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 This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
 
 This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
 

-### 1. [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki.
+[[!toc ]]

 
 

-### 2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
+## Install ikiwiki

 
 

-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.
+If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, ikiwiki is an <code><a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations">apt-get</a> install ikiwiki</code> away.
+If you're not, see the [[download]] and [[install]] pages.

 
 

-For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
-for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
+You may also want to try out a [[Docker image|https://github.com/elecnix/ikiwiki-docker]] with ikiwiki pre-installed.

 
 

-       SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
-       DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
+## Create your wiki

 
 

-Note that ikiwiki owns the working copy directory; do not perform your own
-edits in ikiwiki's working copy.
+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]].
+"""]]

 
 

-### 3. Create the beginnings of your wiki.
+       % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup

 
 

-This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
+Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead.

 
 

-       mkdir $SRCDIR
-       cd $SRCDIR
-       $EDITOR index.mdwn
+       % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup

 
 

-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.
+`librpc-xml-perl` and `python-docutils` dependencies are needed.

 
 

-       All wikis are supposed to have a \[[SandBox]],
-       so this one does too.
+Either way, it will ask you a couple of questions.

 
 

-       ----
+       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:

 
 

-       This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info).
-"""]]
-   
-See [[HelpOnFormatting]] for details about the markup language.
+Then, wait for it to tell you an url for your new site..

 
 

-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.
+       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

 
 

-### 4. Build your wiki for the first time.
+Done! 

 
 

-       ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/
+## Using the web interface

 
 

-Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
-be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
+Now you can go to the url it told you, and edit pages in your new wiki
+using the web interface.

 
 

-### 5. Add content to your wiki.
+(If the web interface doesn't seem to allow editing or login, you may
+need to [[configure_the_web_server|tips/dot_cgi]].)

 
 

-Repeat steps 3 and 4 as desired, 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.
+## Checkout and edit wiki source

 
 

-You can experiment with other ikiwiki parameters such as `--wikiname`
-and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see
-[[usage]]).
+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]]. 

 
 

-### 6. Add a setup file.
+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.)

 
 

-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.
-   
-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.
+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.)

 
 

-When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
-will set everything up.
+       git clone foo.git foo.src
+       svn checkout file://`pwd`/foo.svn/trunk foo.src
+       cvs -d `pwd`/foo get -P ikiwiki
+       bzr clone foo foo.src
+       hg clone foo foo.src
+       darcs get foo.darcs foo.src
+       # TODO monotone, tla

 
 

-### 7. Turn on additional features.
+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.

 
 

-Now you have a basic wiki with a configuration 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
-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]]..
-
-### 8. 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.
-
-There's little that's ikiwiki specific about these instructions; this is
-just how you put a directory under revision control using the various
-systems that ikiwiki supports. Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is
-where ikiwiki keeps its state, and should be preserved, but not checked
-into revision control.
-
-[[toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
-[[toggleable id=subversion text="""
-       REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
-       svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
-       svn mkdir file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "create trunk"
-       cd $SRCDIR
-       svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk .
-       svn add *
-       svn commit -m "initial import"
-"""]]
+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.

 
 

-[[toggle id=git text="Git"]]
-[[toggleable id=git text="""
-When using Git, you probably want to set up two repositories, of which
-one should be bare (meaning that it does not have a working tree
-checked out). We call the bare repository the "repository" and the
-other will be the "srcdir" (which `ikiwiki` uses to compile the wiki).
-There are [other
-ways](http://blog.madduck.net/vcs/2007.07.11_publishing-git-repositories)
-to do the following, but this might be easiest:
-
-       REPOSITORY=~/wiki.git
-       GIT_DIR=$REPOSITORY git --bare init --shared
-       cd $SRCDIR
-       git init
-       echo /.ikiwiki > .gitignore
-       git add .
-       git commit -m "initial commit"
-       git remote add origin $REPOSITORY
-       git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
-       git push --all
-
-It is **paramount** that you **never** push to the Git repository in
-`$SRCDIR` ([this FAQ entry explains
-why](http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-b6a3d85f677763313159eb39f7dbf4579d4ee28b)).
-Instead, if you want to work on the wiki from a remote machine, clone
-`$REPOSITORY`, using either the `git` transport (if available), or
-`ssh`.
-
-If at any point you commit changes in `$SRCDIR`, make sure to `git
-push` them to the `$REPOSITORY`. ikiwiki will do this automatically
-for any changes made via the web.
-
-Finally, see [[Git_pitfalls]] if you experience problems.
-"""]]
+Once the commit reaches the repository, ikiwiki will notice it, and
+automatically update the wiki with your changes.

 
 

-[[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
-"""]]
+## Customizing the wiki

 
 

-[[toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]]
-[[toggleable id=mercurial text="""
-       REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
-       hg init $REPOSITORY
-       cd $REPOSITORY
-       hg add *
-       hg commit -m "initial import"
-"""]]
+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.

 
 

-[[toggle id=monotone text="Monotone"]]
-[[toggleable id=monotone text="""
-       # These instructions are standard instructions to import a directory into monotone
-       # and set it up so that you don't need any passwords to use it
-       REPOSITORY=~/.ikiwiki/mtn.db
-       BRANCH=com.company.wikiname
-       # remember the password you use in the next step and
-       # substitute it for 'wikiKeyPass' in the get_passphrase() hook below
-       # note the you should never generate two monotone keys with the same name
-       mtn genkey web@machine.company.com
-       mtn db init --db=$REPOSITORY
-       mv $SRCDIR $SRCDIR-old
-       cd $SRCDIR-old
-       echo ".ikiwiki" > $SRCDIR-old/.mtn-ignore
-       mtn --db=$REPOSITORY --branch=$BRANCH import . -m "initial import"
-       cd ..
-       mtn --db=$REPOSITORY --branch=$BRANCH checkout $SRCDIR
-       mv $SRCDIR-old/.ikiwiki $SRCDIR
-       cat << EOF > $SRCDIR/_MTN/monotonerc
-       function get_passphrase (branchname)
-           return "wikiKeyPass"
-       end
-       EOF
-       rm -r $SRCDIR-old
-"""]]
+If you log in as the admin user you configured earlier, and go to
+your Preferences page, you can click on "Setup" to customize many
+wiki settings and plugins.
+
+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.

 
 

-### 9. Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
+After making changes to this file, you need to tell ikiwiki to use it:

 
 

-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
-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`).
+       % ikiwiki --setup foo.setup

 
 

-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.
+Alternatively, you can ask ikiwiki to change settings in the file for you:

 
 

-### 10. Enjoy your new wiki!
+       % ikiwiki --changesetup foo.setup --plugin goodstuff
+
+See [[usage]] for more options.
+
+## Customizing file locations
+
+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.
+
+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.
+
+First, move the destination directory and repository around.
+   
+       % mv public_html/foo /srv/web/foo.com
+       % mv foo.git /srv/git/foo.git
+
+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 /srv/git/foo.git
+
+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!

 
 Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]. And check out
 the [[tips]] to find out how to get more out of ikiwiki.
 
 Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]. And check out
 the [[tips]] to find out how to get more out of ikiwiki.

+
+----
+
+_Notes_:
+
+- If you are searching for the file where the users are stored, it's in `your_repository/.ikiwiki/userdb`. The one which is in YOUR REPOSITORY, it cannot be found into your `~/.ikiwiki`.
+- If you want to enable a plugin you **WILL HAVE** to add it to the `add_plugins` array in the `*.setup` file (or to use the `--plugin` switch while calling `ikiwiki`). Uncommenting the plugin options/configuration fields in the setup is not **ALWAYS** sufficient. You have been warned.