1 So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This turorial will walk
2 you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]] and that has
3 optional support for commits from the web.
5 1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
7 Ikiwiki requires [[MarkDown]] be installed, and also uses the following
8 perl modules: `CGI::Session` `CGI::FormBuilder` (version 3.02.02 or
9 newer) `HTML::Template` `Mail::SendMail` `Time::Duration` `Date::Parse`
10 (libtimedate-perl), `HTML::Scrubber`
12 2. Create the subversion repository for your wiki.
14 svnadmin create /svn/wikirepo
15 svn mkdir file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk -m create
17 3. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use.
19 svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
21 4. Build your wiki for the first time.
23 ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
24 --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
26 Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
27 be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
29 5. Customise your wiki. The files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/` are
30 used if you don't have a custom version, so let's start by making a
31 custom version of the wiki's index page:
33 cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn ~/wikiwc
34 svn add ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn
35 $EDITOR ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn
36 svn commit ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn -m customised
38 You can also add any files you like from scratch of course.
40 6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
41 the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
42 `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
45 7. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
46 options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. And it's
47 also getting old to have to manualy rebuild the wiki each time you
48 change a file. Time to introduce setup files.
50 A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from
51 `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it.
53 Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
54 ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir`
55 and `destdir` are the two directories you specify when
56 running ikiwiki by hand. `svnrepo` is the path to your subversion
57 repository. Make sure that all of these are pointing to the right
58 directories, and read through and configure the rest of the file to your
61 Note that the default file has a block to configure a svn wrapper. This
62 sets up a [[post-commit]] hook to update the wiki.
64 When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
65 will set everything up and update your wiki.
67 8. Set up [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web.
69 Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the block for the cgi wrapper, make
70 sure the filename for the cgi wrapper is ok, run
71 `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
73 9. Add [[PageHistory]] links to the top of pages. This requires you to have
74 setup [[ViewCVS]] or something similar to access your [[Subversion]]
75 repository. The `historyurl` setting makes ikiwiki add the links, and
76 in that url, "\[[file]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So
77 edit ikiwiki.setup and set `historyurl` to something like this:
79 `http://svn.host/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki`
81 Then run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` again.
83 10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]