This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
-1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
+1. [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki.
2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
- As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source
- directory, and outputs the files to a destination directory.
+ As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
+ and outputs the files to a destination directory. If you keep your wiki in
+ a version control system, the source directory will contain a working copy
+ checked out from the version control system.
For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
- SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
- DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
+ SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
+ DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
+
+ Note that ikiwiki owns the working copy directory; do not perform your own
+ edits in ikiwiki's working copy.
3. Create the beginnings of your wiki.
This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
- mkdir $SRCDIR
- cd $SRCDIR
- $EDITOR index.mdwn
-
- In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like this one:
-
- Welcome to your new wiki.
-
- All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], so this one does too.
-
- ----
-
- This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net).
+ mkdir $SRCDIR
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ $EDITOR index.mdwn
+ In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like
+ [[toggle id=page text="this one"]].
+
+ [[toggleable id=page text="""
+ Welcome to your new wiki.
+ All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]],
+ so this one does too.
+ ----
+ This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info).
+ """]]
+
See [[HelpOnFormatting]] for details about the markup language.
Note that several standard wiki pages will be added to your wiki, from
4. Build your wiki for the first time.
- ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
+ ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/
Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
- the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
- `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
- (see [[usage]]).
+ the wiki.
+
+ To quickly get started on a common task like blogging with ikiwiki, you
+ can copy in files from the [[examples]]. The examples are located in
+ `doc/examples/` in the ikiwiki source package.
+
+ You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as `--wikiname`
+ and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see
+ [[usage]]).
6. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. Time to
There's little that's ikiwiki specific about these instructions; this is
just how you put a directory under revision control using the various
- systems ikiwiki supports:
+ systems that ikiwiki supports. Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is
+ where ikiwiki keeps its state, and should be preserved, but not checked
+ into revision control.
+
+ [[toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
+ [[toggleable id=subversion text="""
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
+ svn mkdir file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "create trunk"
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk .
+ svn add *
+ svn commit -m "initial import"
+ """]]
- # Subversion
- REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
- svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
- svn import $SRCDIR file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "initial import"
- rm -rf $SRCDIR
- svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk $SRCDIR
-
- # Git
- REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
- mkdir $REPOSITORY
- cd $REPOSITORY
- git init-db
- cp -a $SRCDIR/* .
- git add .
- git commit -m "initial import" -a
- rm -rf $SRCDIR
- git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
-
- # TLA
- REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
- tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
- tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
- cd $SRCDIR
- tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
- tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
- # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
- # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
- tla add *
- tla import
-
- # Mercurial
- REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
- hg init $REPOSITORY
+ [[toggle id=git text="Git"]]
+ [[toggleable id=git text="""
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ mkdir $REPOSITORY
+ cd $REPOSITORY
+ git init-db
+ cp -a $SRCDIR/* .
+ git add .
+ git commit -m "initial import" -a
+ mv $SRCDIR/.ikiwiki .
+ rm -rf $SRCDIR
+ git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
+ """]]
+
+ [[toggle id=tla text="TLA"]]
+ [[toggleable id=tla text="""
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
+ tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
+ tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
+ # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
+ # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
+ tla add *
+ tla import
+ """]]
+
+ [[toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]]
+ [[toggleable id=mercurial text="""
+ REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
+ hg init $REPOSITORY
+ cd $REPOSITORY
+ hg add *
+ hg commit -m "initial import"
+ """]]
9. Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
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