-So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This turorial will walk
-you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]] and that has
-optional support for commits from the web.
+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.
+1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
- apt-get install ikiwiki # soon
-
- Ikiwiki requires [[MarkDown]] be installed, and also uses the following
- perl modules: `CGI::Session` `CGI::FormBuilder` `HTML::Template`
-
-2. Create the subversion repository for your wiki.
+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
+ # Git requires something be in the repo to start with.
+ cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
+ git add .
+ git commit -m create -a
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.
-4. Create some files and add them into subversion. Or you might copy the
- files from /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki and check those in to get a
- head start on creating your wiki.
+ ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
+ --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
- echo "Welcome to my empty wiki." > ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn
- echo "Feel free to edit this page" > ~/wikiwc/sandbox.mdwn
- svn add ~/wikiwc/*.mdwn
- svn commit ~/wikiwc -m add
+ Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
+ be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
-5. Build your wiki for the first time.
+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:
- ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ \
- /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates ~/public_html/wiki/ \
- --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
+ 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
- Replace the url with the right url to your wiki. You should now
- be able to visit the url and see your page that you created earlier.
+ 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
`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`,
- `templatedir` and `destdir` are the three directories you specify when
- running ikiwiki by hand. `svnrepo` is the path to your subversion
- 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.
+ ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
+ `destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by
+ hand. `svnrepo` is the path to your subversion 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 a svn wrapper. This
- sets up a [[post-commit]] hook to update the wiki.
+ If you want to use git, comment out the subversion stuff, uncomment and
+ edit the git stuff.
+
+ Note that the default file has a block to configure an [[post-commit]]
+ 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.
`ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
9. Add [[PageHistory]] links to the top of pages. This requires you to have
- setup [[ViewCVS]] or something similar to access your [[Subversion]]
- repository. 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:
-
- `http://svn.host/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki`
+ 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 ucomment the appropriate `historyurl` setting and edit
+ it for your setup.
Then run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` again.