X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/c9e07b583bb730a7697cbbeb8b1b7d912d8a1780..4f009a680650a0f10e902ca149881e3f19a36c20:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 15a85725a..ef7337c89 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -5,54 +5,211 @@ 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]] +---- + +# Installation of selected docs (html) + +The latest release has around 560 files (over 2MB) in html. + +Any suggestions or ideas on limiting what html is installed? + +For example, I don't see value in every ikiwiki install out there to also install personal "users" ikiwiki pages. + +For now I copy ikiwiki.setup. And then use pax with -L switch to copy the targets of the symlinks of the basewiki. + +I was thinking of making a list of desired documents from the html directory to install. + +--JeremyReed + +> You don't need any of them, unless you want to read ikiwiki's docs locally. +> +> I don't understand why you're installing the basewiki files manually; +> ikiwiki has a Makefile that will do this for you. --[[Joey]] + +>> The Makefile's install doesn't do what I want so I use different installer for it. +>> It assumes wrong location for man pages for me. (And it should consider using INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR and +>> MAN1EXT but I don't know about section 8 since I don't know of perl value for that.) +>> I don't want w3m cgi installed; it is optional for my package. +>> I will just patch for that instead of using my own installer. +>> Note: I am working on the pkgsrc package build specification for this. This is for creating +>> packages for NetBSD, DragonFly and other systems that use pkgsrc package system. +>> --JeremyReed + +# Installation as non-root user + +I'd like to install ikiwiki as a non-root user. I can plow through getting all the +perl dependencies installed because that's well documented in the perl world, +but I don't know how to tell ikiwiki to install somewhere other than / --BrianWilson + +---- + +# Upgrade steps + +I upgrades from 1.40 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. + +> As of version 2.0, ikiwiki enables usedirs by default. See +> [[tips/switching_to_usedirs]] for details. --[[Joey]] + +>> I read the config wrong. I was thinking that it showed the defaults even though commented out +>> (like ssh configs do). I fixed that part. --JeremyReed + +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. + +> It sounds like you have the anonok plugin enabled? + +>> Where is the default documented? My config doesn't have it uncommented. + +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. + +> Have you rebuilt the cgi wrapper since you upgraded ikiwiki? AFAIK I +> fixed a bug that could result in the edit box always being empty back in +> version 2.3. The only other way it could happen is if ikiwiki does not +> have saved state about the page that it's editing (in .ikiwiki/index). + +>> Rebuilt it several times. Now that I think of it, I think my early problem of having +>> no content in the textbox was before I rebuilt the cgi. And after I rebuilt the whole webpage was empty. + +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". + +> If the page is completly empty then ikiwiki is crashing before it can +> output anything, though this seems unlikely. Check the webserver logs. + +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). + +> Is IkiWiki crashing? If so, it would probably leave error text in the apache logs. --[[TaylorKillian]] + +>> Not using apache. Nothing useful in logs other thn the HTTP return codes are "0" and bytes is "-" +>> on the empty ikiwiki.cgi output (should say " 200 " followed by bytes). + +>>> You need to either figure out what your web server does with stderr +>>> from cgi programs, or run ikiwiki.cgi at the command line with an +>>> appropriate environment so it thinks it's being called from a web +>>> server, so you can see how it's failing. --[[Joey]] + +(I am posting this now, but will do some research and post some more.) + +Is there any webpage with upgrade steps? + +> Users are expected to read [[news]], which points out any incompatible +> changes or cases where manual action is needed. + +>> I read it but read the usedirs option wrong :(. +>> Also it appears to be missing the news from between 1.40 to 2.0 unless they dont' exist. +>> If they do exist maybe they have release notes I need? + +>>> All the old ones are in the NEWS file. --[[Joey]] + +--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. + +> You need to figure out why ikiwiki is crashing. The webserver logs should +> tell you. + +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. + +> No, the rcs interface has not needed to change in a long time. Also, +> nothing is done with the rcs for do=prefs. + +>> Thanks. I also checked differences between 1.40 Rcs plugins and didn't notice anything significant. -> OK, thanks, I don't quite know what was happening before but it seems to be working right now. -> --[[Chris]] +--JeremyReed ->> Weird. I wish I knew what happened, but as it's working now, I'm ->> guessing some kind of user error was involved. --[[Joey]] +Another Followup: I created a new ikiwiki configuration and did the --setup to +create an entirely different website. I have same problem there. No prompt for password +and empty webpage when using the cgi. +I never upgraded any perl modules so maybe a new perl module is required but I don't see any errors so I don't know. -* 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. +The only errors I see when building and installing ikiwiki are: + + Can't exec "otl2html": No such file or directory at IkiWiki/Plugin/otl.pm line 66. + + gettext 0.14 too old, not updating the pot file + +I don't use GNU gettext on here. + +I may need to revert back to my old ikiwiki install which has been used to thousands of times (with around +1000 rcs commits via ikiwiki). + +--JeremyReed + +I downgraded to version 1.40 (that was what I had before I wrote wrong above). +Now ikiwiki is working for me again (but using 1.40). I shouldn't have tested on production system :) + +--JeremyReed + +I am back. On a different system, I installed ikiwiki 2.6.1. Same problem -- blank CGI webpage. + +So I manually ran with: + + REQUEST_METHOD=GET QUERY_STRING='do=create&page=jcr' kiwiki.cgi + +And clearly saw the error: + + [IkiWiki::main] Fatal: Bad template engine CGI::FormBuilder::Template::div: Can't locate CGI/FormBuilder/Template/div.pm + +So I found my version was too old and 3.05 is the first to provide "Div" support. I upgraded my p5-CGI-FormBuilder to 3.0501. +And ikiwiki CGI started working for me. + +The Ikiwiki docs about this requirement got removed in Revision 4367. There should be a page that lists the requirements. +(I guess I could have used the debian/control file.) + +> There is a page, [[install]] documents that 3.05 is needed. + +>> Sorry, I missed that. With hundreds of wikipages it is hard to read all of them. +>> I am updating the download page now to link to it. + +I am now using ikiwiki 2.6.1 on my testing system. + +--JeremyReed ---- # Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site? @@ -78,199 +235,181 @@ 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 - -I just figured I'd edit something on the page with my OpenID, since you've implemented it! --*[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)*= -> Kyle, If you like openid, I can switch your personal wiki over to use your openid. --[[Joey]] +>> Sounds great indeed. Learning from [here](http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/AboutTheTWikiToIkiwikiConversion/) that HTML::WikiConverter needed for your conversion was not up-to-date on Debian I have now done an unofficial package, including your proposed Markdown patches, apt-get'able at 
deb http://debian.jones.dk/ sid wikitools
+>> -- [[JonasSmedegaard]] ----- -# ACL - -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]] +>>I see the "We will post the scripts ...." was committed about a year ago. A current site search for "Moin" does not turn them up. Any chance of an appearance in the near (end of year) future? +>> +>> -- [[MichaelRasmussen]] ->> 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]] +---- ->>> 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]] +# LaTeX support? ->>>> 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]] +Moved to [[todo/latex]] --[[Joey]] ---- -Some questions about the RecentChanges function. -- Ethan +# Using with CVS? -> (Moved to [[todo/recentchanges]] --[[Joey]]) +Moved to a [[todo_item|todo/CVS_backend]]. --[[JoshTriplett]] ---- -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 +# Show differences before saving page? -> That's already available in the BASEURL parameter. --[[Joey]] +Moved to the existing [[todo_item|todo/preview_changes]]. --[[JoshTriplett]] ---- -# Canonical feed location? - -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.) +# Max submit size? -> 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]] +Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form? +-- [[JeremyReed]] ->> 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. +>>> See [[todo/fileupload]] for an idea on limiting page size. --[[Joey]] ---- -# asciidoc or txt2tags ? +# Access Keys + +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) -Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags? +> Maybe, although it would need to take the critisism at +> into account. -> 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]] +>> 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. ---- -# LaTeX support? +# Editing the style sheet. -Any plugins or support for exporting to LaTeX? -(If not could use asciidoc or txt2tags mentioned above to generated LaTeX.) +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) -> It's already [[been_requested|todo/latex]], although perhaps not -> working the way you're thinking of. Noone is currently working on it. -> --[[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 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 +>> 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. ---- -# Using with RCS? +# Should not create an existing page -Any examples of using co(1), ci(1) and other RCS related tools with ikiwiki? +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". -> 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 belive that currently it does a redirect to the new static web page. +> At least that's the intent of the code. --[[Joey]] ->> 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 +>> 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 ->> 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]]) +>>> 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]] ---- -# Using with CVS? +# User database tools? -Any examples of using ikiwiki with cvs? +Any tool to view user database? -> 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]] +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: -# Show differences before saving page? + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $_ foreach keys %$userinfo' + http://joey.kitenet.net/ + foo + +> To list each user's email address: -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? + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $userinfo->{$_}->{email} foreach keys %$userinfo' + + joey@kitenet.net -> It's doable, it could even be done by a [[todo/plugin]], I think. +> 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]] ----- +>> Thanks for these examples -- I have been using them. I don't know the +>> Storable yet. Can someone share an example of removing a user? (I now +>> setup account\_creation\_password and I have some spammer with different +>> login names that I have banned that I might as well remove from the +>> userdb.) -# Max submit size? +>>> Let's see, you could do something like this: +>>> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); delete $$userinfo{"joey"}; Storable::lock_store($userinfo, "userdb")' +>>> I suppose I should stop being lame and create a command line tool wrapping up these operations.. --[[Joey]] -Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form? --- [[JeremyReed]] +---- -> Not currently. Worried about abuse? --[[Joey]] +# Spaces in WikiLinks? ->> I didn't want it abused accidently or with malice. I was thinking that Perl's CGI.pm would handle this, but I don't see that. ->> I read that textarea max bytes may be 500 lines or 28000 characters or 30000 characters or 64kB. It seems like it ->> varies and I didn't test myself, because I guess it may depend on different clients and different HTTP servers. ->> This could be checked using javascript on the client side (before submitting) and by checking size on server side (before saving). --[[JeremyReed]] +Hello Joey, ->>> The absolute limit varies by browser. If there are web servers that ->>> also limit it, I don't know of them. --[[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? ----- +My best regards, -# Disable sub-discussion pages? +--[[Paweł|ptecza]] -> Moved to [[bugs]] -- [[Joey]] +> See [[bugs/Spaces_in_link_text_for_ikiwiki_links]] ---- -# wiki\_file\_regexp and RCS ,v files +# Build in OpenSolaris? -I have RCS ,v files in my source directory. But get many "skipping bad filename" warnings. +Moved to [[bugs/build_in_opensolaris]] --[[Joey]] -Also I don't see wiki\_file\_regexp documented. Because it is used with $config{wiki\_file\_regexp} I assume it can be set in the ikiwiki.setup. -I added a comma to it in my IkiWiki.pm in the defaultconfig(). But that was wrong (so I reverted back), because then the ,v files were copied to my www tree. +---- -What is the correct way to include ,v RCS revision files in my source tree without receiving the "bad" messages and without copying over to www tree? +# Various ways to use Subversion with ikiwiki --- [[JeremyReed]] +I'm playing around with various ways that I can use subversion with ikiwiki. -> Add the ,v to the $config{wiki_file_prune_regexps} array. This is how we -> skip equivilant files from other revision control systems too. -> --[[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. -# Textile Plugin +* 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. -It was trivial, but I put together a plugin that uses the Textile markup -language, which I find to be the most superior of the various options for -that sort of thing. Where or how do I submit it for inclusion? +--[[AdamShand]] -> You can post it to [[plugins/contrib]]. --[[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.