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-## [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki
+## Install ikiwiki
-If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, ikiwiki is an `apt-get install ikiwiki` away.
+If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, ikiwiki is an <code><a href="http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_basic_package_management_operations">apt-get</a> install ikiwiki</code> away.
If you're not, see the [[download]] and [[install]] pages.
+You may also want to try out a sandboxed [[Docker image|https://github.com/elecnix/ikiwiki-docker]]
+with ikiwiki pre-installed or this other [[one|https://github.com/dgsb/docker-ikiwiki]] which will use a volume to access a local git repository
+for the wiki content.
+
## 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
+ % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead.
- % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup
+ % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup
+
+`librpc-xml-perl` and `python-docutils` dependencies are needed.
Either way, it will ask you a couple of questions.
destdir: ~/public_html/foo
repository: ~/foo.git
To modify settings, edit ~/foo.setup and then run:
- ikiwiki -setup ~/foo.setup
+ ikiwiki --setup ~/foo.setup
Done!
Now you can go to the url it told you, and edit pages in your new wiki
using the web interface.
-You can log in using the wiki user and password (or the openid)
-that you told it to set up earlier. That user is an admin, so you can
-go to the Preferences page and click on "Wiki Setup" to further
-configure the wiki.
-
(If the web interface doesn't seem to allow editing or login, you may
-need to configure [[apache|tips/apache_cgi]] or
-[[lighttpd|tips/lighttpd_cgi]].)
+need to [[configure_the_web_server|tips/dot_cgi]].)
## Checkout and edit wiki source
[[Revision_Control_System|rcs]].
To do this, you need to check out a copy of the source to your wiki.
-You should avoid making changes directly to the `srcdir`, as that
-checkout is reserved for use by ikiwiki itself.
+(You should avoid making changes directly to the `srcdir`, as that
+checkout is reserved for use by ikiwiki itself.)
Depending on which [[Revision_Control_System|rcs]] you chose to use,
you can run one of these commands to check out your own copy of your wiki's
git clone foo.git foo.src
svn checkout file://`pwd`/foo.svn/trunk foo.src
+ cvs -d `pwd`/foo get -P ikiwiki
bzr clone foo foo.src
hg clone foo foo.src
+ darcs get foo.darcs foo.src
# TODO monotone, tla
Now to edit pages by hand, go into the directory you checked out (ie,
to banning users and locking pages.
If you log in as the admin user you configured earlier, and go to
-your Preferences page, you can click on "Wiki Setup" to customize many
+your Preferences page, you can click on "Setup" to customize many
wiki settings and plugins.
Some settings cannot be configured on the web, for security reasons or
After making changes to this file, you need to tell ikiwiki to use it:
- % ikiwiki -setup foo.setup
+ % ikiwiki --setup foo.setup
+
+Alternatively, you can ask ikiwiki to change settings in the file for you:
+
+ % ikiwiki --changesetup foo.setup --plugin goodstuff
+
+See [[usage]] for more options.
## Customizing file locations
When you used `auto.setup`, ikiwiki put the source directory, destination
directory, and repository in your home directory, and told you the location
of each. Those locations were chosen to work without customization, but you
-might want to move them to different directories. There are three steps to
-this process.
-
-1. Move the destination directory and repository around.
+might want to move them to different directories.
+First, move the destination directory and repository around.
+
% mv public_html/foo /srv/web/foo.com
% mv foo.git /srv/git/foo.git
-2. Create a new source directory checkout. If you moved the repository
- to a new location, checkouts pointing at the old location won't work,
- and the easiest way to deal with this is to delete them and re-checkout
- from the new repository location.
-
+If you moved the repository to a new location, checkouts pointing at the
+old location won't work, and the easiest way to deal with this is to delete
+them and re-checkout from the new repository location.
+
% rm -rf foo
- % git clone /src/git/foo.git
+ % git clone /srv/git/foo.git
-3. Edit the setup file. Modify the settings for `srcdir`, `destdir`,
- `url`, `cgiurl`, `cgi_wrapper`, `git_wrapper`, etc to reflect where
- you moved things. Remember to run `ikiwiki -setup` after editing the
- setup file.
+Finally, edit the setup file. Modify the settings for `srcdir`, `destdir`,
+`url`, `cgiurl`, `cgi_wrapper`, `git_wrapper`, etc to reflect where
+you moved things. Remember to run `ikiwiki --setup` after editing the
+setup file.
## Enjoy your new wiki!
Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]. And check out
the [[tips]] to find out how to get more out of ikiwiki.
+
+----
+
+_Notes_:
+
+- If you are searching for the file where the users are stored, it's in `your_repository/.ikiwiki/userdb`. The one which is in YOUR REPOSITORY, it cannot be found into your `~/.ikiwiki`.
+- If you want to enable a plugin you **WILL HAVE** to add it to the `add_plugins` array in the `*.setup` file (or to use the `--plugin` switch while calling `ikiwiki`). Uncommenting the plugin options/configuration fields in the setup is not **ALWAYS** sufficient. You have been warned.