X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/b51159b019b1c1e34ea63400c9378c111637265d..12d947a02f2feacc6524851a40751767f04bb48d:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 2b0d09864..af3884dfb 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -5,54 +5,25 @@ 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 +[[toc ]] -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:- +# Installation/Setup questions -* 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 creates a .ikiwiki directory in my wikiwc working directory. Should I +"svn add .ikiwiki" or add it to svn:ignore? -> 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]] +> `.ikiwiki` is used by ikiwiki to store internal state. You can add it to +> svn:ignore. --[[Joey]] +> > Thanks a lot. -* I don't seem to have got an ikiwiki man page created. +Is there an easy way to log via e-mail to some webmaster address, instead +of via syslog? -> 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]] +> 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]] -> OK, thanks, I don't quite know what was happening before but it seems to be working right now. -> --[[Chris]] - ->> Weird. I wish I knew what happened, but as it's working now, I'm ->> guessing some kind of user error was involved. --[[Joey]] - -* 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. +> > 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. ---- # Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site? @@ -78,92 +49,28 @@ 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]] ---- -# 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? - -> 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]] - ----- - # 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]] ---- @@ -172,21 +79,7 @@ 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]] - ----- - -# Disable sub-discussion pages? - -Moved to [[bugs]] -- [[Joey]] +>>> See [[todo/fileupload]] for an idea on limiting page size. --[[Joey]] ---- @@ -199,7 +92,7 @@ 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 @@ -213,7 +106,7 @@ 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 @@ -229,56 +122,6 @@ 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. @@ -297,25 +140,26 @@ Clicking on an old "?" or going to a create link but new Markdown content exists ---- -# Refreshing RecentChanges page +# User database tools? -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 +Any tool to view user database? -> 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]] +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: -# Fall back for templatedir + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $_ foreach keys %$userinfo' + http://joey.kitenet.net/ + foo -It would be nice if you didn't have to copy all templates to your custom _templatedir_ -so you only have your customizations there. -And then have it fall back to the location as configured at build time (like /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates/). -This would be similar to _underlaydir_. I don't think any extra configuration directive is needed. -As it is now, RecentChanges will have Perl CGI error and Preferences will be an empty page, if you don't have corresponding templates. -I can quickly make a patch and submit to the patch queue. Any comments? +> To list each user's email address: -> I'd probably accept a patch immediately. --[[Joey]] + 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]]