-So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This turorial will walk
-you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]] and that has
-optional support for commits from the web.
-
-1. [[Install]] ikiwiki.
-
- apt-get install ikiwiki
-
-2. Create the subversion repository for your wiki.
-
- svnadmin create /svn/wikirepo
- svn mkdir file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk -m create
-
-3. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use.
-
- svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
-
-4. Create some files them into subversion.
-
- echo "Welcome to my empty wiki." > ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn
- echo "Feel free to edit this page" > ~/wikiwc/sandbox.mdwn
- svn add ~/wikiwc/*.mdwn
- svn commit ~/wikiwc -m add
+So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This tutorial will walk
+you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]], [[Git]],
+[[TLA]] or [[Mercurial]], and that has optional support for commits from the web.
+
+1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
+
+2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
+
+ Pick three directories for respectively the repository (contains
+ the "master copy" and history); working copy (checked-out
+ files from the repository); and web pages (served by the web server).
+
+ For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
+ for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
+
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
+ DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
+
+3. Create the master rcs repository for your wiki.
+
+ # Subversion
+ svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
+ svn mkdir file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m create
+
+ # Git
+ mkdir $REPOSITORY
+ cd $REPOSITORY
+ git init-db
+ # Git requires something be in the repo to start with.
+ cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
+ git add .
+ git commit -m create -a
+ # No need to keep files in the master repository; so at this
+ # stage, you may want to remove all files (except .git) to
+ # save disk space.
+
+ # TLA
+ mkdir $REPOSITORY
+ tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
+ tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
+
+ # Mercurial
+ hg init $REPOSITORY
+
+4. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use
+ as its source directory.
+
+ # Subversion
+ svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk ~/wikiwc
+
+ # Git
+ # Create a local clone to save disk space and also to
+ # optimize performance. See git-clone(1).
+ git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
+
+ # TLA
+ mkdir $SRCDIR
+ 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 import
+
+ # Mercurial
+ # Mercurial uses a single repo approach, so no need to
+ # clone anything. Because the following examples
+ # refer to $SRCDIR, we symlink it:
+ ln -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
5. Build your wiki for the first time.
- ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
- --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
-
- Replace the url with the right url to your wiki. You should now
- be able to visit the url and see your page that you created earlier.
-
-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 conformatble with its command line.
+ ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
-7. Set up a Subversion [[post-commit]] hook to automatically rebuild your
- wiki when you commit to it.
+ Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
+ be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
- ikiwiki ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
- --url=http://host/~you/wiki/ --wrapper
- mv ikiwiki-wrap /svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit
+6. Customise your wiki. The files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/` are
+ used if you don't have a custom version, so let's start by making a
+ custom version of the wiki's index page:
-8. Set up a [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web.
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
+ $EDITOR index.mdwn
+
+ # Subversion
+ svn add index.mdwn
+ svn commit -m customised index.mdwn
+
+ # Git
+ git add index.mdwn
+ git commit -m customised index.mdwn
+ git push origin
- ikiwiki ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
- --url=http://host/~you/wiki/ --wrapper --cgi
- chmod 6755 ikiwiki-wrap
- mv wrapper ~/public_html/wiki/ikiwki.cgi
+ # TLA
+ tla add index.mdwn
+ tla commit
- 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.
+ # Mercurial
+ hg add index.mdwn
+ hg commit -m customised index.mdwn
-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]].
+ You can also add any files you like from scratch of course. Use the same
+ command as in step 5 to rebuild the wiki.
- 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!
+7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 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]]).
+
+8. 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 something other than subversion, comment out the
+ subversion configuration, and uncomment and edit the configuration for
+ your chosen RCS. Note that the default file has a block to configure a
+ [[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.
+
+9. Turn on additional features.
+
+ 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]]..
+
+10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]].