-I just attempted to install ikiwiki on my debian server (sudo aptitude install ikiwiki, followed by an attempt with apt-get just in case). However, the only file created in /etc/ikiwiki is the 'wikilist' file, which makes following the rest of the install instructions difficult. I was not able to quickly locate a place to dl the .setup files, either.
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-Thought you'd like to know.
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I just went through the standard procedure described for setup, copied the blog directory from examples into my source directory, ran ikiwiki, and everything seems to have worked, except that none of the
[[!meta ... ]] tags get converted. They simply show up in the html files unformatted, with no exclamation point, and with p tags around them. Any ideas? using ikiwiki version 2.40 on freebsd --mjg
> ikiwiki respects the umask, so if your umask is one that causes things to
> be group writable, they will by. If you want to override that, there is
> also a `umask ` setting in your setup file. --[[Joey]]
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+----
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+/etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup tries to get abs_path of a non-existent "repository" path, and that doesn't work in my perl:
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+[mort@localhost ~]$ perl -e 'use Cwd q{abs_path}; print abs_path("/var")'
+/var[mort@localhost ~]$ perl -e 'use Cwd q{abs_path}; print abs_path("/abcde")'
+[mort@localhost ~]$
+
+Because of this, /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup fails:
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+$ ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
+What will the wiki be named? wiki
+What revision control system to use? git
+What wiki user (or openid) will be admin? mort
+
+
+Setting up wiki ...
+internal error finding repository abs_path
+/etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup: failed to set up the repository with ikiwiki-makerepo
+
+usage: ikiwiki [options] source dest
+ ikiwiki --setup configfile
+$ perl -v
+
+This is perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
+(with 2 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
+
+Copyright 1987-2007, Larry Wall
+
+Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License or the
+GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source kit.
+
+Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found on
+this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl". If you have access to the
+Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.
+
+$
+
+Can't ikiwiki's "make test" perhaps test for this, so that one knows something will go wrong?
+-- Ivan Z.