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 this one:
26 Welcome to your new wiki.
27 All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], so this one does too.
29 This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net).
31 See [[HelpOnFormatting]] for details about the markup language.
33 Note that several standard wiki pages will be added to your wiki, from
34 files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/`, so your wiki will automatically
35 get a [[SandBox]], and some other useful pages.
37 4. Build your wiki for the first time.
39 ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
41 Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
42 be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
44 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
45 the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
46 `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
49 6. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
50 options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. Time to
51 introduce setup files.
53 A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from
54 `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it.
56 Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
57 ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
58 `destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by
59 hand. Make sure that these are pointing to the right directories, and
60 read through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.
62 When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
63 will set everything up.
65 7. Turn on additional features.
67 Now you have a basic wiki with a configuration file. Time to experiment
68 with ikiwiki's many features.
70 Let's first enable a key wiki feature and set up [[CGI]] to allow
71 editing the wiki from the web. Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the
72 block for the cgi wrapper, make sure the filename for the cgi wrapper
73 is ok, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
75 There are lots of other configuration options in ikiwiki.setup that you
76 can uncomment, configure, and enable by re-running
77 `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`. Be sure to browse through all the
80 8. Put your wiki in revision control.
82 At this point you might want to check your wiki in to a revision control
83 system you can get history of past changes and revert edits. Depending
84 on the revision control system you choose, the way this is done varies.
86 There's little that's ikiwiki specific about these instructions; this is
87 just how you put a directory under revision control using the various
88 systems ikiwiki supports:
92 svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
93 svn import $SRCDIR file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "initial import"
95 svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk $SRCDIR
104 git commit -m "initial import" -a
106 git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
109 REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
110 tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
111 tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
113 tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
114 tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
115 # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
116 # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
124 9. Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
126 Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system,
127 you should configure ikiwiki to use revision control. Edit your
128 ikiwiki.setup, and uncomment the lines for the revision control system
129 you chose to use. Be sure to set `svnrepo` to $REPOSITORY, if using
130 subversion. Uncomment the block for the wrapper for your revision
131 control system, and configure the wrapper path in that block
134 Once it's all set up, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` once more.
135 Now you should be able to edit files in $SRCDIR, and use your revision
136 control system to commit them, and the wiki will automatically update.
137 And in the web interface, RecentChanges should work, and files changed
138 by web users will also be committed using revision control.
140 10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]].