1 So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This tutorial will walk
2 you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]], [[Git]],
3 [[TLA]] or [[Mercurial]], and that has optional support for commits from the web.
5 1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
7 2. Create the master rcs repository for your wiki.
10 svnadmin create /svn/wikirepo
11 svn mkdir file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk -m create
17 # Git requires something be in the repo to start with.
18 cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
20 git commit -m create -a
24 tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki /tla/wikirepo
25 tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
26 # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
27 # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
32 3. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use.
35 svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
38 git clone /git/wikirepo ~/wikiwc
43 tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
44 tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
48 # Mercurial uses a single repo approach, so no need to
49 # clone anything. Because the following examples
50 # refer to the ~/wikiwc working copy we symlink it:
51 ln -s /hg/wikirepo ~/wikiwc
53 4. Build your wiki for the first time.
55 ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
56 --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
58 Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
59 be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
61 5. Customise your wiki. The files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/` are
62 used if you don't have a custom version, so let's start by making a
63 custom version of the wiki's index page:
66 cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
71 svn commit -m customised index.mdwn
75 git commit -m customised index.mdwn
84 hg commit -m customised index.mdwn
86 You can also add any files you like from scratch of course.
88 6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
89 the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
90 `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
93 7. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
94 options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. And it's
95 also getting old to have to manualy rebuild the wiki each time you
96 change a file. Time to introduce setup files.
98 A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from
99 `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it.
101 Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
102 ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
103 `destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by
104 hand. `svnrepo` is the path to your subversion repository. Make sure
105 that all of these are pointing to the right directories, and read
106 through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.
108 If you want to use something other than subversion, comment out the
109 subversion configuration, and uncomment and edit the configuration for
112 Note that the default file has a block to configure an [[post-commit]]
113 wrapper to update the wiki. You need to uncomment the related block for
114 whatever RCS you use and comment out the other rcs blocks.
116 When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
117 will set everything up and update your wiki.
119 8. Set up [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web.
121 Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the block for the cgi wrapper, make
122 sure the filename for the cgi wrapper is ok, run
123 `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
125 9. Add [[PageHistory]] links to the top of pages. This requires you to have
126 setup a repository browser. For Subversion, you may use [[ViewCVS]] or
127 something similar to access your [[Subversion]] repository. For Git,
128 [[Gitweb]] can be used, etc.
130 The `historyurl` setting makes ikiwiki add the links, and in that url,
131 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So edit
132 ikiwiki.setup and ucomment the appropriate `historyurl` setting and edit
135 Then run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` again.
137 10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]