X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/a45647c765d42cae19aaddb828fb42e1f68b247e..5a8719f4b090e90ba237233b2bbfce98781f8cfb:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 772aebaf9..df4e57aba 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -55,6 +55,14 @@ I was thinking of making a list of desired documents from the html directory to >> 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 @@ -353,6 +361,16 @@ Any tool to edit the user database? > to do it rarely, and the data I've wanted has been different each time. > --[[Joey]] +>> 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? @@ -389,6 +407,9 @@ I'm playing around with various ways that I can use subversion with ikiwiki. > 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]] @@ -397,3 +418,36 @@ I'm playing around with various ways that I can use subversion with ikiwiki. > 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? + +> 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]]