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$ ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
What will the wiki be named? wiki
What revision control system to use? git
@@ -206,7 +229,46 @@ 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.
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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.
+
+---
+The mentioned docker image does not seem to be supported anymore. For those interested I've setup another docker image here on [[github|https://github.com/dgsb/docker-ikiwiki]] and here on [[docker hub|https://hub.docker.com/r/dgsb/ikiwiki/]]. It has the advantage of not being sandboxed and using a local repository through a volume to setup the content of the wiki. A ssh server is also started in order to push/pull to/from the container -- David