1 This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
3 1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
5 2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
7 As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source
8 directory, and outputs the files to a destination directory.
10 For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
11 for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
14 DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
16 3. Create the beginnings of your wiki.
18 This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
24 In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like
25 [[toggle id=page text="this one"]].
27 [[toggleable id=page text="""
28 Welcome to your new wiki.
29 All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]],
32 This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net).
35 See [[HelpOnFormatting]] for details about the markup language.
37 Note that several standard wiki pages will be added to your wiki, from
38 files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/`, so your wiki will automatically
39 get a [[SandBox]], and some other useful pages.
41 4. Build your wiki for the first time.
43 ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
45 Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
46 be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
48 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
49 the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
50 `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
53 6. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
54 options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. Time to
55 introduce setup files.
57 A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from
58 `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it.
60 Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
61 ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
62 `destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by
63 hand. Make sure that these are pointing to the right directories, and
64 read through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.
66 When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
67 will set everything up.
69 7. Turn on additional features.
71 Now you have a basic wiki with a configuration file. Time to experiment
72 with ikiwiki's many features.
74 Let's first enable a key wiki feature and set up [[CGI]] to allow
75 editing the wiki from the web. Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the
76 block for the cgi wrapper, make sure the filename for the cgi wrapper
77 is ok, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
79 There are lots of other configuration options in ikiwiki.setup that you
80 can uncomment, configure, and enable by re-running
81 `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`. Be sure to browse through all the
84 8. Put your wiki in revision control.
86 At this point you might want to check your wiki in to a revision control
87 system you can get history of past changes and revert edits. Depending
88 on the revision control system you choose, the way this is done varies.
90 There's little that's ikiwiki specific about these instructions; this is
91 just how you put a directory under revision control using the various
92 systems that ikiwiki supports.
94 [[toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
95 [[toggleable id=subversion text="""
97 svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
98 svn import $SRCDIR file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "initial import"
100 svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk $SRCDIR
103 [[toggle id=git text="Git"]]
104 [[toggleable id=git text="""
105 REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
111 git commit -m "initial import" -a
113 git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
116 [[toggle id=tla text="TLA"]]
117 [[toggleable id=tla text="""
118 REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
119 tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
120 tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
122 tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
123 tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
124 # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
125 # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
130 [[toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]]
131 [[toggleable id=mercurial text="""
136 9. Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
138 Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system,
139 you should configure ikiwiki to use revision control. Edit your
140 ikiwiki.setup, and uncomment the lines for the revision control system
141 you chose to use. Be sure to set `svnrepo` to $REPOSITORY, if using
142 subversion. Uncomment the block for the wrapper for your revision
143 control system, and configure the wrapper path in that block
146 Once it's all set up, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` once more.
147 Now you should be able to edit files in $SRCDIR, and use your revision
148 control system to commit them, and the wiki will automatically update.
149 And in the web interface, RecentChanges should work, and files changed
150 by web users will also be committed using revision control.
152 10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]].