Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.ikiwiki.info/srv/git/ikiwiki.info

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--- a/doc/setup.mdwn
+++ b/doc/setup.mdwn
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
 
 [[!toc ]]
 
-## [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki
+## 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.
@@ -46,14 +46,8 @@ 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
 
@@ -62,8 +56,8 @@ web for editing pages, and instead using your favorite text editor and
 [[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
@@ -71,6 +65,7 @@ source. (Remember to replace "foo" with the real directory name.)
 
        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
@@ -94,7 +89,7 @@ These range from changing the wiki's name, to enabling [[plugins]],
 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
@@ -107,6 +102,12 @@ After making changes to this file, you need to tell ikiwiki to use it:
 
        % 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
 
 As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
@@ -116,26 +117,24 @@ a working copy checked out from the version control system repository.
 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
 
-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!