This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
-[[toc ]]
+[[!toc ]]
## [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki.
+If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, ikiwiki is an `apt-get install ikiwiki` away.
+If you're not, see the [[download]] and [[install]] pages.
+
+## Quick start
+
+If you'd like to set up a wiki now, and learn more later, and you have
+ikiwiki 2.60 or better installed, just run this command and answer a couple
+of questions.
+
+ % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
+ What will the wiki be named? mywiki
+ What revision control system to use? git
+ What wiki user (or openid) will be wiki admin? joey
+
+Wait for it to tell you an url for your new wiki.. Done!
+
+(If the CGI doesn't seem to let you edit pages, you might need to
+[[configure_apache|tips/apache_cgi]] or [[configure_lighttpd|tips/lighttpd_cgi]].)
+
## Decide where your wiki's files will go.
As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
$EDITOR index.mdwn
In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like
-[[toggle id=page text="this one"]].
-[[toggleable id=page text="""
+[[!toggle id=page text="this one"]].
+[[!toggleable id=page text="""
Welcome to your new wiki.
All wikis are supposed to have a \[[SandBox]],
This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info).
"""]]
-See [[HelpOnFormatting]] for details about the markup language.
+See [[ikiwiki/formatting]] for details about the markup language.
Note that several [[standard_wiki_pages|basewiki]] will be added to your
wiki, from files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/`, so your wiki will
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.
+
+To generate a setup file, use `ikiwiki --dumpsetup`. You can pass
+all the options have you been including at the command line, and they
+will be stored in the setup file.
+
+ ikiwiki $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/ --dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup
+
+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
## Turn on additional features.
-Now you have a basic wiki with a configuration file. Time to experiment
+Now you have a basic wiki with a setup 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
+settings 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
Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is where ikiwiki keeps its state, and
should be preserved, but not checked into revision control.
-The new [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] command automates setting up a wiki in
+The [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] command automates setting up a wiki in
revision control.
-[[toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
-[[toggleable id=subversion text="""
+[[!toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
+[[!toggleable id=subversion text="""
REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
ikiwiki-makerepo svn $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
"""]]
-[[toggle id=git text="Git"]]
-[[toggleable id=git text="""
+[[!toggle id=git text="Git"]]
+[[!toggleable id=git text="""
REPOSITORY=~/wiki.git
ikiwiki-makerepo git $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
- Please see [[rcs/git]] for detailed documentation about how
- ikiwiki uses git repositories, and some important caveats
- about using the git repositories.
+Please see [[rcs/git]] for detailed documentation about how
+ikiwiki uses git repositories, and some important caveats
+about using the git repositories.
"""]]
-[[toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]]
-[[toggleable id=mercurial text="""
+[[!toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]]
+[[!toggleable id=mercurial text="""
REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
ikiwiki-makerepo mercurial $SRCDIR
"""]]
-[[toggle id=tla text="TLA"]]
-[[toggleable id=tla text="""
+[[!toggle id=bazaar text="Bazaar"]]
+[[!toggleable id=bazaar text="""
+ REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
+ ikiwiki-makerepo bzr $SRCDIR
+"""]]
+
+[[!toggle id=tla text="TLA"]]
+[[!toggleable id=tla text="""
REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
tla import
"""]]
-[[toggle id=monotone text="Monotone"]]
-[[toggleable id=monotone text="""
- # These instructions are standard instructions to import a directory into monotone
- # and set it up so that you don't need any passwords to use it
- REPOSITORY=~/.ikiwiki/mtn.db
- BRANCH=com.company.wikiname
- # remember the password you use in the next step and
- # substitute it for 'wikiKeyPass' in the get_passphrase() hook below
- # note the you should never generate two monotone keys with the same name
- mtn genkey web@machine.company.com
- mtn db init --db=$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
+[[!toggle id=monotone text="Monotone"]]
+[[!toggleable id=monotone text="""
+ # This assumes that you have already used "mtn genkey you@hostname".
+ REPOSITORY=~/wiki.monotone
+ ikiwiki-makerepo monotone $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
"""]]
## Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
-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`).
+Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system, you should
+configure ikiwiki to use revision control. Edit your ikiwiki.setup, set
+`rcs` to the the revision control system you chose to use. Be sure to set
+`svnrepo` to the directory for your repository, if using subversion.
+Uncomment the configuration for the wrapper for your revision control
+system, and configure the wrapper path appropriately (for Git, it should be
+the path to `hooks/post-update` inside the bare git repository).
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