installed without issue so I'm baffled why it didn't install from command line.
122 _ Ikiwiki setup automator.
124 _ This setup file causes ikiwiki to create a wiki, check it into revision
125 _ control, generate a setup file for the new wiki, and set everything up.
127 _ Just run: ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
129 _By default, it asks a few questions, and confines itself to the user's home
130 _directory. You can edit it to change what it asks questions about, or to
131 _modify the values to use site-specific settings.
132 require IkiWiki::Setup::Automator;
134 our $wikiname="your wiki";
135 our $wikiname_short="yourwiki";
137 our $admin="your name";
138 use Net::Domain q{hostfqdn};
139 our $domain="your.domain";
141 IkiWiki::Setup::Automator->import(
142 wikiname => $wikiname,
143 adminuser => [$admin],
145 srcdir => "/opt/ikiwiki/$wikiname_short",
146 destdir => "/Library/WebServer/Documents/$wikiname_short",
147 repository => "/opt/ikiwiki/$wikiname_short.".($rcs eq "monotone" ? "mtn" : $rcs),
148 dumpsetup => "/opt/ikiwiki/$wikiname_short.setup",
149 url => "http://$domain/$wikiname_short",
150 cgiurl => "http://$domain/cgi-bin/$wikiname_short/ikiwiki.cgi",
151 cgi_wrapper => "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/$wikiname_short/ikiwiki.cgi",
152 adminemail => "your\@email.com",
153 add_plugins => [qw{goodstuff websetup}],
154 disable_plugins => [qw{}],
155 libdir => "/opt/ikiwiki/.ikiwiki",
162 ## turning on search plugin:
164 I turned on the plugin from the setup page in ikiwiki but it gave an error when I went to search. Error "blah blah cgi-bin/omega/omega" does not exist or some such. I did a
166 find / -name "omega" -print
168 and found the omega program in
170 /usr/local/lib/xapian-omega/bin/omega.
172 Then I went into the setup file and replaced the bad path, updated and badda-boom badda-bing.