This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
-1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
+1. [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki.
2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
- As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source
- directory, and outputs the files to a destination directory.
+ 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/
+ 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.
3. Create the beginnings of your wiki.
This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
- mkdir $SRCDIR
- cd $SRCDIR
- $EDITOR index.mdwn
-
- In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like this one:
-
- Welcome to your new wiki.
- All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], so this one does too.
- ----
- This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net).
+ mkdir $SRCDIR
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ $EDITOR index.mdwn
+ 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.
+ All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]],
+ so this one does too.
+ ----
+ This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info).
+ """]]
+
See [[HelpOnFormatting]] for details about the markup language.
- Note that several standard wiki pages 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.
+ 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.
4. Build your wiki for the first time.
- ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
+ ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/
Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
- the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
- `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
- (see [[usage]]).
+ 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.
+
+ You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as `--wikiname`
+ and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see
+ [[usage]]).
6. 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.
+ `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
There's little that's ikiwiki specific about these instructions; this is
just how you put a directory under revision control using the various
- systems ikiwiki supports:
+ systems that ikiwiki supports. Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is
+ where ikiwiki keeps its state, and should be preserved, but not checked
+ into revision control.
+
+ [[toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
+ [[toggleable id=subversion text="""
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
+ svn mkdir file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "create trunk"
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk .
+ svn add *
+ svn commit -m "initial import"
+ """]]
- # Subversion
- REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
- svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
- svn import $SRCDIR file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "initial import"
- rm -rf $SRCDIR
- svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk $SRCDIR
-
- # Git
- REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
- mkdir $REPOSITORY
- cd $REPOSITORY
- git init-db
- cp -a $SRCDIR/* .
- git add .
- git commit -m "initial import" -a
- rm -rf $SRCDIR
- git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
-
- # TLA
- REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
- tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
- tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
- cd $SRCDIR
- tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
- tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
- # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
- # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
- tla add *
- tla import
-
- # Mercurial
- REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
- hg init $REPOSITORY
+ [[toggle id=git text="Git"]]
+ [[toggleable id=git text="""
+ When using Git, you probably want to set up two repositories, of which
+ one should be bare (meaning that it does not have a working tree
+ checked out). We call the bare repository the "repository" and the
+ other will be the "srcdir" (which `ikiwiki` uses to compile the wiki).
+ There are [other
+ ways](http://blog.madduck.net/vcs/2007.07.11_publishing-git-repositories)
+ to do the following, but this might be easiest:
+
+ REPOSITORY=~/wiki.git
+ GIT_DIR=$REPOSITORY git --bare init --shared
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ git init
+ echo /.ikiwiki > .gitignore
+ git add .
+ git commit -m "initial commit"
+ git remote add origin $REPOSITORY
+ git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
+ git push --all
+
+ It is **paramount** that you **never** push to the Git repository in
+ `$SRCDIR` ([this FAQ entry explains
+ why](http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/GitFaq#head-b6a3d85f677763313159eb39f7dbf4579d4ee28b)).
+ Instead, if you want to work on the wiki from a remote machine, clone
+ `$REPOSITORY`, using either the `git` transport (if available), or
+ `ssh`.
+
+ If at any point you commit changes in `$SRCDIR`, make sure to `git
+ push` them to the `$REPOSITORY`.
+
+ Finally, see [[Git_pitfalls]] if you experience problems.
+ """]]
+
+ [[toggle id=tla text="TLA"]]
+ [[toggleable id=tla text="""
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
+ tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
+ tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
+ # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
+ # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
+ tla add *
+ tla import
+ """]]
+
+ [[toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]]
+ [[toggleable id=mercurial text="""
+ REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR
+ hg init $REPOSITORY
+ cd $REPOSITORY
+ hg add *
+ hg commit -m "initial import"
+ """]]
+
+ [[toggle id=monotone text="Monotone"]]
+ [[toggleable id=monotone text="""
+ # These instructions are standard instructions to import a directory into monotone
+ # and set it up so that you don't need any passwords to use it
+ REPOSITORY=~/.ikiwiki/mtn.db
+ BRANCH=com.company.wikiname
+ # remember the password you use in the next step and
+ # substitute it for 'wikiKeyPass' in the get_passphrase() hook below
+ # note the you should never generate two monotone keys with the same name
+ mtn genkey web@machine.company.com
+ mtn db init --db=$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
+ """]]
9. Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
you chose to use. Be sure to set `svnrepo` to $REPOSITORY, if using
subversion. Uncomment the block for the wrapper for your revision
control system, and configure the wrapper path in that block
- appropriately.
-
+ appropriately (for Git, it should be `$REPOSITORY/hooks/post-update`).
+
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.
-10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]].
+10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]. And check out
+ [[tips]] to find out how to get more out of ikiwiki.