Added note about apache2 userdir mod.

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / tips / dot_cgi.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/tips/dot_cgi.mdwn b/doc/tips/dot_cgi.mdwn
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--- a/doc/tips/dot_cgi.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/dot_cgi.mdwn
@@ -28,6 +28,10 @@ configuration changes should work anywhere.
 
   You may also want to install some dependencies to enable CGI in apache2 setup as: `libcgi-formbuilder-perl` and `libcgi-session-perl`.
 
+* If your wiki is in `~/public_html` and does not appear when you enter the URL given by the installer, check that you have 
+  the userdir mod enabled (there should be simlinks to userdir.load and userdir.conf in /etc/apache2/modes-enabled).  If not,
+  run `a2enmod userdir` and reload apache2.
+  
 * You may also want to enable the [[plugins/404]] plugin.
   To make apache use it, the apache config file will need a further
   modification to make it use ikiwiki's CGI as the apache 404 handler.
@@ -68,7 +72,9 @@ them with:
     spawn-fcgi -s /tmp/fcgi.socket -n -- /usr/sbin/fcgiwrap
 
 This needs to be ran as your user. It can be added to `inittab` or
-made into a startup script in `init.d`.
+made into a startup script in `init.d`. You may also need to make this file writable by the webserver, if that's running as a different user, e.g.:
+
+    chmod a+w /tmp/fcgi.socket
 
 Then you need an nginx config plugged in that wrapper. Here's an
 example virtual host configuration: