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
21 # No need to keep files in the master repository; so at this
22 # stage, you may want to remove all files (except .git) to
27 tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki /tla/wikirepo
28 tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
33 3. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use.
36 svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
39 # Create a local clone to save disk space and also to
40 # optimize performance. See git-clone(1).
41 git clone -l -s /git/wikirepo ~/wikiwc
46 tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
47 tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
48 # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
49 # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
53 # Mercurial uses a single repo approach, so no need to
54 # clone anything. Because the following examples
55 # refer to the ~/wikiwc working copy we symlink it:
56 ln -s /hg/wikirepo ~/wikiwc
58 4. Build your wiki for the first time.
60 ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
61 --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
63 Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
64 be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
66 5. Customise your wiki. The files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/` are
67 used if you don't have a custom version, so let's start by making a
68 custom version of the wiki's index page:
71 cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
76 svn commit -m customised index.mdwn
80 git commit -m customised index.mdwn
89 hg commit -m customised index.mdwn
91 You can also add any files you like from scratch of course.
93 6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
94 the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
95 `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
98 7. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
99 options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. And it's
100 also getting old to have to manualy rebuild the wiki each time you
101 change a file. Time to introduce setup files.
103 A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from
104 `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it.
106 Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
107 ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
108 `destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by
109 hand. `svnrepo` is the path to your subversion repository. Make sure
110 that all of these are pointing to the right directories, and read
111 through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.
113 If you want to use something other than subversion, comment out the
114 subversion configuration, and uncomment and edit the configuration for
117 Note that the default file has a block to configure an [[post-commit]]
118 wrapper to update the wiki. You need to uncomment the related block for
119 whatever RCS you use and comment out the other rcs blocks.
121 When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
122 will set everything up and update your wiki.
124 8. Set up [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web.
126 Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the block for the cgi wrapper, make
127 sure the filename for the cgi wrapper is ok, run
128 `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
130 9. Add [[PageHistory]] links to the top of pages. This requires you to have
131 setup a repository browser. For Subversion, you may use [[ViewCVS]] or
132 something similar to access your [[Subversion]] repository. For Git,
133 [[Gitweb]] can be used, etc.
135 The `historyurl` setting makes ikiwiki add the links, and in that url,
136 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So edit
137 ikiwiki.setup and ucomment the appropriate `historyurl` setting and edit
140 Then run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` again.
142 10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]