svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
-4. Create some files and add them into subversion.
+4. Create some files and add them into subversion. Or you might copy the
+ files from /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki and check those in to get a
+ head start on creating your wiki.
echo "Welcome to my empty wiki." > ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn
echo "Feel free to edit this page" > ~/wikiwc/sandbox.mdwn
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 too. Get confortable with its command line.
+ `--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
9. Add [[PageHistory]] links to the top of pages. This requires you to have
setup [[ViewCVS]] or something similar to access your [[Subversion]]
repository. The `historyurl` setting makes ikiwiki add the links, and
- in that url, "[[]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So
+ in that url, "\[[file]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So
edit ikiwiki.setup and set `historyurl` to something like this:
- `http://svn.host/trunk/[[]]?root=wiki`
+ `http://svn.host/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki`
Then run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` again.