-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]] or [[Git]],
-and that has optional support for commits from the web.
-
-1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
-
-2. Create the master rcs repository for your wiki.
-
- # Subversion
- svnadmin create /svn/wikirepo
- svn mkdir file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk -m create
-
- # Git
- mkdir /git/wikirepo
- cd /git/wikirepo
- git init-db
-
-3. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use.
-
- # Subversion
- svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
-
- # Git
- git clone /git/wikirepo ~/wikiwc
-
-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 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:
-
- cd ~/wikiwc
- 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
-
- 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
- `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
- (see [[usage]]).
-
-7. 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. `rcsrepo` is the path to your master rcs 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.
-
- Note that the default file has a block to configure an Rcs 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.
-
-8. 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!
-
-9. Add [[PageHistory]] links to the top of pages. This requires you to have
- setup a repository browser. For Subversion, you may use [[ViewCVS]] or
- something similar to access your [[Subversion]] repository. For Git,
- [[Gitweb]] can be used.
-
- The `historyurl` setting makes ikiwiki add the links, and in that url,
- "\[[file]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So edit
- ikiwiki.setup and set `historyurl` to something like this for
- Subversion:
+This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
+
+[[!toc ]]
+
+## 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.
+
+## Create your wiki
+
+All it takes to create a fully functional wiki using ikiwiki is running
+one command.
+[[!template id=note text="""
+For more control, advanced users may prefer to set up a wiki
+[[by_hand|byhand]].
+"""]]
+
+ % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
+
+Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead.
+
+ % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup
+
+Either way, it will ask you a couple of questions.
+
+ What will the wiki be named? foo
+ What revision control system to use? git
+ What wiki user (or openid) will be admin? joey
+ Choose a password:
+
+Then, wait for it to tell you an url for your new site..
+
+ Successfully set up foo:
+ url: http://example.com/~joey/foo
+ srcdir: ~/foo
+ destdir: ~/public_html/foo
+ repository: ~/foo.git
+ To modify settings, edit ~/foo.setup and then run:
+ ikiwiki -setup ~/foo.setup
+
+Done!
+
+## Using the web interface
+
+Now you can go to the url it told you, and edit pages in your new wiki
+using the web interface.
+
+(If the web interface doesn't seem to allow editing or login, you may
+need to configure [[configure_the_web_server|tips/dot_cgi]].)