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[NearlyFreeSpeech.net](http://NearlyFreeSpeech.net) is a shared hosting
provider with very cheap pay as you go pricing. Here's how to install ikiwiki
there if you don't have a dedicated server.
create a site using their web interface.
Mine is named `ikiwiki-test` and I used their DNS instead of getting my
-own, resulting in <http://ikiwiki-test.nfshost.com/>
+own, resulting in <http://ikiwiki-test.nfshost.com/>. (Not being kept up
+anymore.)
They gave me 2 cents free funding for signing up, which is enough to pay
for 10 megabytes of bandwidth, or about a thousand typical page views, at
mkdir ~/wiki
cd ~/wiki
cp -r ~/ikiwiki/doc/examples/blog/* .
- ikiwiki -dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup
+ ikiwiki --dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup
nano ikiwiki.setup
# Set destdir to /home/htdocs
# Set srcdir to /home/private/wiki
- # Set url to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/ , set cgiurl likewise
+ # Set url to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/
+ # Set cgiurl to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/ikiwiki.cgi
# Uncomment the `rcs => "git"` line.
# Set the cgi_wrapper path to /home/htdocs/ikiwiki.cgi
# Set the git_wrapper path to /home/private/wiki.git/hooks/post-update
# Configure the rest to your liking and save the file.
ikiwiki-makerepo git . ../wiki.git
- ikiwiki -setup ikiwiki.setup
+ ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup
## Clean up