> > The reason is that I'm not logged in on the web server regularly to
> > check the log files. I'll see whether I can install a logwatch instance.
+I'm trying to install from scratch on a CentOS 4.6 system. I installed perl 5.8.8 from source and then added all the required modules via CPAN. When I build ikiwiki from the tarball, I get this message:
+
+ rendering todo/calendar_--_archive_browsing_via_a_calendar_frontend.mdwn
+ *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0922e478 ***
+ make: *** [extra_build] Aborted
+
+I'm kind of at a loss how to track this down or work around it. Any suggestions? --Monty
+
+> All I can tell you is that it looks like a problem with your C library or
+> perl. Little perl programs like ikiwiki should only be able to trigger
+> such bugs, not contain them. :-) Sorry I can't be of more help.
+> --[[Joey]]
+
+> I had a similar problem after upgrading to the latest version of
+> Text::Markdown from CPAN. You might try either looking for a Markdown
+> package for CentOS or using the latest version of John Gruber's
+> Markdown.pl:
+> <http://daringfireball.net/projects/downloads/Markdown_1.0.2b8.tbz>
+> --[[JasonBlevins]], April 1, 2008 18:22 EDT
+
+>> Unfortunately I couldn't find a CentOS package for markdown, and I
+>> couldn't quite figure out how to use John Gruber's version instead.
+>> I tried copying it to site_perl, etc., but the build doesn't pick
+>> it up. For now I can just play with it on my Ubuntu laptop for which
+>> the debian package installed flawlessly. I'll probably wait for an
+>> updated version of Markdown to see if this is fixed in the future.
+>> --Monty
+
+>I suggest that you pull an older version of Text::Markdown from CPAN. I am using <http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/B/BO/BOBTFISH/Text-Markdown-1.0.5.tar.gz> and that works just fine.
+>There is a step change in version and size between this version (dated 11Jan2008) and the next version (1.0.12 dated 18Feb2008). I shall have a little look to see why, in due course.
+>Ubuntu Hardy Heron has a debian package now, but that does not work either.
+> --Dirk 22Apr2008
+
+> This might be related to [Text::Markdown bug #37297](http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=37297).--ChapmanFlack 9Jul2008
+
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# Installation of selected docs (html)
perl dependencies installed because that's well documented in the perl world,
but I don't know how to tell ikiwiki to install somewhere other than / --BrianWilson
+> Checkout the tips section for [[tips/SharedHosting]]. It should do the trick. --MattReynolds
+
----
# Upgrade steps
>>
>> -- [[MichaelRasmussen]]
+>>> It appears the scripts were never posted? I recently imported my Mediawiki site into Iki. If it helps, my notes are here: <http://iki.u32.net/Mediawiki_Conversion> --[[sabr]]
+
----
# LaTeX support?
----
-# Access Keys
-
-Would anyone else find this a valuable addition. In oddmuse and instiki (the only other
-wiki engines I am currently using, the edit, home, and submit link tags have an
-accesskey attribute. I find it nice not to have to resort to the mouse for those
-actions. However, it may not be something everyone appreciates. Any thoughts?
---[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com)
-
-> Maybe, although it would need to take the critisism at
-> <http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html> into account.
-
->> Thank you for that link. Given that the edit link is the first thing you tab to
->> in the current layout, I guess it isn't all that necessary. I have had a
->> a user complaint recently that Alt-e in oddmuse was overriding his access
->> to the browser menu.
-
-----
-
# Editing the style sheet.
It would be nice to be able to edit the stylesheet by means of the cgi. Or is this possible? I wasn't able to achieve it.
----
-# User database tools?
-
-Any tool to view user database?
-
-Any tool to edit the user database?
-
-> No, but it's fairly easy to write such tools in perl. For example, to
-> list all users in the user database:
-
- joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $_ foreach keys %$userinfo'
- http://joey.kitenet.net/
- foo
-
-> To list each user's email address:
-
- joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $userinfo->{$_}->{email} foreach keys %$userinfo'
-
- joey@kitenet.net
-
-> Editing is simply a matter of changing values and calling Storable::store().
-> I've not written actual utilities to do this yet because I've only needed
-> to do it rarely, and the data I've wanted has been different each time.
-> --[[Joey]]
-
->> Thanks for these examples -- I have been using them. I don't know the Storable yet. Can someone share an example of removing a user? (I now setup account\_creation\_password and I have some spammer with different login names that I have banned that I might as well remove from the userdb.)
-
-----
-
# Spaces in WikiLinks?
Hello Joey,
My best regards,
---[[Paweł|ptecza]]
+--[[PaweB|ptecza]]
> See [[bugs/Spaces_in_link_text_for_ikiwiki_links]]
> away without running the post-commit wrapper on commit, and all you lose
> is the ability to send commit notification emails.
+> (And now that [[recentchanges]] includes rss, you can just subscribe to
+> that, no need to worry about commit notification emails anymore.)
+
* Is it possible / sensible to have ikiwiki share a subversion repository with other data (either completely unrelated files or another ikiwiki instance)? This works in part but again the post-commit hook seems problematic.
--[[AdamShand]]
> in the same repo. If you have two wikis in one repository, you will need
> to write a post-commit script that calls the post-commit wrappers for each
> wiki.
+
+----
+
+# Regex for Valid Characters in Filenames
+
+I'm sure that this is documented somewhere but I've ransacked the wiki and I can't find it. :-( What are the allowed characters in an ikiwiki page name? I'm writing a simple script to make updating my blog easier and need to filter invalid characters (so far I've found that # and , aren't allowed ;-)). Thanks for any pointers. -- [[AdamShand]]
+
+> The default `wiki_file_regexp` matches filenames containing only
+> `[-[:alnum:]_.:/+]`
+>
+> The IkiWiki::titlepage() function will convert freeform text to a valid
+> page name. See [[todo/should_use_a_standard_encoding_for_utf_chars_in_filenames]]
+> for an example. --[[Joey]]
+
+>> Perfect, thanks!
+>>
+>> In the end I decided that I didn't need any special characters in filenames and replaced everything but alphanumeric characters with underscores. In addition to replacing bad characters I also collapse multiple underscores into a single one, and strip off trailing and leading underscores to make tidy filenames. If it's useful to anybody else here's a sed example:
+>>
+>> # echo "++ Bad: ~@#$%^&*()_=}{[];,? Iki: +_-:./ Num: 65.5 ++" | sed -e 's/[^A-Za-z0-9_]/_/g' -e 's/__*/_/g' -e 's/^_//g' -e 's/_$//g'
+>> Bad_Iki_Num_65_5
+>>
+>>--[[AdamShand]]
+
+# Upgrade steps from RecentChanges CGI to static page?
+
+Where are the upgrade steps for RecentChanges change from CGI to static feed?
+I run multiple ikiwiki-powered sites on multiple servers, but today I just upgraded one to 2.32.3.
+Please have a look at
+<http://bsdwiki.reedmedia.net/wiki/recentchanges.html>
+Any suggestions?
+
+> There are no upgrade steps required. It does look like you need to enable
+> the meta plugin to get a good recentchanges page though.. --[[Joey]]
+
+# News site where articles are submitted and then reviewed before posting?
+
+I am considering moving a news site to Ikiwiki. I am hoping that Ikiwiki has a feature where anonymous posters can submit a form that moderators can review and then accept for it to be posted on a news webpage (like front page of the website).
+
+> Well, you can have one blog that contains unreviewed articles, and
+> moderators can then add a tag that makes the article show up in the main
+> news feed. There's nothing stopping someone submitting an article
+> pre-tagged though. If you absolutely need to lock that down, you could
+> have one blog with unreviewed articles in one subdirectory, and reviewers
+> then move the file over to another subdirectory when they're ready to
+> publish it. (This second subdirectory would be locked to prevent others
+> from writing to it.) --[[Joey]]
+
+Also it would be good if the news page would keep maybe just the latest 10 entries with links to an archive that make it easy to browse to old entries by date. (Could have over a thousand news articles.)
+
+> The inline plugin allows setting up things like this.
+
+Plus users be able to post feedback to news items. If anonymous, they must be approved first. I'd prefer to not use normal "wiki" editor for feedback.
+
+Any thoughts or examples on this? Any links to examples of news sites or blogs with outside feedback using ikiwiki?
+
+Thanks --[[JeremyReed]]
+