1 This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
7 If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, ikiwiki is an <code><a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations">apt-get</a> install ikiwiki</code> away.
8 If you're not, see the [[download]] and [[install]] pages.
10 You may also want to try out a sandboxed [[Docker image|https://github.com/dgsb/docker-ikiwiki]]
11 with ikiwiki pre-installed which will use a volume to access a local git repository
16 All it takes to create a fully functional wiki using ikiwiki is running
18 [[!template id=note text="""
19 For more control, advanced users may prefer to set up a wiki
23 % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
25 Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead.
27 % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup
29 `librpc-xml-perl` and `python-docutils` dependencies are needed.
31 Either way, it will ask you a couple of questions.
33 What will the wiki be named? foo
34 What revision control system to use? git
35 What wiki user (or openid) will be admin? joey
38 Then, wait for it to tell you an url for your new site..
40 Successfully set up foo:
41 url: http://example.com/~joey/foo
43 destdir: ~/public_html/foo
45 To modify settings, edit ~/foo.setup and then run:
46 ikiwiki --setup ~/foo.setup
50 ## Using the web interface
52 Now you can go to the url it told you, and edit pages in your new wiki
53 using the web interface.
55 (If the web interface doesn't seem to allow editing or login, you may
56 need to [[configure_the_web_server|tips/dot_cgi]].)
58 ## Checkout and edit wiki source
60 Part of the fun of using ikiwiki is not being limited to using the
61 web for editing pages, and instead using your favorite text editor and
62 [[Revision_Control_System|rcs]].
64 To do this, you need to check out a copy of the source to your wiki.
65 (You should avoid making changes directly to the `srcdir`, as that
66 checkout is reserved for use by ikiwiki itself.)
68 Depending on which [[Revision_Control_System|rcs]] you chose to use,
69 you can run one of these commands to check out your own copy of your wiki's
70 source. (Remember to replace "foo" with the real directory name.)
72 git clone foo.git foo.src
73 svn checkout file://`pwd`/foo.svn/trunk foo.src
74 cvs -d `pwd`/foo get -P ikiwiki
77 darcs get foo.darcs foo.src
80 Now to edit pages by hand, go into the directory you checked out (ie,
81 "foo.src"), and fire up your text editor to edit `index.mdwn` or whatever
82 other page you want to edit. If you chose to set up a blog, there is even a
83 sample first post in `posts/first_post.mdwn` that you can edit.
85 Once you've edited a page, use your revision control system to commit
86 the changes. For distributed revision control systems, don't forget to push
89 Once the commit reaches the repository, ikiwiki will notice it, and
90 automatically update the wiki with your changes.
92 ## Customizing the wiki
94 There are lots of things you can configure to customize your wiki.
95 These range from changing the wiki's name, to enabling [[plugins]],
96 to banning users and locking pages.
98 If you log in as the admin user you configured earlier, and go to
99 your Preferences page, you can click on "Setup" to customize many
100 wiki settings and plugins.
102 Some settings cannot be configured on the web, for security reasons or
103 because misconfiguring them could break the wiki. To change these settings,
104 you can manually edit the setup file, which is named something like
105 "foo.setup". The file lists all available configuration settings
106 and gives a brief description of each.
108 After making changes to this file, you need to tell ikiwiki to use it:
110 % ikiwiki --setup foo.setup
112 Alternatively, you can ask ikiwiki to change settings in the file for you:
114 % ikiwiki --changesetup foo.setup --plugin goodstuff
116 See [[usage]] for more options.
118 ## Customizing file locations
120 As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
121 and outputs the files to a destination directory. The source directory is
122 a working copy checked out from the version control system repository.
124 When you used `auto.setup`, ikiwiki put the source directory, destination
125 directory, and repository in your home directory, and told you the location
126 of each. Those locations were chosen to work without customization, but you
127 might want to move them to different directories.
129 First, move the destination directory and repository around.
131 % mv public_html/foo /srv/web/foo.com
132 % mv foo.git /srv/git/foo.git
134 If you moved the repository to a new location, checkouts pointing at the
135 old location won't work, and the easiest way to deal with this is to delete
136 them and re-checkout from the new repository location.
139 % git clone /srv/git/foo.git
141 Finally, edit the setup file. Modify the settings for `srcdir`, `destdir`,
142 `url`, `cgiurl`, `cgi_wrapper`, `git_wrapper`, etc to reflect where
143 you moved things. Remember to run `ikiwiki --setup` after editing the
146 ## Enjoy your new wiki!
148 Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]. And check out
149 the [[tips]] to find out how to get more out of ikiwiki.
155 - If you are searching for the file where the users are stored, it's in `your_repository/.ikiwiki/userdb`. The one which is in YOUR REPOSITORY, it cannot be found into your `~/.ikiwiki`.
156 - If you want to enable a plugin you **WILL HAVE** to add it to the `add_plugins` array in the `*.setup` file (or to use the `--plugin` switch while calling `ikiwiki`). Uncommenting the plugin options/configuration fields in the setup is not **ALWAYS** sufficient. You have been warned.