X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/be89d6749eca74a3cfe80a86fa8416e8c8a2367b..b63f1260eef70cf7eb1703ebae1244db7cef0583:/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn b/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn index 3a389ca3a..f9da223ac 100644 --- a/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +[[!meta date="2008-05-05 14:51:26 -0400"]] + [NearlyFreeSpeech.net](http://NearlyFreeSpeech.net) is a shared hosting provider with very cheap pay as you go pricing. Here's how to install ikiwiki there if you don't have a dedicated server. @@ -14,7 +16,8 @@ After you [get an account](https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/start.php), create a site using their web interface. Mine is named `ikiwiki-test` and I used their DNS instead of getting my -own, resulting in +own, resulting in . (Not being kept up +anymore.) They gave me 2 cents free funding for signing up, which is enough to pay for 10 megabytes of bandwidth, or about a thousand typical page views, at @@ -42,7 +45,12 @@ Use `wget` to [[download]] the ikiwiki tarball. Then unpack it: ## Install perl modules -Use CPAN to install the perl modules it uses into your home directory: +As an optional step, you can use CPAN to install the perl modules ikiwiki +uses into your home directory. This should not be necessary, mostly, +because the system has most modules installed already. + +So, you might want to skip this step and come back to it later if ikiwiki +doesn't work. PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")' @@ -71,19 +79,19 @@ Here is an example of how I set up a wiki: mkdir ~/wiki cd ~/wiki - cp ~/ikiwiki/doc/ikiwiki.setup . cp -r ~/ikiwiki/doc/examples/blog/* . + ikiwiki --dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup nano ikiwiki.setup # Set destdir to /home/htdocs # Set srcdir to /home/private/wiki - # Set url to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/ , set cgiurl likewise - # Uncomment the `rcs => "git"` line, and the cgi and git - # post-update wrapper blocks. - # Set the cgi wrapper path to /home/htdocs/ikiwiki.cgi - # Set the git wrapper path to /home/private/wiki.git/hooks/post-update + # Set url to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/ + # Set cgiurl to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/ikiwiki.cgi + # Uncomment the `rcs => "git"` line. + # Set the cgi_wrapper path to /home/htdocs/ikiwiki.cgi + # Set the git_wrapper path to /home/private/wiki.git/hooks/post-update # Configure the rest to your liking and save the file. ikiwiki-makerepo git . ../wiki.git - ikiwiki -setup ikiwiki.setup + ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup ## Clean up @@ -94,7 +102,7 @@ dollars. rm -rf ~/ikiwiki*.tar.gz ~/.cpan ~/ikiwiki ~/man ~/lib/perl5/5.8.8 -That should cut things down to less than 4 megabytes. If you want to save +That should cut things down to less than 2 megabytes. If you want to save even more space, delete unused perl modules from ~/lib/perl5 ## Enjoy!