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
+
+If you'd like to set up a wiki now, and learn more later, just run this command
+and answer a couple of questions.
+
+ % 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!
+
+(If the CGI doesn't seem to let you edit pages, you might need to
+[[configure_apache|apache_cgi]]).)
+
## Decide where your wiki's files will go.
As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
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. 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.
+
+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.
+
+ ikiwiki $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/ --dumpsetup ikiwiki.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
## Turn on additional features.
-Now you have a basic wiki with a configuration file. Time to experiment
+Now you have a basic wiki with a setup file. Time to experiment
with ikiwiki's many features.
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
-block for the cgi wrapper, make sure the filename for the cgi wrapper
+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
Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is where ikiwiki keeps its state, and
should be preserved, but not checked into revision control.
-The new [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] command automates setting up a wiki in
+The [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] command automates setting up a wiki in
revision control.
[[!toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
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
+ikiwiki.setup, set `rcs` to the the revision control system
you chose to use. Be sure to set `svnrepo` to $REPOSITORY, if using
-subversion. Uncomment the block for the wrapper for your revision
-control system, and configure the wrapper path in that block
-appropriately (for Git, it should be `$REPOSITORY/hooks/post-update`).
+subversion. Uncomment the configuration for the wrapper for your revision
+control system, and configure the wrapper path appropriately
+(for Git, it should be `$REPOSITORY/hooks/post-update`).
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