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-## [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki.
+## Install ikiwiki
If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, ikiwiki is an `apt-get install ikiwiki` away.
If you're not, see the [[download]] and [[install]] pages.
-## Quick start
+## Create your wiki
-If you'd like to set up a wiki now, and learn more later, and you have
-ikiwiki 2.60 or better installed, just run this command and answer a couple
-of questions.
+All it takes to create a fully functional wiki using ikiwiki is running
+one command.
+[[!template id=note text="""
+For more control, advanced users may prefer to set up a wiki
+[[by_hand|byhand]].
+"""]]
% ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
- What will the wiki be named? mywiki
- What revision control system to use? git
- What wiki user (or openid) will be wiki admin? joey
-Wait for it to tell you an url for your new wiki.. Done!
+Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead.
-(If the CGI doesn't seem to let you edit pages, you might need to
-[[configure_apache|tips/apache_cgi]] or [[configure_lighttpd|tips/lighttpd_cgi]].)
+ % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup
-## Decide where your wiki's files will go.
-
-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.
+Either way, it will ask you a couple of questions.
-For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
-for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
+ What will the wiki be named? foo
+ What revision control system to use? git
+ What wiki user (or openid) will be admin? joey
+ Choose a password:
- SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
- DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
+Then, wait for it to tell you an url for your new site..
-Note that ikiwiki owns the working copy directory; do not perform your own
-edits in ikiwiki's working copy.
+ Successfully set up foo:
+ url: http://example.com/~joey/foo
+ srcdir: ~/foo
+ destdir: ~/public_html/foo
+ repository: ~/foo.git
+ To modify settings, edit ~/foo.setup and then run:
+ ikiwiki -setup ~/foo.setup
-## Create the beginnings of your wiki.
+Done!
-This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
+## Using the web interface
- mkdir $SRCDIR
- cd $SRCDIR
- $EDITOR index.mdwn
+Now you can go to the url it told you, and edit pages in your new wiki
+using the web interface.
-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.
+(If the web interface doesn't seem to allow editing or login, you may
+need to configure [[configure_the_web_server|tips/dot_cgi]].)
- All wikis are supposed to have a \[[SandBox]],
- so this one does too.
+## Checkout and edit wiki source
- ----
+Part of the fun of using ikiwiki is not being limited to using the
+web for editing pages, and instead using your favorite text editor and
+[[Revision_Control_System|rcs]].
- This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info).
-"""]]
-
-See [[ikiwiki/formatting]] for details about the markup language.
+To do this, you need to check out a copy of the source to your wiki.
+(You should avoid making changes directly to the `srcdir`, as that
+checkout is reserved for use by ikiwiki itself.)
-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.
+Depending on which [[Revision_Control_System|rcs]] you chose to use,
+you can run one of these commands to check out your own copy of your wiki's
+source. (Remember to replace "foo" with the real directory name.)
-## Build your wiki for the first time.
+ git clone foo.git foo.src
+ svn checkout file://`pwd`/foo.svn/trunk foo.src
+ bzr clone foo foo.src
+ hg clone foo foo.src
+ # TODO monotone, tla
- ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/
+Now to edit pages by hand, go into the directory you checked out (ie,
+"foo.src"), and fire up your text editor to edit `index.mdwn` or whatever
+other page you want to edit. If you chose to set up a blog, there is even a
+sample first post in `posts/first_post.mdwn` that you can edit.
-Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
-be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
+Once you've edited a page, use your revision control system to commit
+the changes. For distributed revision control systems, don't forget to push
+your commit.
-## Add content to your wiki.
+Once the commit reaches the repository, ikiwiki will notice it, and
+automatically update the wiki with your changes.
-Continue 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.
+## Customizing the wiki
-You can experiment with other ikiwiki parameters such as `--wikiname`
-and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see
-[[usage]]).
+There are lots of things you can configure to customize your wiki.
+These range from changing the wiki's name, to enabling [[plugins]],
+to banning users and locking pages.
-## Add a setup file.
+If you log in as the admin user you configured earlier, and go to
+your Preferences page, you can click on "Wiki Setup" to customize many
+wiki settings and plugins.
-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.
+Some settings cannot be configured on the web, for security reasons or
+because misconfiguring them could break the wiki. To change these settings,
+you can manually edit the setup file, which is named something like
+"foo.setup". The file lists all available configuration settings
+and gives a brief description of each.
-To generate a setup file, use `ikiwiki --dumpsetup`. You can pass
-all the options have you been including at the command line, and they
-will be stored in the setup file.
+After making changes to this file, you need to tell ikiwiki to use it:
- ikiwiki $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/ --dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup
+ % ikiwiki -setup foo.setup
-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. Make sure that these are pointing to the right directories, and
-read through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.
+## Customizing file locations
-When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
-will set everything up.
+As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
+and outputs the files to a destination directory. The source directory is
+a working copy checked out from the version control system repository.
-## Turn on additional features.
+When you used `auto.setup`, ikiwiki put the source directory, destination
+directory, and repository in your home directory, and told you the location
+of each. Those locations were chosen to work without customization, but you
+might want to move them to different directories.
-Now you have a basic wiki with a setup file. Time to experiment
-with ikiwiki's many features.
+First, move the destination directory and repository around.
-Let's first enable a key wiki feature and set up [[CGI]] to allow
-editing the wiki from the web. Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the
-settings for the `cgi_wrapper`, make sure the filename for the cgi wrapper
-is ok, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
-
-There are lots of other configuration options in ikiwiki.setup that you
-can uncomment, configure, and enable by re-running
-`ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`. Be sure to browse through all the
-[[plugins]]..
-
-## Put your wiki in revision control.
-
-At this point you might want to check your wiki in to a revision control
-system so you can keep track of changes and revert edits. Depending
-on the revision control system you choose, the way this is done varies.
-
-Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is where ikiwiki keeps its state, and
-should be preserved, but not checked into revision control.
+ % mv public_html/foo /srv/web/foo.com
+ % mv foo.git /srv/git/foo.git
-The [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] command automates setting up a wiki in
-revision control.
-
-[[!toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
-[[!toggleable id=subversion text="""
- REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
- ikiwiki-makerepo svn $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
-"""]]
-
-[[!toggle id=git text="Git"]]
-[[!toggleable id=git text="""
- REPOSITORY=~/wiki.git
- ikiwiki-makerepo git $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
-
-Please see [[rcs/git]] for detailed documentation about how
-ikiwiki uses git repositories, and some important caveats
-about using the git repositories.
-"""]]
-
-[[!toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]]
-[[!toggleable id=mercurial text="""
- REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
- ikiwiki-makerepo mercurial $SRCDIR
-"""]]
-
-[[!toggle id=bazaar text="Bazaar"]]
-[[!toggleable id=bazaar text="""
- REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
- ikiwiki-makerepo bzr $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=monotone text="Monotone"]]
-[[!toggleable id=monotone text="""
- # This assumes that you have already used "mtn genkey you@hostname".
- REPOSITORY=~/wiki.monotone
- ikiwiki-makerepo monotone $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
-"""]]
+If you moved the repository to a new location, checkouts pointing at the
+old location won't work, and the easiest way to deal with this is to delete
+them and re-checkout from the new repository location.
+
+ % rm -rf foo
+ % git clone /src/git/foo.git
-## 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, set
-`rcs` to the the revision control system you chose to use. Be sure to set
-`svnrepo` to the directory for your repository, if using subversion.
-Uncomment the configuration for the wrapper for your revision control
-system, and configure the wrapper path appropriately (for Git, it should be
-the path to `hooks/post-update` inside the bare git repository).
-
-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.
+Finally, edit the setup file. Modify the settings for `srcdir`, `destdir`,
+`url`, `cgiurl`, `cgi_wrapper`, `git_wrapper`, etc to reflect where
+you moved things. Remember to run `ikiwiki -setup` after editing the
+setup file.
## Enjoy your new wiki!