- Note that this assumes that your web server will run CGI scripts from
- your public_html directory. You might need to put it somewhere else
- depending on your web server configuration.
-
-9. Add links to the CGI to all the pages in your wiki, and update your
- post-commit hook to add such links when updating the wiki in the
- future. Note the use of the [[WrapperParamsTrick]].
-
- ikiwiki $(/svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit --params) --rebuild
- ikiwiki $(/svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit --params) \
- --cgiurl=http://host/~you/wiki/ikiwiki.cgi --wrapper
- mv ikiwiki-wrap /svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit
-
- Be sure to change the cgiurl to the actual url to the wiki.cgi you
- installed in step 9.
-
-10. Enjoy your new wiki!
+6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 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]]).
+
+7. 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.
+
+ A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from
+ `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it.
+
+ 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 git, comment out the subversion stuff, uncomment and
+ edit the git stuff.
+
+ Note that the default file has a block to configure an [[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.
+
+ When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
+ will set everything up and update your wiki.
+
+8. 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 is ok, run
+ `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
+
+9. Add [[PageHistory]] links to the top of pages. This requires you to have
+ setup a repository browser. For Subversion, you may use [[ViewCVS]] or
+ something similar to access your [[Subversion]] repository. For Git,
+ [[Gitweb]] can be used.
+
+ The `historyurl` setting makes ikiwiki add the links, and in that url,
+ "\[[file]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So edit
+ ikiwiki.setup and ucomment the appropriate `historyurl` setting and edit
+ it for your setup.
+
+ Then run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` again.
+
+10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]