Next, `git clone` the source (`$REPOSITORY`, not `$SRCDIR`)
from the server to the laptop.
-Now, set up a [[web_server|dot_cgi]] on your laptop, if it doesn't
-already have one.
-
Now you need to write a setup file for ikiwiki on the laptop. Mostly this
is standard, but a few special settings are needed:
* Configure a cgi wrapper as usual, but configure the git wrapper to
be written to the `post-commit` hook of the git clone, rather than the
usual `post-update` hook.
+
+ git_wrapper: /home/user/foo-wiki/.git/hooks/post-commit
* By default, ikiwiki pulls and pushes from `origin`. This shouldn't be
done on the laptop, because the origin may not be accessible (when the
Make sure you have ikiwiki 2.11 or better installed, and set:
- gitorigin_branch => "",
+ gitorigin_branch:
* You can optionally enable to the [[plugins/mirrorlist]] plugin,
and configure it so that each page links to the corresponding page on the
Now just run `ikiwiki -setup wiki.setup -getctime` and you should be
good to go. (You only need the slow `-getctime` option the first time you
-run setup.)
+run setup.) If you have taken your `wiki.setup` file from an existing
+wiki, you may need to change certain parameters to adapt to the paths
+on your laptop, a few examples:
+
+ srcdir: /home/user/foo-wiki
+ destdir: /home/user/public_html
+ # optional
+ url: http://foo-wiki.localhost
+ libdir: /home/user/foo-wiki/.ikiwiki
+ ENV:
+ TMPDIR: /home/user/tmp
+ cookiejar:
+ file:
+
+Now, set up a [[web_server|dot_cgi]] on your laptop, if it doesn't
+already have one. You can also skip that step if you want only to
+render the wiki and not allow edition, in which case you'll want the
+following:
+
+ # disable CGI, unless you want to get really funky
+ cgiurl:
+ cgi_wrapper:
+
+You can also direct people to the main server for web edition there.
Use standard git commands to handle pulling from and pushing to the server.