X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/66ea9112019913a6751615f39cc509ea70559c56..4fa96790733a8bee2f3977e4979da122a0fe9ba2:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 2e3868429..7f82e87ce 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -5,54 +5,12 @@ Do so here.. Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the [[bugs]] and [[todo]] pages. -# Installation/Setup questions - -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:- - -* 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). - -> 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]] - -* I don't seem to have got an ikiwiki man page created. - -> 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]] - -> 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]] - -> OK, thanks, I don't quite know what was happening before but it seems to be working right now. -> --[[Chris]] +[[toc ]] ->> Weird. I wish I knew what happened, but as it's working now, I'm ->> guessing some kind of user error was involved. --[[Joey]] +# Installation/Setup questions -* 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. +(I've moved HarleyPig's problem to its [[own_page|bugs/xgettext_issue]] +--[[Joey]]) ---- # Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site? @@ -85,40 +43,6 @@ easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl). ---- -# OpenID - -I just figured I'd edit something on the page with my OpenID, since you've implemented it! --*[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)*= - -> Kyle, If you like openid, I can switch your personal wiki over to use your openid. --[[Joey]] - ----- - -# ACL - -> Moved to [[todo/ACL]] --[[Joey]] - ----- - -Some questions about the RecentChanges function. -- Ethan - -> (Moved to [[todo/recentchanges]] --[[Joey]]) - ----- - -Also, I'd like to request another template parameter which is just -$config{url}. That way you won't have to hard-code the URL of the wiki into -the template. -- Ethan - -> That's already available in the BASEURL parameter. --[[Joey]] - ----- - -# Canonical feed location? - -Moved to [[todo/canonical_feed_location]] --[[Joey]] - ----- - # asciidoc or txt2tags ? Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags? @@ -184,12 +108,6 @@ Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form ---- -# Disable sub-discussion pages? - -Moved to [[bugs]] -- [[Joey]] - ----- - # Access Keys Would anyone else find this a valuable addition. In oddmuse and instiki (the only other @@ -229,56 +147,6 @@ Ok, that's my last 2 cents for a while. --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) ---- -# Disable build/install requirement on PerlMagick - -Some installs of PerlMagick require X11. I tried to first disable using "img" by using "--disable-plugin img" -in the Makefile. But still failed. My workaround was to remove "img" from the bundle in IkiWiki/Plugin/goodstuff.pm -before building. What is the recommended way to install ikiwiki without "img" support? --[[JeremyReed]] - -> I've fixed this in svn so plugins in goodstuff can be disabled. --[[Joey]] - ----- - -# Documentation for banning users? - -The [[todo]] page says admins can ban users. Where is this documented? I search the source and found -set\_banned\_users() which led me to the CGI "preferences" form for the admin. Now logged in as an admin (as defined in my setup configuration), -I see the field for this. But no details on how to use it. From the source it appears to be a space-delimited list of usernames. (I didn't test yet.) - -Can you please provide a [[/banned_users]] documentation about "banning" users function linked from the [[Features]] page and maybe [[security]] page and linked from the "preferences" for the admin? -(I don't do this myself as I am unsure about this and still reading the code about banning users.) - ----- - -# Documentation for locking pages? - -The [[features]] page, the [[todo]] page and the [[usage]] manual page say pages can be locked and only the admin can edit locked pages. -Where is locking pages documented? ... A moment later, from searching source I found this is configured via the preferences for the admin -and that links to [[pagespec]]. - -Can you please provide a [[/page_locking]] doc about locking pages linked from the [[features]] page and elsewhere? And have that link to [[pagespec]]? -(I don't do this myself as I am unsure about this and still reading the code about locking pages.) - ----- - -# 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. - ->> IMHO it's a good idea and I like it. Often I can see changes in ->> any discussion page, but I don't know without clicking the link ->> what discussion was changed. - ->> However, I can see one problem here. You can commit via command line ->> changes in many pages. It will be displayed ugly then, because probably ->> a width of the RecentChanges page will be greater then a width of ->> user's browser. I hate these pages. So I propose to display a list of ->> changed pages in a column, not in a row. --Pawel - ----- - # Should not create an existing page This might be a bug, but will discuss it here first. @@ -294,23 +162,3 @@ Clicking on an old "?" or going to a create link but new Markdown content exists >>> discussion, or users/discussion, but not index/discussion, since this >>> page already exists. If all the pages existed, it would do the redirect >>> thing. --[[Joey]] - ----- - -# Refreshing RecentChanges page - -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 - -> Depends, if it were done the time period should be made configurable. -> Unwanted server load due to refeshing could be a problem for some. -> --[[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 - ->>> Seems reasonable --[[Joey]]