1 This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki,
2 doing everything by hand. [[Setup]] has an easier method, but with less
7 ## Decide where your wiki's files will go.
9 As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
10 and outputs the files to a destination directory. If you keep your wiki in
11 a version control system, the source directory will contain a working copy
12 checked out from the version control system.
14 For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
15 for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
18 DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
20 Note that ikiwiki owns the working copy directory; do not perform your own
21 edits in ikiwiki's working copy.
23 ## Create the beginnings of your wiki.
25 This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
31 In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like
32 [[!toggle id=page text="this one"]].
33 [[!toggleable id=page text="""
34 Welcome to your new wiki.
36 All wikis are supposed to have a \[[SandBox]],
41 This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info).
44 See [[ikiwiki/formatting]] for details about the markup language.
46 Note that several [[standard_wiki_pages|basewiki]] will be added to your
47 wiki, from files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/`, so your wiki will
48 automatically get a [[SandBox]], and some other useful pages.
50 ## Build your wiki for the first time.
52 ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/
54 Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
55 be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
57 ## Add content to your wiki.
59 Continue editing or adding pages and rebuilding the wiki.
61 To quickly get started on a common task like blogging with ikiwiki, you
62 can copy in files from the [[examples]]. The examples are located in
63 `doc/examples/` in the ikiwiki source package.
65 You can experiment with other ikiwiki parameters such as `--wikiname`
66 and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see
71 By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
72 options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. Time to
73 introduce setup files.
75 To generate a setup file, use `ikiwiki --dumpsetup`. You can pass
76 all the options have you been including at the command line, and they
77 will be stored in the setup file.
79 ikiwiki $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/ --dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup
81 Note that this file should *not* be put in your wiki's directory with
82 the rest of the files. A good place to put it is in a ~/.ikiwiki/
85 Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
86 ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
87 `destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by
88 hand. Make sure that these are pointing to the right directories, and
89 read through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.
91 When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
92 will set everything up.
94 ## Turn on additional features.
96 Now you have a basic wiki with a setup file. Time to experiment
97 with ikiwiki's many features.
99 Let's first enable a key wiki feature and set up [[CGI]] to allow
100 editing the wiki from the web. Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the
101 settings for the `cgi_wrapper`, make sure the filename for the cgi wrapper
102 is ok, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
104 There are lots of other configuration options in ikiwiki.setup that you
105 can uncomment, configure, and enable by re-running
106 `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`. Be sure to browse through all the
109 ## Put your wiki in revision control.
111 At this point you might want to check your wiki in to a revision control
112 system so you can keep track of changes and revert edits. Depending
113 on the revision control system you choose, the way this is done varies.
115 Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is where ikiwiki keeps its state, and
116 should be preserved, but not checked into revision control.
118 The [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] command automates setting up a wiki in
121 [[!toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
122 [[!toggleable id=subversion text="""
123 REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
124 ikiwiki-makerepo svn $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
127 [[!toggle id=git text="Git"]]
128 [[!toggleable id=git text="""
129 REPOSITORY=~/wiki.git
130 ikiwiki-makerepo git $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
132 Please see [[rcs/git]] for detailed documentation about how
133 ikiwiki uses git repositories, and some important caveats
134 about using the git repositories.
137 [[!toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]]
138 [[!toggleable id=mercurial text="""
140 ikiwiki-makerepo mercurial $SRCDIR
143 [[!toggle id=bazaar text="Bazaar"]]
144 [[!toggleable id=bazaar text="""
146 ikiwiki-makerepo bzr $SRCDIR
149 [[!toggle id=tla text="TLA"]]
150 [[!toggleable id=tla text="""
151 REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
152 tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
153 tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
155 tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
156 tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
157 # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
158 # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
163 [[!toggle id=monotone text="Monotone"]]
164 [[!toggleable id=monotone text="""
165 # This assumes that you have already used "mtn genkey you@hostname".
166 REPOSITORY=~/wiki.monotone
167 ikiwiki-makerepo monotone $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
170 ## Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
172 Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system, you should
173 configure ikiwiki to use revision control. Edit your ikiwiki.setup, set
174 `rcs` to the the revision control system you chose to use. Be careful,
175 you may need to use the 'fullname'. For example, 'hg' doesn't work, you
176 should use mercurial. Be sure to set `svnrepo` to the directory for your
177 repository, if using subversion. Uncomment the configuration for the wrapper
178 for your revision control system, and configure the wrapper path appropriately
179 (for Git, it should be the path to `hooks/post-update` inside the bare git repository).
181 Once it's all set up, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` once more.
182 Now you should be able to edit files in $SRCDIR, and use your revision
183 control system to commit them, and the wiki will automatically update.
184 And in the web interface, RecentChanges should work, and files changed
185 by web users will also be committed using revision control.
187 ## Enjoy your new wiki!
189 Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]. And check out
190 the [[tips]] to find out how to get more out of ikiwiki.