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.
+## Quick start
+
+If you'd like to set up a wiki now, and learn more later, and you have
+ikiwiki 2.60 or better installed, just run this command and answer a couple
+of questions.
+
+ % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
+ What will the wiki be named? mywiki
+ What revision control system to use? git
+ What wiki user (or openid) will be wiki admin? joey
+
+Wait for it to tell you an url for your new wiki.. Done!
+
+(If the CGI doesn't seem to let you edit pages, you might need to
+[[configure_apache|tips/apache_cgi]] or [[configure_lighttpd|tips/lighttpd_cgi]].)
+
## Decide where your wiki's files will go.
As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
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
+settings for the `cgi_wrapper`, make sure the filename for the cgi wrapper
is ok, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
There are lots of other configuration options in ikiwiki.setup that you
[[!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@example.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
+ # This assumes that you have already used "mtn genkey you@hostname".
+ REPOSITORY=~/wiki.monotone
+ ikiwiki-makerepo monotone $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
"""]]
## Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
-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. Be sure to set `svnrepo` to $REPOSITORY, if using
-subversion. Uncomment the block for the wrapper for your revision
-control system, and configure the wrapper path in that block
-appropriately (for Git, it should be `$REPOSITORY/hooks/post-update`).
+Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system, you should
+configure ikiwiki to use revision control. Edit your ikiwiki.setup, set
+`rcs` to the the revision control system you chose to use. Be sure to set
+`svnrepo` to the directory for your repository, if using subversion.
+Uncomment the configuration for the wrapper for your revision control
+system, and configure the wrapper path appropriately (for Git, it should be
+the path to `hooks/post-update` inside the bare git repository).
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