X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/0e75e5c6fa4b8b556817adb31dba3db694ac180d..e9a40c8716afd6076c630a140186ee7b2ec9cfb4:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 3fadbcbeb..772aebaf9 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -27,6 +27,36 @@ of via syslog? ---- +# Installation of selected docs (html) + +The latest release has around 560 files (over 2MB) in html. + +Any suggestions or ideas on limiting what html is installed? + +For example, I don't see value in every ikiwiki install out there to also install personal "users" ikiwiki pages. + +For now I copy ikiwiki.setup. And then use pax with -L switch to copy the targets of the symlinks of the basewiki. + +I was thinking of making a list of desired documents from the html directory to install. + +--JeremyReed + +> You don't need any of them, unless you want to read ikiwiki's docs locally. +> +> I don't understand why you're installing the basewiki files manually; +> ikiwiki has a Makefile that will do this for you. --[[Joey]] + +>> The Makefile's install doesn't do what I want so I use different installer for it. +>> It assumes wrong location for man pages for me. (And it should consider using INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR and +>> MAN1EXT but I don't know about section 8 since I don't know of perl value for that.) +>> I don't want w3m cgi installed; it is optional for my package. +>> I will just patch for that instead of using my own installer. +>> Note: I am working on the pkgsrc package build specification for this. This is for creating +>> packages for NetBSD, DragonFly and other systems that use pkgsrc package system. +>> --JeremyReed + +---- + # Upgrade steps I upgrades from 1.40 to 2.6.1. I ran "ikiwiki --setup" using my existing ikiwiki.setup configuration. @@ -66,6 +96,9 @@ This is using my custom rcs.pm which has been used thousands of times. > version 2.3. The only other way it could happen is if ikiwiki does not > have saved state about the page that it's editing (in .ikiwiki/index). +>> Rebuilt it several times. Now that I think of it, I think my early problem of having +>> no content in the textbox was before I rebuilt the cgi. And after I rebuilt the whole webpage was empty. + Now I regenerated my ikiwiki.cgi again (no change to my configuration, and I just get an empty HTML page when attempting editing or "create". @@ -81,6 +114,11 @@ but I still have empty pages for editing (no textbox no html at all). >> Not using apache. Nothing useful in logs other thn the HTTP return codes are "0" and bytes is "-" >> on the empty ikiwiki.cgi output (should say " 200 " followed by bytes). +>>> You need to either figure out what your web server does with stderr +>>> from cgi programs, or run ikiwiki.cgi at the command line with an +>>> appropriate environment so it thinks it's being called from a web +>>> server, so you can see how it's failing. --[[Joey]] + (I am posting this now, but will do some research and post some more.) Is there any webpage with upgrade steps? @@ -88,6 +126,12 @@ Is there any webpage with upgrade steps? > Users are expected to read [[news]], which points out any incompatible > changes or cases where manual action is needed. +>> I read it but read the usedirs option wrong :(. +>> Also it appears to be missing the news from between 1.40 to 2.0 unless they dont' exist. +>> If they do exist maybe they have release notes I need? + +>>> All the old ones are in the NEWS file. --[[Joey]] + --JeremyReed My followup: I used a new ikiwiki.setup based on the latest version. But no changes for me. @@ -109,6 +153,8 @@ on changes to revision control modules. Has something changed? I will also look. > No, the rcs interface has not needed to change in a long time. Also, > nothing is done with the rcs for do=prefs. +>> Thanks. I also checked differences between 1.40 Rcs plugins and didn't notice anything significant. + --JeremyReed Another Followup: I created a new ikiwiki configuration and did the --setup to @@ -134,6 +180,31 @@ Now ikiwiki is working for me again (but using 1.40). I shouldn't have tested on --JeremyReed +I am back. On a different system, I installed ikiwiki 2.6.1. Same problem -- blank CGI webpage. + +So I manually ran with: + + REQUEST_METHOD=GET QUERY_STRING='do=create&page=jcr' kiwiki.cgi + +And clearly saw the error: + + [IkiWiki::main] Fatal: Bad template engine CGI::FormBuilder::Template::div: Can't locate CGI/FormBuilder/Template/div.pm + +So I found my version was too old and 3.05 is the first to provide "Div" support. I upgraded my p5-CGI-FormBuilder to 3.0501. +And ikiwiki CGI started working for me. + +The Ikiwiki docs about this requirement got removed in Revision 4367. There should be a page that lists the requirements. +(I guess I could have used the debian/control file.) + +> There is a page, [[install]] documents that 3.05 is needed. + +>> Sorry, I missed that. With hundreds of wikipages it is hard to read all of them. +>> I am updating the download page now to link to it. + +I am now using ikiwiki 2.6.1 on my testing system. + +--JeremyReed + ---- # Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site? @@ -163,6 +234,15 @@ easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl). >> Thanks for an excellent Xmas present, I will appreciate the additional >> users this will help switch to ikiwiki! --[[Joey]] + +>> Sounds great indeed. Learning from [here](http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/AboutTheTWikiToIkiwikiConversion/) that HTML::WikiConverter needed for your conversion was not up-to-date on Debian I have now done an unofficial package, including your proposed Markdown patches, apt-get'able at 
deb http://debian.jones.dk/ sid wikitools
+>> -- [[JonasSmedegaard]] + + +>>I see the "We will post the scripts ...." was committed about a year ago. A current site search for "Moin" does not turn them up. Any chance of an appearance in the near (end of year) future? +>> +>> -- [[MichaelRasmussen]] + ---- # LaTeX support?