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diff --git a/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn b/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn
index 435743bf9..2a78b66a3 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
@@ -49,9 +52,9 @@ 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")'
+ PERL5LIB=$HOME/ikiwiki:$HOME/ikiwiki/cpan:$HOME/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
- PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->force(install => "Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
+ PERL5LIB=$HOME/ikiwiki:$HOME/ikiwiki/cpan:$HOME/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->force(install => "Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
This will take a while. As long as the first command succeeds, ikiwiki will be
usable. The second command adds extra modules that some plugins use, so it's
@@ -76,19 +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