# Installation/Setup questions
-I have just installed ikiwiki and it works - at least I have the example index.mdwn page
-compiled and visible. However I have a few issues/problems:-
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-* A couple of the 'optional' Perl modules aren't optional, you can't install ikiwiki without them,
-these are HTML::Template and HTML::Scrubber (at least I think it was these two, it's a bit messy
-to go back and find out).
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-> You're right, HTML::Template is required. HTML::Scrubber is only required
-> in the default configuration, and is optional if the htmlscrubber plugin
-> is disabled. --[[Joey]]
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-* I don't seem to have got an ikiwiki man page created.
-
-> It should be installed in /usr/share/man, or a similar directory
-> depending on how your perl is set up and how you did the install.
-> --[[Joey]]
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-> Found it, in /usr/local/share/man, since no other man pages are in either /usr/share/man or in /usr/local/share/man the ikiwiki
-> man page is a bit lonely, and more to the point not on my MANPATH. Still I have found it now, I'll just move it to somewhere
-> more sensible. [[Chris]]
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-* Running "ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup" doesn't do anything. I have edited ikiwiki.setup to
-my local settings. There are no errors but neither does anything get compiled. An ikiwiki
-command to explicitly do the compile works fine. Am I misunderstanding something here?
-
-> Further tests indicate that ikiwiki isn't seeing changed files so doesn't always rebuild.
-> How does ikiwiki decide when to rebuild? I tried a full command line like "ikiwiki --verbose ikiwiki ~/public_html/ikiwiki --url=http://www.isbd.ltd.uk/~chris/ikiwiki/" and that doesn't do anything
-either though it was the command line I originally used to compile. After a long interval I 'touch'ed
-the files and then it *did* compile but 'touch'ing the files after a few minutes only doesn't seem to force a recompile. I'm even more confused!
-
-> ikiwiki only compiles files whose modification times have changed. It
-> should see any change made as close as a second after the last compile.
-> When run with --setup, ikiwiki always rebuilds every file in the wiki. If
-> --setup is not working, you must have it pointed at the wrong path or
-> something; you can pass -v to see what it's doing. I don't know why it
-> would not see recently changed files; you could try stracing it.
-> --[[Joey]]
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-> OK, thanks, I don't quite know what was happening before but it seems to be working right now.
-> --[[Chris]]
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->> Weird. I wish I knew what happened, but as it's working now, I'm
->> guessing some kind of user error was involved. --[[Joey]]
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-* I wish there was a mailing list, much easier for this sort of stuff than this, apart from
-anything else I get to use a decent editor.
+(I've moved HarleyPig's problem to its [[own_page|bugs/xgettext_issue]]
+--[[Joey]])
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# Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site?
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-# RecentChanges should show path to wiki sub-pages?
-
-The RecentChanges only shows the final file name for the recently changes file,
-for example "discussion". It would be more useful to see "index/discussion"
-or the path to the sub-page. I think this is handled by the htmllink() routine.
-
-> Went ahead and did this, IMHO the display is ok as-is. --[[Joey]]
-
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# Should not create an existing page
This might be a bug, but will discuss it here first.
>>> discussion, or users/discussion, but not index/discussion, since this
>>> page already exists. If all the pages existed, it would do the redirect
>>> thing. --[[Joey]]
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-# Refreshing RecentChanges page
-
-What do you think about refreshing RecentChanges page (via Meta Refresh Tag)?
-It can be useful for users like me which rather prefer watching the last changes
-in WWW browser tab than subscribing to page. --Pawel
-
-> Depends, if it were done the time period should be made configurable.
-> Unwanted server load due to refeshing could be a problem for some.
-> --[[Joey]]
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->> Yes, it should be configurable by ikiwiki admin. I believe he's not
->> stupid and he will not set too short refresh period to kill his server :)
->> I propose to add `recentchanges_refresh` variable in ikiwiki setup
->> to setting refresh period. If it's not defined, then ikiwiki doesn't put
->> refresh meta tag into `recentchanges.tmpl`. Do you like it? ;) --Pawel
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->>> Seems reasonable --[[Joey]]