X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/c06adfafef8b8e462bf9ceb2856aae9de6d2f3a4..8bb8441523af1f2a577bd7d1f6150d0d647649e3:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 0d29853f9..58fb97334 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -5,54 +5,79 @@ Do so here.. Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the [[bugs]] and [[todo]] pages. +[[toc ]] + # 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:- +Ikiwiki creates a .ikiwiki directory in my wikiwc working directory. Should I +"svn add .ikiwiki" or add it to svn:ignore? -* 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). +> `.ikiwiki` is used by ikiwiki to store internal state. You can add it to +> svn:ignore. --[[Joey]] +> > Thanks a lot. -> 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]] +Is there an easy way to log via e-mail to some webmaster address, instead +of via syslog? -* I don't seem to have got an ikiwiki man page created. +> Not sure why you'd want to do that, but couldn't you use a tool like +> logwatch to mail selected lines from the syslog? --[[Joey]] -> 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]] +> > The reason is that I'm not logged in on the web server regularly to +> > check the log files. I'll see whether I can install a logwatch instance. -> 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]] +# Upgrade steps + +I upgrades from 1.37 to 2.6.1. I ran "ikiwiki --setup" using my existing ikiwiki.setup configuration. +I had many errors like: + + /home/bsdwiki/www/wiki/wikilink/index.html independently created, not overwriting with version from wikilink + BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 5) line 129. + +and: + + failed renaming /home/bsdwiki/www/wiki/smileys.ikiwiki-new to /home/bsdwiki/www/wiki/smileys: Is a directory + BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 5) line 129. + +Probably about six errors like this. I worked around this by removing the files and directories it complained about. +Finally it finished. + +My next problem was that ikiwiki start letting me edit without any password authentication. It used to prompt +me for a password but now just goes right into the "editing" mode. +The release notes for 2.0 say password auth is still on by default. + +The third problem is that when editing my textbox is empty -- no content. + +This is using my custom rcs.pm which has been used thousands of times. + +Now I regenerated my ikiwiki.cgi again (no change to my configuration, +and I just get an empty HTML page when attempting editing or "create". + +Now I see it created directories for my data. I fixed that by setting +usedirs (I see that is in the release notes for 2.0) and rerunning ikiwiki --setup +but I still have empty pages for editing (no textbox no html at all). -> OK, thanks, I don't quite know what was happening before but it seems to be working right now. -> --[[Chris]] +> Is IkiWiki crashing? If so, it would probably leave error text in the apache logs. --[[TaylorKillian]] ->> 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 am posting this now, but will do some research and post some more.) -* 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. +Is there any webpage with upgrade steps? + +--JeremyReed + +My followup: I used a new ikiwiki.setup based on the latest version. But no changes for me. + +Also I forgot to mention that do=recentchanges works good for me. It uses my +rcs_recentchanges in my rcs perl module. + +The do=prefs does nothing though -- just a blank webpage. + +I also set verbose => 1 and running ikiwiki --setup was verbose, but no changes in running CGI. +I was hoping for some output. + +I am guessing that my rcs perl module stopped working on the upgrade. I didn't notice any release notes +on changes to revision control modules. Has something changed? I will also look. + +--JeremyReed ---- # Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site? @@ -78,158 +103,162 @@ easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl). > > We will post the scripts as soon as we have them complete enough to convert our wikis. > -> -- Josh Triplett +> -- [[JoshTriplett]] >> Thanks for an excellent Xmas present, I will appreciate the additional >> users this will help switch to ikiwiki! --[[Joey]] ---- -# OpenID +# LaTeX support? -I just figured I'd edit something on the page with my OpenID, since you've implemented it! --*[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)*= +Moved to [[todo/latex]] --[[Joey]] -> Kyle, If you like openid, I can switch your personal wiki over to use your openid. --[[Joey]] +---- ----- +# Using with CVS? -# ACL +Moved to a [[todo_item|todo/CVS_backend]]. --[[JoshTriplett]] -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]] +# Show differences before saving page? ->> 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]] +Moved to the existing [[todo_item|todo/preview_changes]]. --[[JoshTriplett]] ->>> 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]] +---- + +# Max submit size? + +Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form? +-- [[JeremyReed]] ->>>> 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]] +>>> See [[todo/fileupload]] for an idea on limiting page size. --[[Joey]] ---- -Some questions about the RecentChanges function. -- Ethan +# Access Keys -> (Moved to [[todo/recentchanges]] --[[Joey]]) +Would anyone else find this a valuable addition. In oddmuse and instiki (the only other +wiki engines I am currently using, the edit, home, and submit link tags have an +accesskey attribute. I find it nice not to have to resort to the mouse for those +actions. However, it may not be something everyone appreciates. Any thoughts? +--[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) + +> Maybe, although it would need to take the critisism at +> into account. + +>> Thank you for that link. Given that the edit link is the first thing you tab to +>> in the current layout, I guess it isn't all that necessary. I have had a +>> a user complaint recently that Alt-e in oddmuse was overriding his access +>> to the browser menu. ---- -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 +# Editing the style sheet. + +It would be nice to be able to edit the stylesheet by means of the cgi. Or is this possible? I wasn't able to achieve it. +Ok, that's my last 2 cents for a while. --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) -> That's already available in the BASEURL parameter. --[[Joey]] +> I don't support editing it, but if/when ikiwiki gets [[todo/fileupload]] support, +> it'll be possible to upload a style sheet. (If .css is in the allowed +> extensions list.. no idea how safe that would be, a style sheet is +> probably a great place to put XSS attacks and evil javascript that would +> be filtered out of any regular page in ikiwiki). --[[Joey]] + +>> I hadn't thought of that at all. It's a common feature and one I've +>> relied on safely, because the wikis I am maintaining at the moment +>> are all private and restricted to trusted users. Given that the whole +>> point of ikiwiki is to be able to access and edit via the shell as +>> well as the web, I suppose the features doesn't add a lot. By the +>> way, the w3m mode is brilliant. I haven't tried it yet, but the idea +>> is great. ---- -# Canonical feed location? +# Should not create an existing page + +This might be a bug, but will discuss it here first. +Clicking on an old "?" or going to a create link but new Markdown content exists, should not go into "create" mode, but should do a regular "edit". -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.) +> I belive that currently it does a redirect to the new static web page. +> At least that's the intent of the code. --[[Joey]] -> 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]] +>> Try at your site: `?page=discussion&from=index&do=create` +>> It brings up an empty textarea to start a new webpage -- even though it already exists here. --reed ->> That wouldn't use the same style for the RSS and Atom links, and it ->> wouldn't embed the feed link into `` so that browsers can automatically ->> find it. +>>> Ah, right. Notice that the resulting form allows saving the page as +>>> discussion, or users/discussion, but not index/discussion, since this +>>> page already exists. If all the pages existed, it would do the redirect +>>> thing. --[[Joey]] ---- -# asciidoc or txt2tags ? +# User database tools? -Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags? +Any tool to view user database? -> 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]] +Any tool to edit the user database? ----- +> No, but it's fairly easy to write such tools in perl. For example, to +> list all users in the user database: -# LaTeX support? + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $_ foreach keys %$userinfo' + http://joey.kitenet.net/ + foo -Any plugins or support for exporting to LaTeX? -(If not could use asciidoc or txt2tags mentioned above to generated LaTeX.) +> To list each user's email address: -> It's already [[been_requested|todo/latex]], although perhaps not -> working the way you're thinking of. Noone is currently working on it. -> --[[Joey]] + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $userinfo->{$_}->{email} foreach keys %$userinfo' + + joey@kitenet.net ->> I did some tests with using Markdown and a customized HTML::Latex and html2latex ->> and it appears it will work for me now. (I hope to use ikiwiki for many ->> to collaborate on a printed book that will be generated at least once per day in PDF format.) ->> ->> --JeremyReed +> Editing is simply a matter of changing values and calling Storable::store(). +> I've not written actual utilities to do this yet because I've only needed +> to do it rarely, and the data I've wanted has been different each time. +> --[[Joey]] ---- -# Using with RCS? +# Spaces in WikiLinks? -Any examples of using co(1), ci(1) and other RCS related tools with ikiwiki? +Hello Joey, -> 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]] +I've just switched from ikiwiki 2.0 to ikiwiki 2.2 and I'm really surprised +that I can't use the spaces in WikiLinks. Could you please tell me why the spaces +aren't allowed in WikiLinks now? ->> It does have history using rlog(1) which is similar format to "cvs log". ->> I don't think it has any possible hooks. What would happen if I call ->> ikiwiki directly from rcs_commit? (I didn't try yet.) On that note, ->> I don't see any way for ikiwiki to generate a single file, but I guess ->> that doesn't matter as --refresh should be fast enough. ->> I made a Rcs/rcs.pm plugin from Stub. I have been testing it some. ->> ->> --JeremyReed +My best regards, ->> I made a working rcs plugin. And I made a RCS-to-web CGI. Details ->> at [[patchqueue/rcs_(third-party_plugin)]] ->> --[[JeremyReed]] ->> ->> (Moved to patchqueue --[[Joey]]) +--[[Paweł|ptecza]] ----- +> See [[bugs/Spaces_in_link_text_for_ikiwiki_links]] -# Using with CVS? +---- -Any examples of using ikiwiki with cvs? +# Build in OpenSolaris? -> 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]] +Moved to [[bugs/build_in_opensolaris]] --[[Joey]] ---- -# Show differences before saving page? +# Various ways to use Subversion with ikiwiki -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? +I'm playing around with various ways that I can use subversion with ikiwiki. -> It's doable, it could even be done by a [[todo/plugin]], I think. -> --[[Joey]] +* Is it possible to have ikiwiki point to a subversion repository which is on a different server? The basic checkin/checkout functionality seems to work but there doesn't seem to be any way to make the post-commit hook work for a non-local server? ----- +> This is difficult to do since ikiwiki's post-commit wrapper expects to +> run on a machine that contains both the svn repository and the .ikiwiki +> state directory. However, with recent versions of ikiwiki, you can get +> away without running the post-commit wrapper on commit, and all you lose +> is the ability to send commit notification emails. -# Max submit size? +* Is it possible / sensible to have ikiwiki share a subversion repository with other data (either completely unrelated files or another ikiwiki instance)? This works in part but again the post-commit hook seems problematic. -Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form? --- [[JeremyReed]] +--[[AdamShand]] -> Not currently. Worried about abuse? --[[Joey]] +> Sure, see ikiwiki's subversion repository for example of non-wiki files +> in the same repo. If you have two wikis in one repository, you will need +> to write a post-commit script that calls the post-commit wrappers for each +> wiki.