X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/6c33adac83ead56198010340b12e5027950601f6..3a54b1cc8da063ed2b23a5da9af4c724423622b6:/doc/setup.mdwn diff --git a/doc/setup.mdwn b/doc/setup.mdwn index 860afd6f5..a598ef716 100644 --- a/doc/setup.mdwn +++ b/doc/setup.mdwn @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ 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. @@ -43,7 +45,7 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki. 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.