-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.
-
-Thought you'd like to know.
+I have copied over the ikiwiki.setup file from /usr/share/doc/ikiwiki/ to /etc/ikiwiki/ and run it after editing. My site gets built but when I click on the 'edit' button, firefox and google chrome download the cgi file instead of creating a way to edit it. The permissions on my ikiwiki.cgi script look like this: -rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 13359 2009-10-13 19:21 ikiwiki.cgi. Is there something I should do, i.e. change permissions, so I can get it to run correctly? (jeremiah)
+> Have a look [[here|tips/dot_cgi]]. --[[Jogo]]
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
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-I apologize if this is the incorrect forum for this question, but I am trying to get ikiwiki set up and running with git. I followed all the directions and all seems to work until I go back and try to make changes. The steps I am performing:
+I apologize if this is the incorrect forum for this question, but I am
+trying to get ikiwiki set up and running with git. I followed all the
+directions and all seems to work until I go back and try to make changes.
+The steps I am performing:
cd $SRCDIR (e.g. ~/ikisrc)
vim index.mdwn (add a couple lines)
git commit -a -m 'test'
git push
-I then get a long error message which reads in part "You asked me to pull without telling me which branch you
-want to merge with, and 'branch.master.merge' in your configuration file does not tell me either." From that point on, I get:
+I then get a long error message which reads in part "You asked me to pull
+without telling me which branch you want to merge with, and
+'branch.master.merge' in your configuration file does not tell me either."
+From that point on, I get:
sws@odin:~/dev/ikisrc$ git push
To /home/git/repos/myikiwiki.git
! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast forward)
error: failed to push to '/home/git/repos/myikiwiki.git'
-If I do a git clone ssh://odin/path/to/$REPOSITORY from another machine and try to edit I get the same error sequence. What am I doing wrong?
+If I do a git clone ssh://odin/path/to/$REPOSITORY from another machine and
+try to edit I get the same error sequence. What am I doing wrong?
+
+> I don't know. The only time I have seen this message is when
+> the master git repository was not bare. All current instructions and
+> `ikiwiki-makerepo` have a proper bare repo used for the master
+> repository, but perhaps you followed some old, broken instructions, or
+> forgot to make it bare? --[[Joey]]
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-I follow every steps of the setup procedure, change some templates and tried to modify some page through the web but was not able to do so. Every page seems to be locked by the adminuser user. When I remove the adminuser in the setup file, every ran fine. Did I miss something ? What is exactly the adminuser supposed to be allowed to ? Is he the only user allowed to modify pages ?
+I follow every steps of the setup procedure, change some templates and
+tried to modify some page through the web but was not able to do so. Every
+page seems to be locked by the adminuser user. When I remove the adminuser
+in the setup file, every ran fine. Did I miss something ? What is exactly
+the adminuser supposed to be allowed to ? Is he the only user allowed to
+modify pages ?
> This was a bug in ikwiki that was fixed in version 2.44. --[[Joey]]
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-I hope you guys can put up with an absolute newbie. I am fairly new to linux and completely new to Perl. I have just installed MoinMoin locally in my PC, running ubuntu 8.4 and was about to use it until I ran into your ikiwiki. I thought ikiwiki is a better fit for what I want to do, so am seriously considering installing it as well in ubuntu. Except that the install seems way beyond my understanding.
+
+pI hope you guys can put up with an absolute newbie. I am fairly new to linux and completely new to Perl. I have just installed MoinMoin locally in my PC, running ubuntu 8.4 and was about to use it until I ran into your ikiwiki. I thought ikiwiki is a better fit for what I want to do, so am seriously considering installing it as well in ubuntu. Except that the install seems way beyond my understanding.
Do i need to install git first? Which git -- the git-core? Ubuntu's instructions on installing the git-core is: "sudo apt-get install git-core". Is that it? Do I need to do a git-init as well, or will the ikiwiki-makerepo handle that? If I have to do a git-init as well, what --share values should I specify?
> 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]]
+
+----
+
+/etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup tries to get abs_path of a non-existent
+"repository" path (in ikiwiki-makerepo), and that doesn't work in my perl:
+
+<pre>
+[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 ~]$
+</pre>
+
+Because of this, /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup fails:
+
+<pre>
+$ 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.
+
+$
+</pre>
+
+Can't ikiwiki's "make test" perhaps test for this, so that one knows something will go wrong?
+-- Ivan Z.
+
+> FWIW, I tried the same thing with perl 5.8.8 from Debian etch, and its
+> Cwd does not have the problem. But I've modified `ikiwiki-makerepo` to
+> avoid using `abs_path` this way anyhow. --[[Joey]]
+
+Thank you! I'm not a Perl programmer, so what's your opinion: is this behavior a violation of the specification of abs_path and I should report it to [ALTLinux](http://bugs.altlinux.org) (the distro)? --Ivan Z.
+
+> That is not entirely clear to me from the documentation. It doesn't
+> say the path has to exist, but doesn't say it cannot either. --[[Joey]]
+
+I am experiencing the same problem "/etc/ikiwiki/custom: failed to set up the repository with ikiwiki-makerepo
+" on Debian squeeze with perl5.10.0. Upgrading to ikiwiki 3.10 fixes it. -- [Albert](http://www.docunext.com/)
+
+----
+
+Just a note, perl 5.10 isn't packaged as part of RHEL or thus CentOS nor EPEL,
+so it's not especially trivial to satisfy that requirement for ikiwiki on
+those platforms, without backporting it from Fedora or building from source.
+However, I have an ikiwiki 3.20100403 running on RHEL-4 supplied 5.8.8 without
+(seemingly too much) complaint. How strong is the 5.10 requirement? what
+precicely breaks without it? -- [[Jon]]
+
+> I don't remember what was the specific problem with perl 5.8.8. All I can
+> find is some taint checking bugs, which are currently worked around by
+> taint checking being disabled. --[[Joey]]
+
+---
+
+Did anyone tried to install ikiwiki under a vhost setup ?
+ikiwiki is installed under a debian lenny system. but without write acces to /etc/ikiwiki (obvious) i am coming not far.
+Or do i miss something which is probably hidden deeper in the documentation ?
+
+Well it should be similar to shared hosting [or a remote server in general](http://ikiwiki.info/forum/how_to_setup_ikiwiki_on_a_remote_host/)
+
+----
+Perhaps it's worth noting that when installing ikiwiki with apt on Debian stable, you need to use the backports version in order to follow the setup instructions.