1 [[!meta date="2008-12-29 14:58:54 -0500"]]
3 Here's how to set up a static wiki or blog using ikiwiki with no hosting
4 fees. Everything is hosted on github, both the git repository and the web
5 site. Your laptop is used to generate and publish changes to it.
7 This is possible because github now supports
8 [github pages](http://github.com/blog/272-github-pages).
10 Note that github limits free accounts to 100 MB of git storage. It's
11 unlikely that a small wiki or blog will outgrow this, but we are keeping
12 two copies of the website in git (source and the compiled site), and all
13 historical versions too. So it could happen. If it does, you can pay github
14 for more space, or you can migrate your site elsewhere.
18 * Go to [github](http://github.com/) and sign up for an account, if you haven't already.
19 * Be sure to add your laptop's ssh key to it so you can push to github.
20 * Create a repository on github named `$YOU.github.com`, substituting your
21 *username*. This repository will be used to publish your compiled website.
22 * Create a repository on github named `$YOU` (or anything else you like).
23 This repository will be used to publish the source of your website.
24 This is actually optional.
28 * On your laptop, create two empty git repositories to correspond to the github repositories: <br />
29 `YOU=your github username here` <br />
30 `mkdir ~/$YOU.github.com` <br />
31 `cd ~/$YOU.github.com` <br />
33 `git remote add origin git@github.com:$YOU/$YOU.github.com.git` <br />
37 `git remote add origin git@github.com:$YOU/$YOU.git` <br />
38 * Add some wiki pages, such as an `index.mdwn`, to `~/$YOU`, and check them
39 in and commit them to git. You need something to push to github. Run
40 `git push origin master` to push the source pages to github.
42 ## Publishing to Github
44 * Now build your wiki with a command such as: <br />
45 `ikiwiki ~/$YOU ~/$YOU.github.com --refresh`
46 * Each time you build the wiki you will need to commit the changes
47 to git, and push the compiled pages to github: <br />
48 `cd ~/YOU.github.com` <br />
50 `git commit -a -m update` <br />
51 `git push origin master` <br />
53 Your wiki will show up at `http://$YOU.github.com/` within ten
54 minutes after the first push, and changes you push to it from then on
55 should show up immediately.
59 You can follow the instructions in [[laptop_wiki_with_git]] to set up an
60 editable version of your wiki on your laptop. Then you can use the web
61 interface for editing. You'll still need to follow the instructions above
62 to publish your changes to github.
64 It would also be possible to teach ikiwiki to push compiled pages to github
65 itself via a plugin, as was done with the [[plugins/amazon_s3]] plugin. Not