-So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This turorial will walk
+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]] and that has
optional support for commits from the web.
-1. [[Install]] ikiwiki.
-
- apt-get install ikiwiki # soon
-
- Ikiwiki requires [[MarkDown]] be installed, and also uses the following
- perl modules: `CGI::Session` `CGI::FormBuilder` `HTML::Template`
- `Mail::SendMail` `Time::Duration`
+1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
2. Create the subversion repository for your wiki.
svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
-4. Create some files and add them into subversion. Or you might copy the
- files from /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki and check those in to get a
- head start on creating your wiki.
-
- 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
-
-5. Build your wiki for the first time.
+4. Build your wiki for the first time.
ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
--url=http://host/~you/wiki/
Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
- be able to visit the url and see your page that you created earlier.
+ be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
+
+5. 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:
+
+ cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn ~/wikiwc
+ svn add ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn
+ $EDITOR ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn
+ svn commit ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn -m customised
+
+ You can also add any files you like from scratch of course.
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