1 These are some notes on installing ikiwiki on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I have a three year old machine with a lot of stuff on it so it took quite a while, YMMV.
3 The best part of installing ikiwiki was learning how to use git. I never used source control before but its pretty slick.
8 cd /opt/ikiwiki/install
10 curl http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-(latest version).tar.gz -O
12 tar xzvf git-(latest version).tar.gz
14 cd git-(latest version)
16 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
18 make prefix=/usr/local all
23 git config --global user.name "firstname lastname"
25 git config --global user.email "email here"
27 git config --global color.ui "auto"
30 curl http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.7.3.1.tar.gz | sudo tar -xzC /usr/local/share/man/
33 ## installing ikiwiki:
34 I had terrible trouble installing ikiwiki. It turned out I had accidentally installed Perl through ports. Uninstalling that made everything install nicely.
35 I got an error on msgfmt. Turns out this is a program in gettext. I installed that and it fixed the error.
39 git clone git://git.ikiwiki.info/
43 perl Makefile.PL LIB=/Library/Perl/5.10.0
49 when you make ikiwiki it gives you a .git folder with the ikiwiki files. Stay out of this folder. You want to learn how to create a clone and make all your changes in the clone. When you push the changes ikiwiki will update. I moved a file in this folder by accident because I named my working file the same and I couldn't get into the setup page. I had apparently messed up my ikiwiki git repository. I did a pull into my clone, deleted the repository and webserver/ cgi folders and ran a new setup. Then I did a git clone and dragged all my old files into the new clone. Did the git dance and did git push. Then the angels sang.
52 ## using git from inside a git folder:
54 start with git clone, then learn to do the git dance like this.
58 make your changes to your clone
60 git commit -a -m "message here"
65 When you can't get into the setup page or you get strange behavior after a setup update the Utilities > Console app is your friend.
69 cd ../git-1.7.3.1/gitweb
71 make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/opt/ikiwiki/" GITWEB_CSS="/gitweb.css" GITWEB_LOGO="/git-logo.png" GITWEB_FAVICON="/git-favicon.png"
73 cp gitweb.cgi /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/
75 cp /usr/local/share/gitweb/static/git-favicon.png /Library/WebServer/Documents/
77 cp /usr/local/share/gitweb/static/git-logo.png /Library/WebServer/Documents/
79 cp /usr/local/share/gitweb/static/gitweb.css /Library/WebServer/Documents/
81 cp /usr/local/share/gitweb/static/gitweb.js /Library/WebServer/Documents/
84 sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/gitweb.cgi
86 sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/Documents/git-favicon.png
88 sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/Documents/git-logo.png
90 sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/Documents/gitweb.css
92 sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/Documents/gitweb.js
97 download xapian and omega
99 I needed pcre: sudo ports install pcre
110 I had a build error do to libiconv undefined symbols. sudo port deactivate libiconv took care of it. After install I had trouble with ikiwiki so I did a sudo port install libiconv and ikiwiki came back.
119 ## installing Search::Xapian from CPAN
121 for some reason this wouldn't install using CPAN console so I went to CPAN online and downloaded the source.
131 it installed without issue so I'm baffled why it didn't install from command line.
136 _ Ikiwiki setup automator.
138 _ This setup file causes ikiwiki to create a wiki, check it into revision
139 _ control, generate a setup file for the new wiki, and set everything up.
141 _ Just run: ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
143 _By default, it asks a few questions, and confines itself to the user's home
144 _directory. You can edit it to change what it asks questions about, or to
145 _modify the values to use site-specific settings.
146 require IkiWiki::Setup::Automator;
148 our $wikiname="your wiki";
149 our $wikiname_short="yourwiki";
151 our $admin="your name";
152 use Net::Domain q{hostfqdn};
153 our $domain="your.domain";
155 IkiWiki::Setup::Automator->import(
156 wikiname => $wikiname,
157 adminuser => [$admin],
159 srcdir => "/opt/ikiwiki/$wikiname_short",
160 destdir => "/Library/WebServer/Documents/$wikiname_short",
161 repository => "/opt/ikiwiki/$wikiname_short.".($rcs eq "monotone" ? "mtn" : $rcs),
162 dumpsetup => "/opt/ikiwiki/$wikiname_short.setup",
163 url => "http://$domain/$wikiname_short",
164 cgiurl => "http://$domain/cgi-bin/$wikiname_short/ikiwiki.cgi",
165 cgi_wrapper => "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/$wikiname_short/ikiwiki.cgi",
166 adminemail => "your\@email.com",
167 add_plugins => [qw{goodstuff websetup}],
168 disable_plugins => [qw{}],
169 libdir => "/opt/ikiwiki/.ikiwiki",
176 ## turning on search plugin:
178 I turned on the plugin from the setup page in ikiwiki but it gave an error when I went to search. Error "Error: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/omega/omega failed: No such file or directory".
179 I did a "find / -name "omega" -print" and found the omega program in "/usr/local/lib/xapian-omega/bin/omega".
181 Then I went into the 2wiki.setup file and replaced the bad path, updated and badda-boom badda-bing.