This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
-[[toc ]]
+[[!toc ]]
-## [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki.
+## Install ikiwiki
-## Decide where your wiki's files will go.
+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.
-As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
-and outputs the files to a destination directory. If you keep your wiki in
-a version control system, the source directory will contain a working copy
-checked out from the version control system.
-
-For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
-for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
-
- SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
- DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
-
-Note that ikiwiki owns the working copy directory; do not perform your own
-edits in ikiwiki's working copy.
-
-## Create the beginnings of your wiki.
-
-This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
+## Create your wiki
- mkdir $SRCDIR
- cd $SRCDIR
- $EDITOR index.mdwn
+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]].
+"""]]
-In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like
-[[toggle id=page text="this one"]].
-[[toggleable id=page text="""
- Welcome to your new wiki.
+ % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
- All wikis are supposed to have a \[[SandBox]],
- so this one does too.
+Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead.
- ----
+ % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup
- This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info).
-"""]]
-
-See [[ikiwiki/formatting]] for details about the markup language.
+Either way, it will ask you a couple of questions.
-Note that several [[standard_wiki_pages|basewiki]] 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.
+ 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:
-## Build your wiki for the first time.
+Then, wait for it to tell you an url for your new site..
- ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/
+ 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
-Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
-be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
+Done!
-## Add content to your wiki.
+## Using the web interface
-Continue editing or adding pages and rebuilding the wiki.
-
-To quickly get started on a common task like blogging with ikiwiki, you
-can copy in files from the [[examples]]. The examples are located in
-`doc/examples/` in the ikiwiki source package.
+Now you can go to the url it told you, and edit pages in your new wiki
+using the web interface.
-You can experiment with other ikiwiki parameters such as `--wikiname`
-and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see
-[[usage]]).
+(If the web interface doesn't seem to allow editing or login, you may
+need to [[configure_the_web_server|tips/dot_cgi]].)
-## Add a setup file.
+## Checkout and edit wiki source
-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. Note that this
-file should *not* be put in your wiki's directory with the rest of the
-files. A good place to put it is in a ~/.ikiwiki/ subdirectory.
-
-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.
+Part of the fun of using ikiwiki is not being limited to using the
+web for editing pages, and instead using your favorite text editor and
+[[Revision_Control_System|rcs]].
-When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
-will set everything up.
+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.)
-## Turn on additional features.
+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
+source. (Remember to replace "foo" with the real directory name.)
-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!
+ 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
+ # TODO monotone, tla
-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]]..
+Now to edit pages by hand, go into the directory you checked out (ie,
+"foo.src"), and fire up your text editor to edit `index.mdwn` or whatever
+other page you want to edit. If you chose to set up a blog, there is even a
+sample first post in `posts/first_post.mdwn` that you can edit.
-## Put your wiki in revision control.
+Once you've edited a page, use your revision control system to commit
+the changes. For distributed revision control systems, don't forget to push
+your commit.
-At this point you might want to check your wiki in to a revision control
-system so you can keep track of changes and revert edits. Depending
-on the revision control system you choose, the way this is done varies.
+Once the commit reaches the repository, ikiwiki will notice it, and
+automatically update the wiki with your changes.
-Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is where ikiwiki keeps its state, and
-should be preserved, but not checked into revision control.
+## Customizing the wiki
-The new [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] command automates setting up a wiki in
-revision control.
+There are lots of things you can configure to customize your wiki.
+These range from changing the wiki's name, to enabling [[plugins]],
+to banning users and locking pages.
-[[toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
-[[toggleable id=subversion text="""
- REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
- ikiwiki-makerepo svn $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
-"""]]
+If you log in as the admin user you configured earlier, and go to
+your Preferences page, you can click on "Setup" to customize many
+wiki settings and plugins.
-[[toggle id=git text="Git"]]
-[[toggleable id=git text="""
- REPOSITORY=~/wiki.git
- ikiwiki-makerepo git $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
+Some settings cannot be configured on the web, for security reasons or
+because misconfiguring them could break the wiki. To change these settings,
+you can manually edit the setup file, which is named something like
+"foo.setup". The file lists all available configuration settings
+and gives a brief description of each.
-Please see [[rcs/git]] for detailed documentation about how
-ikiwiki uses git repositories, and some important caveats
-about using the git repositories.
-"""]]
+After making changes to this file, you need to tell ikiwiki to use it:
-[[toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]]
-[[toggleable id=mercurial text="""
- REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
- ikiwiki-makerepo mercurial $SRCDIR
-"""]]
+ % ikiwiki -setup foo.setup
-[[toggle id=mercurial text="Bazaar"]]
-[[toggleable id=bazaar text="""
- REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
- ikiwiki-makerepo bzr $SRCDIR
-"""]]
+## Customizing file locations
-[[toggle id=tla text="TLA"]]
-[[toggleable id=tla text="""
- REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
- tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
- tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
- cd $SRCDIR
- tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
- tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
- # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
- # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
- tla add *
- tla import
-"""]]
+As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
+and outputs the files to a destination directory. The source directory is
+a working copy checked out from the version control system repository.
-[[toggle id=monotone text="Monotone"]]
-[[toggleable id=monotone text="""
- # These instructions are standard instructions to import a directory into monotone
- # and set it up so that you don't need any passwords to use it
- REPOSITORY=~/.ikiwiki/mtn.db
- BRANCH=com.company.wikiname
- # remember the password you use in the next step and
- # substitute it for 'wikiKeyPass' in the get_passphrase() hook below
- # note the you should never generate two monotone keys with the same name
- mtn genkey web@machine.company.com
- mtn db init --db=$REPOSITORY
- mv $SRCDIR $SRCDIR-old
- cd $SRCDIR-old
- echo ".ikiwiki" > $SRCDIR-old/.mtn-ignore
- mtn --db=$REPOSITORY --branch=$BRANCH import . -m "initial import"
- cd ..
- mtn --db=$REPOSITORY --branch=$BRANCH checkout $SRCDIR
- mv $SRCDIR-old/.ikiwiki $SRCDIR
- cat << EOF > $SRCDIR/_MTN/monotonerc
- function get_passphrase (branchname)
- return "wikiKeyPass"
- end
- EOF
- rm -r $SRCDIR-old
-"""]]
+When you used `auto.setup`, ikiwiki put the source directory, destination
+directory, and repository in your home directory, and told you the location
+of each. Those locations were chosen to work without customization, but you
+might want to move them to different directories.
-## Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
+First, move the destination directory and repository around.
+
+ % mv public_html/foo /srv/web/foo.com
+ % mv foo.git /srv/git/foo.git
-Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system,
-you should configure ikiwiki to use revision control. Edit your
-ikiwiki.setup, and uncomment the lines for the revision control system
-you chose to use. Uncomment the block for the wrapper for your revision
-control system, and configure the wrapper path in that block
-appropriately (for Git, it should be `$REPOSITORY/hooks/post-update`).
+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
-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.
+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!