-So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This turorial will walk
-you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]] and that has
-optional support for commits from the web.
+So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This tutorial will walk
+you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]], [[Git]],
+[[TLA]] or [[Mercurial]], and that has optional support for commits from the web.
+
+1. [[Install]] ikiwiki. See [[download]] for where to get it.
+
+2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
+
+ Pick three directories for respectively the repository (contains
+ the "master copy" and history); working copy (checked-out
+ files from the repository); and web pages (served by the web server).
+
+ For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
+ for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
+
+ REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
+ SRCDIR=~/wikiwc
+ DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
+
+3. Create the master rcs repository for your wiki.
+
+ # Subversion
+ svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
+ svn mkdir file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m create
+
+ # Git
+ mkdir $REPOSITORY
+ cd $REPOSITORY
+ git init-db
+ # Git requires something be in the repo to start with.
+ cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
+ git add .
+ git commit -m create -a
+ # No need to keep files in the master repository; so at this
+ # stage, you may want to remove all files (except .git) to
+ # save disk space.
+
+ # TLA
+ mkdir $REPOSITORY
+ tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
+ tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
+
+ # Mercurial
+ hg init $REPOSITORY
+
+4. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use
+ as its source directory.
+
+ # Subversion
+ svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk ~/wikiwc
+
+ # Git
+ # Create a local clone to save disk space and also to
+ # optimize performance. See git-clone(1).
+ git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
+
+ # TLA
+ mkdir $SRCDIR
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
+ tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
+ # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
+ # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
+ tla import
+
+ # Mercurial
+ # Mercurial uses a single repo approach, so no need to
+ # clone anything. Because the following examples
+ # refer to $SRCDIR, we symlink it:
+ ln -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
-1. [[Install]] ikiwiki.
-
- apt-get install ikiwiki # soon
-
- Ikiwiki requires [[MarkDown]] be installed, and also uses the following
- perl modules: `CGI::Session` `CGI::FormBuilder` `HTML::Template`
-
-2. Create the subversion repository for your wiki.
-
- svnadmin create /svn/wikirepo
- svn mkdir file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk -m create
+5. Build your wiki for the first time.
-3. Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use.
+ ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
- svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
+ Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
+ be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
-4. Create some files and add them into subversion. Or you might copy the
- files from /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki and check those in to get a
- head start on creating your wiki.
+6. Customise your wiki. The files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/` are
+ used if you don't have a custom version, so let's start by making a
+ custom version of the wiki's index page:
- echo "Welcome to my empty wiki." > ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn
- echo "Feel free to edit this page" > ~/wikiwc/sandbox.mdwn
- svn add ~/wikiwc/*.mdwn
- svn commit ~/wikiwc -m add
+ cd $SRCDIR
+ cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn .
+ $EDITOR index.mdwn
+
+ # Subversion
+ svn add index.mdwn
+ svn commit -m customised index.mdwn
+
+ # Git
+ git add index.mdwn
+ git commit -m customised index.mdwn
+ git push origin
-5. Build your wiki for the first time.
+ # TLA
+ tla add index.mdwn
+ tla commit
- ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ \
- /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates ~/public_html/wiki/ \
- --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
+ # Mercurial
+ hg add index.mdwn
+ hg commit -m customised index.mdwn
- Replace the url with the right url to your wiki. You should now
- be able to visit the url and see your page that you created earlier.
+ You can also add any files you like from scratch of course. Use the same
+ command as in step 5 to rebuild the wiki.
-6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
+7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
- --wikiname too. Get confortable with its command line.
+ `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
+ (see [[usage]]).
-7. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
+8. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. And it's
also getting old to have to manualy rebuild the wiki each time you
change a file. Time to introduce setup files.
`doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it.
Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
- ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir`,
- `templatedir` and `destdir` are the three directories you specify when
- running ikiwiki by hand. `svnrepo` is the path to your subversion
- repository. Make sure that all of these are pointing to the right
- directories, and read through and configure the rest of the file to your
- liking.
-
- Note that the default file has a block to configure a svn wrapper. This
- sets up a [[post-commit]] hook to update the wiki.
+ ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
+ `destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by
+ hand. `svnrepo` is the path to your subversion repository. Make sure
+ that all of these are pointing to the right directories, and read
+ through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.
+
+ If you want to use something other than subversion, comment out the
+ subversion configuration, and uncomment and edit the configuration for
+ your chosen RCS. Note that the default file has a block to configure a
+ [[post-commit]] wrapper to update the wiki. You need to uncomment the
+ related block for whatever RCS you use and comment out the other rcs
+ blocks.
When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
will set everything up and update your wiki.
-8. Set up [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web.
-
- Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the block for the cgi wrapper, make
- sure the filename for the cgi wrapper is ok, run
- `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
+9. Turn on additional features.
-9. Add [[PageHistory]] links to the top of pages. This requires you to have
- setup [[ViewCVS]] or something similar to access your [[Subversion]]
- repository. The `historyurl` setting makes ikiwiki add the links, and
- in that url, "[[]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So
- edit ikiwiki.setup and set `historyurl` to something like this:
-
- `http://svn.host/trunk/[[]]?root=wiki`
+ Now you have a basic wiki with a configuration file. Time to experiment
+ with ikiwiki's many features.
- Then run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` again.
+ Let's first enable a key wiki feature and set up [[CGI]] to allow
+ editing the wiki from the web. Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the
+ block for the cgi wrapper, make sure the filename for the cgi wrapper
+ is ok, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
+
+ There are lots of other configuration options in ikiwiki.setup that you
+ can uncomment, configure, and enable by re-running
+ `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`. Be sure to browse through all the
+ [[plugins]]..
-10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]
+10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]].