Merge branch 'master' of ssh://git.ikiwiki.info/srv/git/ikiwiki.info

[git.ikiwiki.info.git] / doc / setup.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/setup.mdwn b/doc/setup.mdwn
index 89143bd8d53abb86593452b91a180033b7b106ff..ac491baae78f9422fc30fab1324cc0a315fb0f2b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/setup.mdwn
+++ b/doc/setup.mdwn
@@ -47,8 +47,7 @@ Now you can go to the url it told you, and edit pages in your new wiki
 using the web interface.
 
 (If the web interface doesn't seem to allow editing or login, you may
-need to configure [[apache|tips/apache_cgi]] or 
-[[lighttpd|tips/lighttpd_cgi]].)
+need to [[configure_the_web_server|tips/dot_cgi]].)
 
 ## Checkout and edit wiki source
 
@@ -66,8 +65,10 @@ source. (Remember to replace "foo" with the real directory name.)
 
        git clone foo.git foo.src
        svn checkout file://`pwd`/foo.svn/trunk foo.src
+       cvs -d `pwd`/foo get -P ikiwiki
        bzr clone foo foo.src
        hg clone foo foo.src
+       darcs get foo.darcs foo.src
        # TODO monotone, tla
 
 Now to edit pages by hand, go into the directory you checked out (ie,
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@ These range from changing the wiki's name, to enabling [[plugins]],
 to banning users and locking pages.
 
 If you log in as the admin user you configured earlier, and go to
-your Preferences page, you can click on "Wiki Setup" to customize many
+your Preferences page, you can click on "Setup" to customize many
 wiki settings and plugins.
 
 Some settings cannot be configured on the web, for security reasons or
@@ -102,6 +103,12 @@ After making changes to this file, you need to tell ikiwiki to use it:
 
        % ikiwiki -setup foo.setup
 
+Alternatively, you can ask ikiwiki to change settings in the file for you:
+
+       % ikiwiki -changesetup foo.setup -plugin goodstuff
+
+See [[usage]] for more options.
+
 ## Customizing file locations
 
 As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
@@ -111,26 +118,24 @@ a working copy checked out from the version control system repository.
 When you used `auto.setup`, ikiwiki put the source directory, destination
 directory, and repository in your home directory, and told you the location
 of each. Those locations were chosen to work without customization, but you
-might want to move them to different directories. There are three steps to
-this process.
+might want to move them to different directories.
 
-1. Move the destination directory and repository around.
+First, move the destination directory and repository around.
    
-       % mv public_html/foo /srv/web/foo.com
-       % mv foo.git /srv/git/foo.git
+       % mv public_html/foo /srv/web/foo.com
+       % mv foo.git /srv/git/foo.git
 
-2. Create a new source directory checkout. If you moved the repository
-   to a new location, checkouts pointing at the old location won't work,
-   and the easiest way to deal with this is to delete them and re-checkout
-   from the new repository location.
+If you moved the repository to a new location, checkouts pointing at the
+old location won't work, and the easiest way to deal with this is to delete
+them and re-checkout from the new repository location.
    
-       % rm -rf foo
-       % git clone /src/git/foo.git
+       % rm -rf foo
+       % git clone /src/git/foo.git
 
-3. Edit the setup file. Modify the settings for `srcdir`, `destdir`,
-   `url`, `cgiurl`, `cgi_wrapper`, `git_wrapper`, etc to reflect where
-   you moved things. Remember to run `ikiwiki -setup` after editing the
-   setup file.
+Finally, edit the setup file. Modify the settings for `srcdir`, `destdir`,
+`url`, `cgiurl`, `cgi_wrapper`, `git_wrapper`, etc to reflect where
+you moved things. Remember to run `ikiwiki -setup` after editing the
+setup file.
 
 ## Enjoy your new wiki!