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@@ -7,6 +7,22 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
 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.
 
+## Quick start
+
+If you'd like to set up a wiki now, and learn more later, and you have
+ikiwiki 2.60 or better installed, just run this command and answer a couple
+of questions.
+
+	% ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
+	What will the wiki be named? mywiki
+	What revision control system to use? git
+	What wiki user (or openid) will be wiki admin? joey
+
+Wait for it to tell you an url for your new wiki.. Done!
+
+(If the CGI doesn't seem to let you edit pages, you might need to
+[[configure_apache|tips/apache_cgi]] or [[configure_lighttpd|tips/lighttpd_cgi]].)
+
 ## Decide where your wiki's files will go.
 
 As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
@@ -74,11 +90,16 @@ and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see
 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. Note that this
-file should *not* be put in your wiki's directory with the rest of the
-files. A good place to put it is in a ~/.ikiwiki/ subdirectory.
+
+To generate a setup file, use `ikiwiki --dumpsetup`. You can pass
+all the options have you been including at the command line, and they
+will be stored in the setup file.
+
+	ikiwiki $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/ --dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup
+
+Note that this file should *not* be put in your wiki's directory with
+the rest of the files. A good place to put it is in a ~/.ikiwiki/
+subdirectory.
    
 Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
 ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
@@ -91,12 +112,12 @@ will set everything up.
 
 ## Turn on additional features.
 
-Now you have a basic wiki with a configuration file. Time to experiment
+Now you have a basic wiki with a setup 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
+settings for the `cgi_wrapper`, make sure the filename for the cgi wrapper
 is ok, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
 
 There are lots of other configuration options in ikiwiki.setup that you
@@ -113,7 +134,7 @@ on the revision control system you choose, the way this is done varies.
 Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is where ikiwiki keeps its state, and
 should be preserved, but not checked into revision control.
 
-The new [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] command automates setting up a wiki in
+The [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] command automates setting up a wiki in
 revision control.
 
 [[!toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
@@ -160,39 +181,20 @@ about using the git repositories.
 
 [[!toggle id=monotone text="Monotone"]]
 [[!toggleable id=monotone text="""
-	# These instructions are standard instructions to import a directory into monotone
-	# and set it up so that you don't need any passwords to use it
-	REPOSITORY=~/.ikiwiki/mtn.db
-	BRANCH=com.company.wikiname
-	# remember the password you use in the next step and
-	# substitute it for 'wikiKeyPass' in the get_passphrase() hook below
-	# note the you should never generate two monotone keys with the same name
-	mtn genkey web@machine.company.com
-	mtn db init --db=$REPOSITORY
-	mv $SRCDIR $SRCDIR-old
-	cd $SRCDIR-old
-	echo ".ikiwiki" > $SRCDIR-old/.mtn-ignore
-	mtn --db=$REPOSITORY --branch=$BRANCH import . -m "initial import"
-	cd ..
-	mtn --db=$REPOSITORY --branch=$BRANCH checkout $SRCDIR
-	mv $SRCDIR-old/.ikiwiki $SRCDIR
-	cat << EOF > $SRCDIR/_MTN/monotonerc
-	function get_passphrase (branchname)
-	    return "wikiKeyPass"
-	end
-	EOF
-	rm -r $SRCDIR-old
+	# This assumes that you have already used "mtn genkey you@hostname".
+	REPOSITORY=~/wiki.monotone
+	ikiwiki-makerepo monotone $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY
 """]]
 
 ## 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 $REPOSITORY, if using
-subversion. Uncomment the block for the wrapper for your revision
-control system, and configure the wrapper path in that block
-appropriately (for Git, it should be `$REPOSITORY/hooks/post-update`).
+Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system, you should
+configure ikiwiki to use revision control. Edit your ikiwiki.setup, set
+`rcs` to the the revision control system you chose to use. Be sure to set
+`svnrepo` to the directory for your repository, if using subversion.
+Uncomment the configuration for the wrapper for your revision control
+system, and configure the wrapper path appropriately (for Git, it should be
+the path to `hooks/post-update` inside the bare git repository).
 
 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