-So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This tutorial will walk
-you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]], [[Git]],
-[[TLA]] or [[Mercurial]], and that has optional support for commits from the web.
+This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
-1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
+1. [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki.
2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
- Pick three directories for respectively the repository (contains
- the "master copy" and history); working copy (checked-out
- files from the repository); and web pages (served by the web server).
+ As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
+ and outputs the files to a destination directory. If you keep your wiki in
+ a version control system, the source directory will contain a working copy
+ checked out from the version control system.
For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
- REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
- SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
- DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
-
-3. Create the master rcs repository for your wiki.
-
- # Subversion
- svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
- svn mkdir file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m create
-
- # Git
- mkdir $REPOSITORY
- cd $REPOSITORY
- git init-db
- # Git requires something be in the repo to start with.
- cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
- git add .
- git commit -m create -a
- # No need to keep files in the master repository; so at this
- # stage, you may want to remove all files (except .git) to
- # save disk space.
-
- # TLA
- mkdir $REPOSITORY
- tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
- tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
-
- # Mercurial
- hg init $REPOSITORY
-
-4. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use
- as its source directory.
-
- # Subversion
- svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk ~/wikiwc
-
- # Git
- # Create a local clone to save disk space and also to
- # optimize performance. See git-clone(1).
- git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
-
- # TLA
- mkdir $SRCDIR
- cd $SRCDIR
- tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
- tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
- # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
- # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
- tla import
-
- # Mercurial
- # Mercurial uses a single repo approach, so no need to
- # clone anything. Because the following examples
- # refer to $SRCDIR, we symlink it:
- ln -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
-
-5. Build your wiki for the first time.
-
- ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
+ SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
+ DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
+
+ Note that ikiwiki owns the working copy directory; do not perform your own
+ edits in ikiwiki's working copy.
+
+3. Create the beginnings of your wiki.
+
+ This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
+
+ mkdir $SRCDIR
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ $EDITOR index.mdwn
+
+ In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like
+ [[toggle id=page text="this one"]].
+
+ [[toggleable id=page text="""
+ Welcome to your new wiki.
+ All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]],
+ so this one does too.
+ ----
+ This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info).
+ """]]
+
+ See [[HelpOnFormatting]] for details about the markup language.
+
+ Note that several [[standard_wiki_pages|basewiki]] will be added to your
+ wiki, from files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/`, so your wiki will
+ automatically get a [[SandBox]], and some other useful pages.
+
+4. Build your wiki for the first time.
+
+ ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/
Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
-6. Customise your wiki. The files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/` are
- used if you don't have a custom version, so let's start by making a
- custom version of the wiki's index page:
-
- cd $SRCDIR
- cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
- $EDITOR index.mdwn
-
- # Subversion
- svn add index.mdwn
- svn commit -m customised index.mdwn
-
- # Git
- git add index.mdwn
- git commit -m customised index.mdwn
- git push origin
-
- # TLA
- tla add index.mdwn
- tla commit
-
- # Mercurial
- hg add index.mdwn
- hg commit -m customised index.mdwn
-
- You can also add any files you like from scratch of course. Use the same
- command as in step 5 to rebuild the wiki.
-
-7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
- the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
- `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
- (see [[usage]]).
-
-8. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
- options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. And it's
- also getting old to have to manualy rebuild the wiki each time you
- change a file. Time to introduce setup files.
+5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
+ the wiki.
+
+ To quickly get started on a common task like blogging with ikiwiki, you
+ can copy in files from the [[examples]]. The examples are located in
+ `doc/examples/` in the ikiwiki source package.
+
+ You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as `--wikiname`
+ and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see
+ [[usage]]).
+
+6. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
+ options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. Time to
+ introduce setup files.
A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from
- `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it.
+ `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it. Note that this
+ file should *not* be put in your wiki's directory with the rest of the
+ files. A good place to put it is in a ~/.ikiwiki/ subdirectory.
Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
`destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by
- hand. `svnrepo` is the path to your subversion repository. Make sure
- that all of these are pointing to the right directories, and read
- through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.
-
- If you want to use something other than subversion, comment out the
- subversion configuration, and uncomment and edit the configuration for
- your chosen RCS. Note that the default file has a block to configure a
- [[post-commit]] wrapper to update the wiki. You need to uncomment the
- related block for whatever RCS you use and comment out the other rcs
- blocks.
+ hand. Make sure that these are pointing to the right directories, and
+ read through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.
When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
- will set everything up and update your wiki.
+ will set everything up.
-9. Turn on additional features.
+7. Turn on additional features.
Now you have a basic wiki with a configuration file. Time to experiment
with ikiwiki's many features.
`ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`. Be sure to browse through all the
[[plugins]]..
-10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]].
+8. Put your wiki in revision control.
+
+ At this point you might want to check your wiki in to a revision control
+ system you can get history of past changes and revert edits. Depending
+ on the revision control system you choose, the way this is done varies.
+
+ There's little that's ikiwiki specific about these instructions; this is
+ just how you put a directory under revision control using the various
+ systems that ikiwiki supports. Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is
+ where ikiwiki keeps its state, and should be preserved, but not checked
+ into revision control.
+
+ [[toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
+ [[toggleable id=subversion text="""
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
+ svn mkdir file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "create trunk"
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk .
+ svn add *
+ svn commit -m "initial import"
+ """]]
+
+ [[toggle id=git text="Git"]]
+ [[toggleable id=git text="""
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ mkdir $REPOSITORY
+ cd $REPOSITORY
+ git init-db
+ cp -a $SRCDIR/* .
+ git add .
+ git commit -m "initial import" -a
+ mv $SRCDIR/.ikiwiki .
+ rm -rf $SRCDIR
+ git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
+ """]]
+
+ [[toggle id=tla text="TLA"]]
+ [[toggleable id=tla text="""
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
+ tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
+ tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
+ # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
+ # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
+ tla add *
+ tla import
+ """]]
+
+ [[toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]]
+ [[toggleable id=mercurial text="""
+ REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
+ hg init $REPOSITORY
+ cd $REPOSITORY
+ hg add *
+ hg commit -m "initial import"
+ """]]
+
+9. Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
+
+ Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system,
+ you should configure ikiwiki to use revision control. Edit your
+ ikiwiki.setup, and uncomment the lines for the revision control system
+ you chose to use. Be sure to set `svnrepo` to $REPOSITORY, if using
+ subversion. Uncomment the block for the wrapper for your revision
+ control system, and configure the wrapper path in that block
+ appropriately.
+
+ Once it's all set up, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` once more.
+ Now you should be able to edit files in $SRCDIR, and use your revision
+ control system to commit them, and the wiki will automatically update.
+ And in the web interface, RecentChanges should work, and files changed
+ by web users will also be committed using revision control.
+
+10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]. And check out
+ [[tips]] to find out how to get more out of ikiwiki.