-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.
+This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
-1. [[Install]] ikiwiki.
+1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
- apt-get install ikiwiki # soon
+2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
- Ikiwiki requires [[MarkDown]] be installed, and also uses the following
- perl modules: `CGI::Session` `CGI::FormBuilder` `HTML::Template`
+ As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source
+ directory, and outputs the files to a destination directory.
-2. Create the subversion repository for your wiki.
+ For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
+ for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
- svnadmin create /svn/wikirepo
- svn mkdir file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk -m create
+ SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
+ DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
-3. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use.
+3. Create the beginnings of your wiki.
- svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
+ This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
-4. Create some files and add them into subversion.
+ mkdir $SRCDIR
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ $EDITOR index.mdwn
- 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
+ In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like this one:
-5. Build your wiki for the first time.
+ Welcome to your new wiki.
+ All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], so this one does too.
+ ----
+ This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net).
- ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ \
- /usr/lib/ikiwiki/templates ~/public_html/wiki/ \
- --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
+ See [[HelpOnFormatting]] for details about the markup language.
- 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.
+ Note that several standard wiki pages 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.
-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.
-
-7. Set up a Subversion [[post-commit]] hook to automatically rebuild your
- wiki when you commit to it.
-
- ikiwiki ~/wikiwc/ \
- /usr/lib/ikiwiki/templates ~/public_html/wiki/ \
- --url=http://host/~you/wiki/ --wrapper
- mv ikiwiki-wrap /svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit
-
-8. Set up a [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web.
-
- ikiwiki ~/wikiwc/ \
- /usr/lib/ikiwiki/templates ~/public_html/wiki/ \
- --url=http://host/~you/wiki/ --wrapper --cgi
- chmod 6755 ikiwiki-wrap
- mv wrapper ~/public_html/wiki/ikiwki.cgi
+4. Build your wiki for the first time.
- 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.
+ ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
-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]].
+ Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
+ be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
- ikiwiki $(/svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit --params) \
- --cgiurl=http://host/~you/wiki/ikiwiki.cgi --wrapper
- mv ikiwiki-wrap /svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit
- ikiwiki $(/svn/wikirepo/hooks/post-commit --params) --rebuild
-
- Be sure to change the cgiurl to the actual url to the wiki.cgi you
- installed in step 9.
-
-10. Add [[PageHistory]] links to the top of pages. This requires you to have setup [[ViewCVS]] or something similar to access your [[Subversion]] repository. The --historyurl parameter makes ikiwiki add the links, and in that url, "[[]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So repeat step 9 to rebuild the wiki post commit wrapper and wiki, adding a historyurl something like this one:
-
- --historyurl='http://svn.host/trunk/doc/[[]]?root=wiki'
-
-11. Enjoy your new wiki!
+5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 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]]).
+
+6. 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+ When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
+ will set everything up.
+
+7. 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]]..
+
+8. Put your wiki in revision control.
+
+ At this point you might want to check your wiki in to a revision control
+ system you can get history of past 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 ikiwiki supports:
+
+ # Subversion
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
+ svn import $SRCDIR file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "initial import"
+ rm -rf $SRCDIR
+ svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk $SRCDIR
+
+ # Git
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ mkdir $REPOSITORY
+ cd $REPOSITORY
+ git init-db
+ cp -a $SRCDIR/* .
+ git add .
+ git commit -m "initial import" -a
+ rm -rf $SRCDIR
+ git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
+
+ # TLA
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
+ tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
+ tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
+ # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
+ # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
+ tla add *
+ tla import
+
+ # Mercurial
+ REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
+ hg init $REPOSITORY
+
+9. 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.
+
+ 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.
+
+10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]].