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/
+ 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.
All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]],
so this one does too.
----
- This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net).
+ 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
- files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/`, so your wiki will automatically
- get a [[SandBox]], and some other useful pages.
+ Note that several [[standard_wiki_pages|basewiki]] will be added to your
+ wiki, from files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/`, so your wiki will
+ automatically get a [[SandBox]], and some other useful pages.
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.
introduce setup files.
A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from
- `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it.
+ `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it. Note that this
+ file should *not* be put in your wiki's directory with the rest of the
+ files. A good place to put it is in a ~/.ikiwiki/ subdirectory.
Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
[[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
+ For Git, you need two repositories, of which one should be bare
+ (meaning that it does not have a working tree checked out). We call
+ the bare repository the "repo" and the other the "srcdir".
+ There are [other
+ ways](http://blog.madduck.net/vcs/2007.07.11_publishing-git-repositories)
+ to do the following, but this might be easiest:
+
+ REPO=./wiki.git
+ # SRCDIR is where ikiwiki compiles from. You thus need
+ # to set `srcdir` in ikiwiki.setup appropriately. The
+ # -wc in the name suggests "working clone" because
+ # $SRCDIR holds a Git repository with a working tree.
+ SRCDIR=./wiki-wc
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ git init
+ echo "Initial index page" > index.mdwn
+ echo .ikiwiki > .gitignore
+ git add index.mdwn .gitignore
+ git commit -m'Initial commit'
+ # Stop git performing fast forwards -- this is to avoid
+ # overwriting the remote ref and losing other peoples'
+ # commits from there.
+ git config receive.denyNonFastForwards true
+ git config core.bare true
+ mv .git $REPO
+ test -d .ikiwiki && mv .ikiwiki ..
+ cd ..
+ rm -r $SRCDIR
+ git clone -l -s $REPO $SRCDIR
+ test -d .ikiwiki && mv .ikiwiki $SRCDIR
+
+ It is **paramount** that you **never** push to the Git repository in
+ `$SRCDIR` ([this FAQ entry explains
+ why](http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-b6a3d85f677763313159eb39f7dbf4579d4ee28b)).
+ Instead, if you want to work on the wiki from a remote machine, clone
+ `$REPO`, using either the `git` transport (if available), or
+ `ssh`.
+
+ To automatically update the wiki when you push changes to
+ `$REPO`, `ikiwiki` can install a `post-update` hook. You need to
+ enable this hook in `ikiwiki.setup` and the path to use should be
+ `$REPO/hooks/post-update`.
+
+ Finally, then, setup `ikiwiki`:
+
+ ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup
+
+ If you commit changes in `$SRCDIR`, make sure to `git push` them to
+ the `$REPO`.
"""]]
[[toggle id=tla text="TLA"]]
hg commit -m "initial import"
"""]]
+ [[toggle id=monotone text="Monotone"]]
+ [[toggleable id=monotone text="""
+ # These instructions are standard instructions to import a directory into monotone
+ # and set it up so that you don't need any passwords to use it
+ REPOSITORY=~/.ikiwiki/mtn.db
+ BRANCH=com.company.wikiname
+ # remember the password you use in the next step and
+ # substitute it for 'wikiKeyPass' in the get_passphrase() hook below
+ # note the you should never generate two monotone keys with the same name
+ mtn genkey web@machine.company.com
+ mtn db init --db=$REPOSITORY
+ mv $SRCDIR $SRCDIR-old
+ cd $SRCDIR-old
+ echo ".ikiwiki" > $SRCDIR-old/.mtn-ignore
+ mtn --db=$REPOSITORY --branch=$BRANCH import . -m "initial import"
+ cd ..
+ mtn --db=$REPOSITORY --branch=$BRANCH checkout $SRCDIR
+ mv $SRCDIR-old/.ikiwiki $SRCDIR
+ cat << EOF > $SRCDIR/_MTN/monotonerc
+ function get_passphrase (branchname)
+ return "wikiKeyPass"
+ end
+ EOF
+ rm -r $SRCDIR-old
+ """]]
+
9. Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system,
And in the web interface, RecentChanges should work, and files changed
by web users will also be committed using revision control.
-10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]].
+10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]. And check out
+ [[tips]] to find out how to get more out of ikiwiki.
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