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Decide where your wiki's files will go. +## Install ikiwiki - As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source - directory, and outputs the files to a destination directory. +If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, ikiwiki is an apt-get install ikiwiki away. +If you're not, see the [[download]] and [[install]] pages. - For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables - for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow. +You may also want to try out a sandboxed [[Docker image|https://github.com/elecnix/ikiwiki-docker]] +with ikiwiki pre-installed or this other [[one|https://github.com/dgsb/docker-ikiwiki]] which will use a volume to access a local git repository +for the wiki content. - SRCDIR=~/wikiwc - DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/ +## Create your wiki -3. Create the beginnings of your wiki. +All it takes to create a fully functional wiki using ikiwiki is running +one command. +[[!template id=note text=""" +For more control, advanced users may prefer to set up a wiki +[[by_hand|byhand]]. +"""]] - This will create a simple main page for the wiki. + % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup - mkdir $SRCDIR - cd $SRCDIR - $EDITOR index.mdwn +Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead. - In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like - [[toggle id=page text="this one"]]. - - [[toggleable id=page text=""" - Welcome to your new wiki. - All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]], - so this one does too. - ---- - This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net). - """]] - - See [[HelpOnFormatting]] for details about the markup language. + % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup - Note that several standard wiki pages will be added to your wiki, from - files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/`, so your wiki will automatically - get a [[SandBox]], and some other useful pages. +`librpc-xml-perl` and `python-docutils` dependencies are needed. -4. Build your wiki for the first time. +Either way, it will ask you a couple of questions. - ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://host/~you/wiki/ + What will the wiki be named? foo + What revision control system to use? git + What wiki user (or openid) will be admin? joey + Choose a password: - Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now - be able to visit the url and see your wiki. +Then, wait for it to tell you an url for your new site.. -5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding - the wiki. - - To quickly get started on a common task like blogging with ikiwiki, you - can copy in files from the [[examples]]. The examples are located in - `doc/examples/` in the ikiwiki source package. + Successfully set up foo: + url: http://example.com/~joey/foo + srcdir: ~/foo + destdir: ~/public_html/foo + repository: ~/foo.git + To modify settings, edit ~/foo.setup and then run: + ikiwiki --setup ~/foo.setup - You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as `--wikiname` - and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see - [[usage]]). +Done! -6. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line - options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. Time to - introduce setup files. - - A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from - `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it. - - Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as - ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and - `destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by - hand. Make sure that these are pointing to the right directories, and - read through and configure the rest of the file to your liking. +## Using the web interface - When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it - will set everything up. +Now you can go to the url it told you, and edit pages in your new wiki +using the web interface. -7. Turn on additional features. +(If the web interface doesn't seem to allow editing or login, you may +need to [[configure_the_web_server|tips/dot_cgi]].) - Now you have a basic wiki with a configuration file. Time to experiment - with ikiwiki's many features. - - Let's first enable a key wiki feature and set up [[CGI]] to allow - editing the wiki from the web. Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the - block for the cgi wrapper, make sure the filename for the cgi wrapper - is ok, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done! +## Checkout and edit wiki source - There are lots of other configuration options in ikiwiki.setup that you - can uncomment, configure, and enable by re-running - `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`. Be sure to browse through all the - [[plugins]].. +Part of the fun of using ikiwiki is not being limited to using the +web for editing pages, and instead using your favorite text editor and +[[Revision_Control_System|rcs]]. -8. Put your wiki in revision control. +To do this, you need to check out a copy of the source to your wiki. +(You should avoid making changes directly to the `srcdir`, as that +checkout is reserved for use by ikiwiki itself.) - At this point you might want to check your wiki in to a revision control - system you can get history of past changes and revert edits. Depending - on the revision control system you choose, the way this is done varies. - - There's little that's ikiwiki specific about these instructions; this is - just how you put a directory under revision control using the various - systems that ikiwiki supports. Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is - where ikiwiki keeps its state, and should be preserved, but not checked - into revision control. - - [[toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]] - [[toggleable id=subversion text=""" - REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo - svnadmin create $REPOSITORY - svn mkdir file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "create trunk" - cd $SRCDIR - svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk . - svn add * - svn commit -m "initial import" - """]] +Depending on which [[Revision_Control_System|rcs]] you chose to use, +you can run one of these commands to check out your own copy of your wiki's +source. (Remember to replace "foo" with the real directory name.) + + git clone foo.git foo.src + svn checkout file://`pwd`/foo.svn/trunk foo.src + cvs -d `pwd`/foo get -P ikiwiki + bzr clone foo foo.src + hg clone foo foo.src + darcs get foo.darcs foo.src + # TODO monotone, tla + +Now to edit pages by hand, go into the directory you checked out (ie, +"foo.src"), and fire up your text editor to edit `index.mdwn` or whatever +other page you want to edit. If you chose to set up a blog, there is even a +sample first post in `posts/first_post.mdwn` that you can edit. + +Once you've edited a page, use your revision control system to commit +the changes. For distributed revision control systems, don't forget to push +your commit. + +Once the commit reaches the repository, ikiwiki will notice it, and +automatically update the wiki with your changes. + +## Customizing the wiki + +There are lots of things you can configure to customize your wiki. +These range from changing the wiki's name, to enabling [[plugins]], +to banning users and locking pages. + +If you log in as the admin user you configured earlier, and go to +your Preferences page, you can click on "Setup" to customize many +wiki settings and plugins. + +Some settings cannot be configured on the web, for security reasons or +because misconfiguring them could break the wiki. To change these settings, +you can manually edit the setup file, which is named something like +"foo.setup". The file lists all available configuration settings +and gives a brief description of each. + +After making changes to this file, you need to tell ikiwiki to use it: + + % ikiwiki --setup foo.setup + +Alternatively, you can ask ikiwiki to change settings in the file for you: + + % ikiwiki --changesetup foo.setup --plugin goodstuff + +See [[usage]] for more options. + +## Customizing file locations + +As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory, +and outputs the files to a destination directory. The source directory is +a working copy checked out from the version control system repository. + +When you used `auto.setup`, ikiwiki put the source directory, destination +directory, and repository in your home directory, and told you the location +of each. Those locations were chosen to work without customization, but you +might want to move them to different directories. + +First, move the destination directory and repository around. - [[toggle id=git text="Git"]] - [[toggleable id=git text=""" - REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo - mkdir $REPOSITORY - cd $REPOSITORY - git init-db - cp -a $SRCDIR/* . - git add . - git commit -m "initial import" -a - mv $SRCDIR/.ikiwiki . - rm -rf $SRCDIR - git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR - """]] - - [[toggle id=tla text="TLA"]] - [[toggleable id=tla text=""" - REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo - tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY - tla my-id "" - cd $SRCDIR - tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0 - tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0 - # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious - # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp. - tla add * - tla import - """]] - - [[toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]] - [[toggleable id=mercurial text=""" - REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR - hg init $REPOSITORY - cd $REPOSITORY - hg add * - hg commit -m "initial import" - """]] - -9. Configure ikiwiki to use revision control. - - Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system, - you should configure ikiwiki to use revision control. Edit your - ikiwiki.setup, and uncomment the lines for the revision control system - you chose to use. Be sure to set `svnrepo` to $REPOSITORY, if using - subversion. Uncomment the block for the wrapper for your revision - control system, and configure the wrapper path in that block - appropriately. + % mv public_html/foo /srv/web/foo.com + % mv foo.git /srv/git/foo.git + +If you moved the repository to a new location, checkouts pointing at the +old location won't work, and the easiest way to deal with this is to delete +them and re-checkout from the new repository location. - Once it's all set up, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` once more. - Now you should be able to edit files in $SRCDIR, and use your revision - control system to commit them, and the wiki will automatically update. - And in the web interface, RecentChanges should work, and files changed - by web users will also be committed using revision control. + % rm -rf foo + % git clone /srv/git/foo.git + +Finally, edit the setup file. Modify the settings for `srcdir`, `destdir`, +`url`, `cgiurl`, `cgi_wrapper`, `git_wrapper`, etc to reflect where +you moved things. Remember to run `ikiwiki --setup` after editing the +setup file. + +## Enjoy your new wiki! + +Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]. And check out +the [[tips]] to find out how to get more out of ikiwiki. + +---- + +_Notes_: -10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]. +- If you are searching for the file where the users are stored, it's in `your_repository/.ikiwiki/userdb`. The one which is in YOUR REPOSITORY, it cannot be found into your `~/.ikiwiki`. +- If you want to enable a plugin you **WILL HAVE** to add it to the `add_plugins` array in the `*.setup` file (or to use the `--plugin` switch while calling `ikiwiki`). Uncommenting the plugin options/configuration fields in the setup is not **ALWAYS** sufficient. You have been warned.