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[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / tips / nearlyfreespeech.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn b/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn
index 6715f0c29b44a4a37f8f620b41c0b1ce2cd9eade..2a78b66a37215b1d8e078f2cda37419ad3902de4 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+[[!meta date="2008-05-05 14:51:26 -0400"]]
+
 [NearlyFreeSpeech.net](http://NearlyFreeSpeech.net) is a shared hosting
 provider with very cheap pay as you go pricing. Here's how to install ikiwiki
 there if you don't have a dedicated server.
@@ -14,7 +16,8 @@ After you [get an account](https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/start.php),
 create a site using their web interface. 
 
 Mine is named `ikiwiki-test` and I used their DNS instead of getting my
-own, resulting in <http://ikiwiki-test.nfshost.com/>
+own, resulting in <http://ikiwiki-test.nfshost.com/>. (Not being kept up
+anymore.)
 
 They gave me 2 cents free funding for signing up, which is enough to pay
 for 10 megabytes of bandwidth, or about a thousand typical page views, at
@@ -49,9 +52,9 @@ because the system has most modules installed already.
 So, you might want to skip this step and come back to it later if ikiwiki
 doesn't work.
 
-       PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
+       PERL5LIB=$HOME/ikiwiki:$HOME/ikiwiki/cpan:$HOME/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
        
-       PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->force(install => "Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
+       PERL5LIB=$HOME/ikiwiki:$HOME/ikiwiki/cpan:$HOME/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->force(install => "Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
 
 This will take a while. As long as the first command succeeds, ikiwiki will be
 usable. The second command adds extra modules that some plugins use, so it's
@@ -77,17 +80,18 @@ Here is an example of how I set up a wiki:
        mkdir ~/wiki
        cd ~/wiki
        cp -r ~/ikiwiki/doc/examples/blog/* .
-       ikiwiki -dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup
+       ikiwiki --dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup
        nano ikiwiki.setup
        # Set destdir to /home/htdocs
        # Set srcdir to /home/private/wiki
-       # Set url to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/ , set cgiurl likewise
+       # Set url to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/
+       # Set cgiurl to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/ikiwiki.cgi
        # Uncomment the `rcs => "git"` line.
        # Set the cgi_wrapper path to /home/htdocs/ikiwiki.cgi
        # Set the git_wrapper path to /home/private/wiki.git/hooks/post-update
        # Configure the rest to your liking and save the file.
        ikiwiki-makerepo git . ../wiki.git
-       ikiwiki -setup ikiwiki.setup
+       ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup
 
 ## Clean up