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.
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
hg commit -m "initial import"
"""]]
+ [[toggle id=monotone text="Monotone"]]
+ [[toggleable id=montone 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.
Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system,
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.