X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/a86cbb8b9fde2211aca283e74f4f24ec84777860..d98f3ef9ac5ee8595c32547b1207892d4f1f312f:/doc/setup.mdwn diff --git a/doc/setup.mdwn b/doc/setup.mdwn index 32e430ec7..ce51faa6d 100644 --- a/doc/setup.mdwn +++ b/doc/setup.mdwn @@ -2,21 +2,27 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki. [[!toc ]] -## [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki +## Install ikiwiki -If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, ikiwiki is an `apt-get install ikiwiki` away. +If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, ikiwiki is an apt-get install ikiwiki away. If you're not, see the [[download]] and [[install]] pages. ## Create your wiki All it takes to create a fully functional wiki using ikiwiki is running one command. +[[!template id=note text=""" +For more control, advanced users may prefer to set up a wiki +[[by_hand|byhand]]. +"""]] - % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup + % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead. - % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup + % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup + +`librpc-xml-perl` and `python-docutils` dependencies are needed. Either way, it will ask you a couple of questions. @@ -33,7 +39,7 @@ Then, wait for it to tell you an url for your new site.. destdir: ~/public_html/foo repository: ~/foo.git To modify settings, edit ~/foo.setup and then run: - ikiwiki -setup ~/foo.setup + ikiwiki --setup ~/foo.setup Done! @@ -42,14 +48,8 @@ Done! Now you can go to the url it told you, and edit pages in your new wiki using the web interface. -You can log in using the wiki user and password (or the openid) -that you told it to set up earlier. That user is an admin, so you can -go to the Preferences page and click on "Wiki Setup" to further -configure the wiki. - (If the web interface doesn't seem to allow editing or login, you may -need to configure [[apache|tips/apache_cgi]] or -[[lighttpd|tips/lighttpd_cgi]].) +need to [[configure_the_web_server|tips/dot_cgi]].) ## Checkout and edit wiki source @@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ web for editing pages, and instead using your favorite text editor and [[Revision_Control_System|rcs]]. To do this, you need to check out a copy of the source to your wiki. -You should avoid making changes directly to the `srcdir`, as that -checkout is reserved for use by ikiwiki itself. +(You should avoid making changes directly to the `srcdir`, as that +checkout is reserved for use by ikiwiki itself.) Depending on which [[Revision_Control_System|rcs]] you chose to use, you can run one of these commands to check out your own copy of your wiki's @@ -67,8 +67,10 @@ source. (Remember to replace "foo" with the real directory name.) git clone foo.git foo.src svn checkout file://`pwd`/foo.svn/trunk foo.src + cvs -d `pwd`/foo get -P ikiwiki bzr clone foo foo.src hg clone foo foo.src + darcs get foo.darcs foo.src # TODO monotone, tla Now to edit pages by hand, go into the directory you checked out (ie, @@ -90,7 +92,7 @@ These range from changing the wiki's name, to enabling [[plugins]], to banning users and locking pages. If you log in as the admin user you configured earlier, and go to -your Preferences page, you can click on "Wiki Setup" to customize many +your Preferences page, you can click on "Setup" to customize many wiki settings and plugins. Some settings cannot be configured on the web, for security reasons or @@ -101,7 +103,13 @@ and gives a brief description of each. After making changes to this file, you need to tell ikiwiki to use it: - % ikiwiki -setup foo.setup + % ikiwiki --setup foo.setup + +Alternatively, you can ask ikiwiki to change settings in the file for you: + + % ikiwiki --changesetup foo.setup --plugin goodstuff + +See [[usage]] for more options. ## Customizing file locations @@ -112,26 +120,24 @@ a working copy checked out from the version control system repository. When you used `auto.setup`, ikiwiki put the source directory, destination directory, and repository in your home directory, and told you the location of each. Those locations were chosen to work without customization, but you -might want to move them to different directories. There are three steps to -this process. - -1. Move the destination directory and repository around. +might want to move them to different directories. +First, move the destination directory and repository around. + % mv public_html/foo /srv/web/foo.com % mv foo.git /srv/git/foo.git -2. Create a new source directory checkout. If you moved the repository - to a new location, checkouts pointing at the old location won't work, - and the easiest way to deal with this is to delete them and re-checkout - from the new repository location. - +If you moved the repository to a new location, checkouts pointing at the +old location won't work, and the easiest way to deal with this is to delete +them and re-checkout from the new repository location. + % rm -rf foo - % git clone /src/git/foo.git + % git clone /srv/git/foo.git -3. Edit the setup file. Modify the settings for `srcdir`, `destdir`, - `url`, `cgiurl`, `cgi_wrapper`, `git_wrapper`, etc to reflect where - you moved things. Remember to run `ikiwiki -setup` after editing the - setup file. +Finally, edit the setup file. Modify the settings for `srcdir`, `destdir`, +`url`, `cgiurl`, `cgi_wrapper`, `git_wrapper`, etc to reflect where +you moved things. Remember to run `ikiwiki --setup` after editing the +setup file. ## Enjoy your new wiki!