X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/14dce1a83a1fd0260eb28819813e372249dd83f8..8b19dea41debcd55fb4d76083470f269f4317f62:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index afc841cdb..df4e57aba 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -9,54 +9,209 @@ Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the # Installation/Setup questions -I ran into a problem when installing from svn. I got "invalid variable interpolation" errors for Wrappers.pm. I added the flag '--extract-all' to 'po/Makefile' and 'po/t' to the xgettext line. Once I did that I was able to make and make test just fine. - -I have just installed ikiwiki and it works - at least I have the example index.mdwn page -compiled and visible. However I have a few issues/problems:- +Ikiwiki creates a .ikiwiki directory in my wikiwc working directory. Should I +"svn add .ikiwiki" or add it to svn:ignore? -* A couple of the 'optional' Perl modules aren't optional, you can't install ikiwiki without them, -these are HTML::Template and HTML::Scrubber (at least I think it was these two, it's a bit messy -to go back and find out). +> `.ikiwiki` is used by ikiwiki to store internal state. You can add it to +> svn:ignore. --[[Joey]] +> > Thanks a lot. -> You're right, HTML::Template is required. HTML::Scrubber is only required -> in the default configuration, and is optional if the htmlscrubber plugin -> is disabled. --[[Joey]] +Is there an easy way to log via e-mail to some webmaster address, instead +of via syslog? -* I don't seem to have got an ikiwiki man page created. +> Not sure why you'd want to do that, but couldn't you use a tool like +> logwatch to mail selected lines from the syslog? --[[Joey]] -> It should be installed in /usr/share/man, or a similar directory -> depending on how your perl is set up and how you did the install. -> --[[Joey]] +> > The reason is that I'm not logged in on the web server regularly to +> > check the log files. I'll see whether I can install a logwatch instance. -> Found it, in /usr/local/share/man, since no other man pages are in either /usr/share/man or in /usr/local/share/man the ikiwiki -> man page is a bit lonely, and more to the point not on my MANPATH. Still I have found it now, I'll just move it to somewhere -> more sensible. [[Chris]] - -* Running "ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup" doesn't do anything. I have edited ikiwiki.setup to -my local settings. There are no errors but neither does anything get compiled. An ikiwiki -command to explicitly do the compile works fine. Am I misunderstanding something here? - -> Further tests indicate that ikiwiki isn't seeing changed files so doesn't always rebuild. -> How does ikiwiki decide when to rebuild? I tried a full command line like "ikiwiki --verbose ikiwiki ~/public_html/ikiwiki --url=http://www.isbd.ltd.uk/~chris/ikiwiki/" and that doesn't do anything -either though it was the command line I originally used to compile. After a long interval I 'touch'ed -the files and then it *did* compile but 'touch'ing the files after a few minutes only doesn't seem to force a recompile. I'm even more confused! - -> ikiwiki only compiles files whose modification times have changed. It -> should see any change made as close as a second after the last compile. -> When run with --setup, ikiwiki always rebuilds every file in the wiki. If -> --setup is not working, you must have it pointed at the wrong path or -> something; you can pass -v to see what it's doing. I don't know why it -> would not see recently changed files; you could try stracing it. -> --[[Joey]] +---- + +# 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 + +# Installation as non-root user + +I'd like to install ikiwiki as a non-root user. I can plow through getting all the +perl dependencies installed because that's well documented in the perl world, +but I don't know how to tell ikiwiki to install somewhere other than / --BrianWilson + +> Checkout the tips section for [SharedHosting](tips/SharedHosting). It should do the trick. --MattReynolds + +---- + +# Upgrade steps + +I upgrades from 1.40 to 2.6.1. I ran "ikiwiki --setup" using my existing ikiwiki.setup configuration. +I had many errors like: + + /home/bsdwiki/www/wiki/wikilink/index.html independently created, not overwriting with version from wikilink + BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 5) line 129. + +and: + + failed renaming /home/bsdwiki/www/wiki/smileys.ikiwiki-new to /home/bsdwiki/www/wiki/smileys: Is a directory + BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 5) line 129. + +Probably about six errors like this. I worked around this by removing the files and directories it complained about. +Finally it finished. + +> As of version 2.0, ikiwiki enables usedirs by default. See +> [[tips/switching_to_usedirs]] for details. --[[Joey]] + +>> I read the config wrong. I was thinking that it showed the defaults even though commented out +>> (like ssh configs do). I fixed that part. --JeremyReed + +My next problem was that ikiwiki start letting me edit without any password authentication. It used to prompt +me for a password but now just goes right into the "editing" mode. +The release notes for 2.0 say password auth is still on by default. + +> It sounds like you have the anonok plugin enabled? + +>> Where is the default documented? My config doesn't have it uncommented. + +The third problem is that when editing my textbox is empty -- no content. + +This is using my custom rcs.pm which has been used thousands of times. + +> Have you rebuilt the cgi wrapper since you upgraded ikiwiki? AFAIK I +> fixed a bug that could result in the edit box always being empty back in +> 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". + +> If the page is completly empty then ikiwiki is crashing before it can +> output anything, though this seems unlikely. Check the webserver logs. + +Now I see it created directories for my data. I fixed that by setting +usedirs (I see that is in the release notes for 2.0) and rerunning ikiwiki --setup +but I still have empty pages for editing (no textbox no html at all). + +> Is IkiWiki crashing? If so, it would probably leave error text in the apache logs. --[[TaylorKillian]] + +>> 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? + +> 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. + +Also I forgot to mention that do=recentchanges works good for me. It uses my +rcs_recentchanges in my rcs perl module. + +The do=prefs does nothing though -- just a blank webpage. + +> You need to figure out why ikiwiki is crashing. The webserver logs should +> tell you. + +I also set verbose => 1 and running ikiwiki --setup was verbose, but no changes in running CGI. +I was hoping for some output. + +I am guessing that my rcs perl module stopped working on the upgrade. I didn't notice any release notes +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 +create an entirely different website. I have same problem there. No prompt for password +and empty webpage when using the cgi. +I never upgraded any perl modules so maybe a new perl module is required but I don't see any errors so I don't know. + +The only errors I see when building and installing ikiwiki are: + + Can't exec "otl2html": No such file or directory at IkiWiki/Plugin/otl.pm line 66. + + gettext 0.14 too old, not updating the pot file + +I don't use GNU gettext on here. + +I may need to revert back to my old ikiwiki install which has been used to thousands of times (with around +1000 rcs commits via ikiwiki). + +--JeremyReed + +I downgraded to version 1.40 (that was what I had before I wrote wrong above). +Now ikiwiki is working for me again (but using 1.40). I shouldn't have tested on production system :) + +--JeremyReed + +I am back. On a different system, I installed ikiwiki 2.6.1. Same problem -- blank CGI webpage. -> OK, thanks, I don't quite know what was happening before but it seems to be working right now. -> --[[Chris]] +So I manually ran with: ->> Weird. I wish I knew what happened, but as it's working now, I'm ->> guessing some kind of user error was involved. --[[Joey]] + REQUEST_METHOD=GET QUERY_STRING='do=create&page=jcr' kiwiki.cgi -* I wish there was a mailing list, much easier for this sort of stuff than this, apart from -anything else I get to use a decent editor. +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? @@ -82,58 +237,37 @@ easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl). > > We will post the scripts as soon as we have them complete enough to convert our wikis. > -> -- Josh Triplett +> -- [[JoshTriplett]] >> Thanks for an excellent Xmas present, I will appreciate the additional >> users this will help switch to ikiwiki! --[[Joey]] ----- -# asciidoc or txt2tags ? +>> 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]] -Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags? -> No, but it should be quite easy to write such a plugin. The otl plugin -> is a good example of writing a formatting plugin that uses an external -> conversion program, like asciidoc or txt2tags. --[[Joey]] +>>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? -Any plugins or support for exporting to LaTeX? -(If not could use asciidoc or txt2tags mentioned above to generated LaTeX.) - -> It's already [[been_requested|todo/latex]], although perhaps not -> working the way you're thinking of. Noone is currently working on it. -> --[[Joey]] - ->> I did some tests with using Markdown and a customized HTML::Latex and html2latex ->> and it appears it will work for me now. (I hope to use ikiwiki for many ->> to collaborate on a printed book that will be generated at least once per day in PDF format.) ->> ->> --JeremyReed - ->>> Have a look at [pandoc](http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/). It can make PDFs via pdflatex. --[[roktas]] +Moved to [[todo/latex]] --[[Joey]] ---- # Using with CVS? -Any examples of using ikiwiki with cvs? - -> No, although the existing svn backend could fairly esily be modified into -> a CVS backend, by someone who doesn't mind working with CVS. --[[Joey]] +Moved to a [[todo_item|todo/CVS_backend]]. --[[JoshTriplett]] ---- # Show differences before saving page? -It would be nice to be able to have a button to show "Differences" (or "Show Diff") when -editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled? - -> It's doable, it could even be done by a [[todo/plugin]], I think. -> --[[Joey]] +Moved to the existing [[todo_item|todo/preview_changes]]. --[[JoshTriplett]] ---- @@ -142,15 +276,7 @@ editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled? Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form? -- [[JeremyReed]] -> Not currently. Worried about abuse? --[[Joey]] - ->> I didn't want it abused accidently or with malice. I was thinking that Perl's CGI.pm would handle this, but I don't see that. ->> I read that textarea max bytes may be 500 lines or 28000 characters or 30000 characters or 64kB. It seems like it ->> varies and I didn't test myself, because I guess it may depend on different clients and different HTTP servers. ->> This could be checked using javascript on the client side (before submitting) and by checking size on server side (before saving). --[[JeremyReed]] - ->>> The absolute limit varies by browser. If there are web servers that ->>> also limit it, I don't know of them. --[[Joey]] +>>> See [[todo/fileupload]] for an idea on limiting page size. --[[Joey]] ---- @@ -163,7 +289,7 @@ actions. However, it may not be something everyone appreciates. Any thoughts? --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) > Maybe, although it would need to take the critisism at -> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html into account. +> into account. >> Thank you for that link. Given that the edit link is the first thing you tab to >> in the current layout, I guess it isn't all that necessary. I have had a @@ -177,7 +303,7 @@ actions. However, it may not be something everyone appreciates. Any thoughts? It would be nice to be able to edit the stylesheet by means of the cgi. Or is this possible? I wasn't able to achieve it. Ok, that's my last 2 cents for a while. --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) -> I don't support editing it, but if/when ikiwiki gets file upload support, +> I don't support editing it, but if/when ikiwiki gets [[todo/fileupload]] support, > it'll be possible to upload a style sheet. (If .css is in the allowed > extensions list.. no idea how safe that would be, a style sheet is > probably a great place to put XSS attacks and evil javascript that would @@ -193,16 +319,6 @@ Ok, that's my last 2 cents for a while. --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) ---- -# RecentChanges should show path to wiki sub-pages? - -The RecentChanges only shows the final file name for the recently changes file, -for example "discussion". It would be more useful to see "index/discussion" -or the path to the sub-page. I think this is handled by the htmllink() routine. - -> Went ahead and did this, IMHO the display is ok as-is. --[[Joey]] - ----- - # Should not create an existing page This might be a bug, but will discuss it here first. @@ -221,20 +337,117 @@ Clicking on an old "?" or going to a create link but new Markdown content exists ---- -# Refreshing RecentChanges page +# User database tools? + +Any tool to view user database? + +Any tool to edit the user database? + +> No, but it's fairly easy to write such tools in perl. For example, to +> list all users in the user database: -What do you think about refreshing RecentChanges page (via Meta Refresh Tag)? -It can be useful for users like me which rather prefer watching the last changes -in WWW browser tab than subscribing to page. --Pawel + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $_ foreach keys %$userinfo' + http://joey.kitenet.net/ + foo -> Depends, if it were done the time period should be made configurable. -> Unwanted server load due to refeshing could be a problem for some. +> To list each user's email address: + + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $userinfo->{$_}->{email} foreach keys %$userinfo' + + joey@kitenet.net + +> Editing is simply a matter of changing values and calling Storable::store(). +> I've not written actual utilities to do this yet because I've only needed +> to do it rarely, and the data I've wanted has been different each time. > --[[Joey]] ->> Yes, it should be configurable by ikiwiki admin. I believe he's not ->> stupid and he will not set too short refresh period to kill his server :) ->> I propose to add `recentchanges_refresh` variable in ikiwiki setup ->> to setting refresh period. If it's not defined, then ikiwiki doesn't put ->> refresh meta tag into `recentchanges.tmpl`. Do you like it? ;) --Pawel +>> Thanks for these examples -- I have been using them. I don't know the +>> Storable yet. Can someone share an example of removing a user? (I now +>> setup account\_creation\_password and I have some spammer with different +>> login names that I have banned that I might as well remove from the +>> userdb.) + +>>> Let's see, you could do something like this: +>>> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); delete $$userinfo{"joey"}; Storable::lock_store($userinfo, "userdb")' +>>> I suppose I should stop being lame and create a command line tool wrapping up these operations.. --[[Joey]] + +---- + +# Spaces in WikiLinks? + +Hello Joey, + +I've just switched from ikiwiki 2.0 to ikiwiki 2.2 and I'm really surprised +that I can't use the spaces in WikiLinks. Could you please tell me why the spaces +aren't allowed in WikiLinks now? + +My best regards, + +--[[Paweł|ptecza]] + +> See [[bugs/Spaces_in_link_text_for_ikiwiki_links]] + +---- + +# Build in OpenSolaris? + +Moved to [[bugs/build_in_opensolaris]] --[[Joey]] + +---- + +# Various ways to use Subversion with ikiwiki + +I'm playing around with various ways that I can use subversion with ikiwiki. + +* Is it possible to have ikiwiki point to a subversion repository which is on a different server? The basic checkin/checkout functionality seems to work but there doesn't seem to be any way to make the post-commit hook work for a non-local server? + +> This is difficult to do since ikiwiki's post-commit wrapper expects to +> run on a machine that contains both the svn repository and the .ikiwiki +> state directory. However, with recent versions of ikiwiki, you can get +> away without running the post-commit wrapper on commit, and all you lose +> is the ability to send commit notification emails. + +> (And now that [[recentchanges]] includes rss, you can just subscribe to +> that, no need to worry about commit notification emails anymore.) + +* Is it possible / sensible to have ikiwiki share a subversion repository with other data (either completely unrelated files or another ikiwiki instance)? This works in part but again the post-commit hook seems problematic. + +--[[AdamShand]] + +> Sure, see ikiwiki's subversion repository for example of non-wiki files +> in the same repo. If you have two wikis in one repository, you will need +> to write a post-commit script that calls the post-commit wrappers for each +> wiki. + +---- + +# Regex for Valid Characters in Filenames + +I'm sure that this is documented somewhere but I've ransacked the wiki and I can't find it. :-( What are the allowed characters in an ikiwiki page name? I'm writing a simple script to make updating my blog easier and need to filter invalid characters (so far I've found that # and , aren't allowed ;-)). Thanks for any pointers. -- [[AdamShand]] + +> The default `wiki_file_regexp` matches filenames containing only +> `[-[:alnum:]_.:/+]` +> +> The IkiWiki::titlepage() function will convert freeform text to a valid +> page name. See [[todo/should_use_a_standard_encoding_for_utf_chars_in_filenames]] +> for an example. --[[Joey]] + +>> Perfect, thanks! +>> +>> In the end I decided that I didn't need any special characters in filenames and replaced everything but alphanumeric characters with underscores. In addition to replacing bad characters I also collapse multiple underscores into a single one, and strip off trailing and leading underscores to make tidy filenames. If it's useful to anybody else here's a sed example: +>> +>> # echo "++ Bad: ~@#$%^&*()_=}{[];,? Iki: +_-:./ Num: 65.5 ++" | sed -e 's/[^A-Za-z0-9_]/_/g' -e 's/__*/_/g' -e 's/^_//g' -e 's/_$//g' +>> Bad_Iki_Num_65_5 +>> +>>--[[AdamShand]] + +# Upgrade steps from RecentChanges CGI to static page? + +Where are the upgrade steps for RecentChanges change from CGI to static feed? +I run multiple ikiwiki-powered sites on multiple servers, but today I just upgraded one to 2.32.3. +Please have a look at + +Any suggestions? ->>> Seems reasonable --[[Joey]] +> There are no upgrade steps required. It does look like you need to enable +> the meta plugin to get a good recentchanges page though.. --[[Joey]]