-Seems like there should be a page for you to post your thoughts about ikiwiki, both pro and con, anything that didn't work, ideas, or whatever. Do so here..
+Seems like there should be a page for you to post your thoughts about
+ikiwiki, both pro and con, anything that didn't work, ideas, or whatever.
+Do so here..
-Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the [[bugs]] and [[todo]] pages.
+Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the
+[[bugs]] and [[todo]] pages.
+
+# Installation/Setup questions
+
+I have just installed ikiwiki and it works - at least I have the example index.mdwn page
+compiled and visible. However I have a few issues/problems:-
+
+* A couple of the 'optional' Perl modules aren't optional, you can't install ikiwiki without them,
+these are HTML::Template and HTML::Scrubber (at least I think it was these two, it's a bit messy
+to go back and find out).
+
+> You're right, HTML::Template is required. HTML::Scrubber is only required
+> in the default configuration, and is optional if the htmlscrubber plugin
+> is disabled. --[[Joey]]
+
+* I don't seem to have got an ikiwiki man page created.
+
+> It should be installed in /usr/share/man, or a similar directory
+> depending on how your perl is set up and how you did the install.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+> Found it, in /usr/local/share/man, since no other man pages are in either /usr/share/man or in /usr/local/share/man the ikiwiki
+> man page is a bit lonely, and more to the point not on my MANPATH. Still I have found it now, I'll just move it to somewhere
+> more sensible. [[Chris]]
+
+* Running "ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup" doesn't do anything. I have edited ikiwiki.setup to
+my local settings. There are no errors but neither does anything get compiled. An ikiwiki
+command to explicitly do the compile works fine. Am I misunderstanding something here?
+
+> Further tests indicate that ikiwiki isn't seeing changed files so doesn't always rebuild.
+> How does ikiwiki decide when to rebuild? I tried a full command line like "ikiwiki --verbose ikiwiki ~/public_html/ikiwiki --url=http://www.isbd.ltd.uk/~chris/ikiwiki/" and that doesn't do anything
+either though it was the command line I originally used to compile. After a long interval I 'touch'ed
+the files and then it *did* compile but 'touch'ing the files after a few minutes only doesn't seem to force a recompile. I'm even more confused!
+
+> ikiwiki only compiles files whose modification times have changed. It
+> should see any change made as close as a second after the last compile.
+> When run with --setup, ikiwiki always rebuilds every file in the wiki. If
+> --setup is not working, you must have it pointed at the wrong path or
+> something; you can pass -v to see what it's doing. I don't know why it
+> would not see recently changed files; you could try stracing it.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+> OK, thanks, I don't quite know what was happening before but it seems to be working right now.
+> --[[Chris]]
+
+>> Weird. I wish I knew what happened, but as it's working now, I'm
+>> guessing some kind of user error was involved. --[[Joey]]
+
+* I wish there was a mailing list, much easier for this sort of stuff than this, apart from
+anything else I get to use a decent editor.
+
+----
+# Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site?
+
+I just discovered ikiwiki quite by chance, I was looking for a console/terminal
+menu system and found pdmenu. So pdmenu brought me to here and I've found ikiwiki!
+It looks as if it's just what I've been wanting for a long time. I wanted something
+to create mostly text web pages which, as far as possible, have source which is human
+readable or at least in a standard format. ikiwiki does this twice over by using
+markdown for the source and producing static HTML from it.
+
+I'm currently using TWiki and have a fair number of pages in that format, does
+anyone have any bright ideas for translating? I can knock up awk scripts fairly
+easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl).
+
+> Let us know if you come up with something to transition from the other
+> format. Another option would be writing a ikiwiki plugin to support the
+> TWiki format. --[[Joey]]
+
+----
+
+# OpenID
+
+I just figured I'd edit something on the page with my OpenID, since you've implemented it! --*[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)*=
+
+> Kyle, If you like openid, I can switch your personal wiki over to use your openid. --[[Joey]]
+
+----
+
+# ACL
+
+How about adding ACL? So that you can control which users are allowed
+to read, write certain pages. The moinmoin wiki has that, and it is
+something, that I think is very valuable.
+
+> ikiwiki currently has only the most rudimentary access controls: pages
+> can be locked, or unlocked and only the admin can edit locked pages. That
+> could certianly be expanded on, although it's not an area that I have an
+> overwhelming desire to work on myself right now. Patches appreciated and
+> I'll be happy to point you in the right directions.. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> I'm really curious how you'd suggest implementing ACLs on reading a page.
+>> It seems to me the only way you could do it is .htaccess DenyAll or something,
+>> and then route all page views through ikiwiki.cgi. Am I missing something?
+>> --[[Ethan]]
+
+>>> Or you could just use apache or whatever and set up the access controls
+>>> there. Of course, that wouldn't integrate very well with the wiki,
+>>> unless perhaps you decided to use http basic authentication and the
+>>> httpauth plugin for ikiwiki that integrates with that.. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>>> Which would rule out openid, or other fun forms of auth. And routing all access
+>>>> through the CGI sort of defeats the purpose of ikiwiki. --[[Ethan]]
+
+----
+
+Some questions about the RecentChanges function. -- Ethan
+
+> (Moved to [[todo/recentchanges]] --[[Joey]])
+
+----
+
+Also, I'd like to request another template parameter which is just
+$config{url}. That way you won't have to hard-code the URL of the wiki into
+the template. -- Ethan
+
+> That's already available in the BASEURL parameter. --[[Joey]]
----
+# Canonical feed location?
+
+Any way to use `inline` but point the feed links to a different feed on the
+same site? I have news in news/*, a news archive in news.mdwn, and the
+first few news items on index.mdwn, but I don't really want two separate
+feeds, one with all news and one with the latest few articles; I'd rather
+point the RSS feed links of both to the same feed. (Which one, the one
+with all news or the one with the latest news only, I don't know yet.)
+
+> Not currently. It could be implemented, or you could just turn off the
+> rss feed for the index page, and manually put in a wikilink to the news
+> page and rss feed. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> That wouldn't use the same style for the RSS and Atom links, and it
+>> wouldn't embed the feed link into `<head>` so that browsers can automatically
+>> find it.
+
+----
+
+# asciidoc or txt2tags ?
+
+Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags?
+
+> No, but it should be quite easy to write such a plugin. The otl plugin
+> is a good example of writing a formatting plugin that uses an external
+> conversion program, like asciidoc or txt2tags. --[[Joey]]
+
+----
+
+# LaTeX support?
+
+Any plugins or support for exporting to LaTeX?
+(If not could use asciidoc or txt2tags mentioned above to generated LaTeX.)
+
+> It's already [[been_requested|todo/latex]], although perhaps not
+> working the way you're thinking of. Noone is currently working on it.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+----
+
+# Using with RCS?
+
+Any examples of using co(1), ci(1) and other RCS related tools with ikiwiki?
+
+> I don't belive that RCS offers enough SCM features to be useable as a
+> fullfledged backend to ikiwiki. For one thing, there's no way to have
+> hook scripts run when changes are ci'd, is there? So you'd have to ci and
+> then manually run ikiwiki. It should be possible to do an RCS backend
+> that supports web commits with ci, and history (parsing the rcs files by
+> hand?). If you're a masochist. :-) --[[Joey]]
+
+----
+
+# Using with CVS?
+
+Any examples of using ikiwiki with cvs?
+
+> No, although the existing svn backend could fairly esily be modified into
+> a CVS backend, by someone who doesn't mind working with CVS. --[[Joey]]
+
+----
+
+# Show differences before saving page?
+
+It would be nice to be able to have a button to show "Differences" (or "Show Diff") when
+editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled?
+
+> It's doable, it could even be done by a [[todo/plugin]], I think.
+> --[[Joey]]
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