X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/dbd966f28c6e83c898f802c576cebcb203d86b8c..40078348f90615d9a61e42267d35f068db844a11:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 554f485b7..0825ff4d5 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -9,7 +9,97 @@ Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the # Installation/Setup questions -Add them here.. +Ikiwiki creates a .ikiwiki directory in my wikiwc working directory. Should I +"svn add .ikiwiki" or add it to svn:ignore? + +> `.ikiwiki` is used by ikiwiki to store internal state. You can add it to +> svn:ignore. --[[Joey]] +> > Thanks a lot. + +Is there an easy way to log via e-mail to some webmaster address, instead +of via syslog? + +> 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]] + +> > 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. + +# Upgrade steps + +I upgrades from 1.37 to 2.6.1. I ran "ikiwiki --setup" using my existing ikiwiki.setup configuration. +I had many errors like: + + /home/bsdwiki/www/wiki/wikilink/index.html independently created, not overwriting with version from wikilink + BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 5) line 129. + +and: + + failed renaming /home/bsdwiki/www/wiki/smileys.ikiwiki-new to /home/bsdwiki/www/wiki/smileys: Is a directory + BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 5) line 129. + +Probably about six errors like this. I worked around this by removing the files and directories it complained about. +Finally it finished. + +> As of version 2.0, ikiwiki enables usedirs by default. See +> [[tips/switching_to_usedirs]] for details. --[[Joey]] + +My next problem was that ikiwiki start letting me edit without any password authentication. It used to prompt +me for a password but now just goes right into the "editing" mode. +The release notes for 2.0 say password auth is still on by default. + +> It sounds like you have the anonok plugin enabled? + +The third problem is that when editing my textbox is empty -- no content. + +This is using my custom rcs.pm which has been used thousands of times. + +> Have you rebuilt the cgi wrapper since you upgraded ikiwiki? AFAIK I +> fixed a bug that could result in the edit box always being empty back in +> version 2.3. The only other way it could happen is if ikiwiki does not +> have saved state about the page that it's editing (in .ikiwiki/index). + +Now I regenerated my ikiwiki.cgi again (no change to my configuration, +and I just get an empty HTML page when attempting editing or "create". + +> If the page is completly empty then ikiwiki is crashing before it can +> output anything, though this seems unlikely. Check the webserver logs. + +Now I see it created directories for my data. I fixed that by setting +usedirs (I see that is in the release notes for 2.0) and rerunning ikiwiki --setup +but I still have empty pages for editing (no textbox no html at all). + +> Is IkiWiki crashing? If so, it would probably leave error text in the apache logs. --[[TaylorKillian]] + +(I am posting this now, but will do some research and post some more.) + +Is there any webpage with upgrade steps? + +> Users are expected to read [[news]], which points out any incompatible +> changes or cases where manual action is needed. + +--JeremyReed + +My followup: I used a new ikiwiki.setup based on the latest version. But no changes for me. + +Also I forgot to mention that do=recentchanges works good for me. It uses my +rcs_recentchanges in my rcs perl module. + +The do=prefs does nothing though -- just a blank webpage. + +> You need to figure out why ikiwiki is crashing. The webserver logs should +> tell you. + +I also set verbose => 1 and running ikiwiki --setup was verbose, but no changes in running CGI. +I was hoping for some output. + +I am guessing that my rcs perl module stopped working on the upgrade. I didn't notice any release notes +on changes to revision control modules. Has something changed? I will also look. + +> No, the rcs interface has not needed to change in a long time. Also, +> nothing is done with the rcs for do=prefs. + +--JeremyReed ---- # Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site? @@ -35,7 +125,7 @@ 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]] @@ -149,3 +239,48 @@ Any tool to edit the user database? > 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]] + +---- + +# Spaces in WikiLinks? + +Hello Joey, + +I've just switched from ikiwiki 2.0 to ikiwiki 2.2 and I'm really surprised +that I can't use the spaces in WikiLinks. Could you please tell me why the spaces +aren't allowed in WikiLinks now? + +My best regards, + +--[[Paweł|ptecza]] + +> See [[bugs/Spaces_in_link_text_for_ikiwiki_links]] + +---- + +# Build in OpenSolaris? + +Moved to [[bugs/build_in_opensolaris]] --[[Joey]] + +---- + +# Various ways to use Subversion with ikiwiki + +I'm playing around with various ways that I can use subversion with ikiwiki. + +* Is it possible to have ikiwiki point to a subversion repository which is on a different server? The basic checkin/checkout functionality seems to work but there doesn't seem to be any way to make the post-commit hook work for a non-local server? + +> This is difficult to do since ikiwiki's post-commit wrapper expects to +> run on a machine that contains both the svn repository and the .ikiwiki +> state directory. However, with recent versions of ikiwiki, you can get +> away without running the post-commit wrapper on commit, and all you lose +> is the ability to send commit notification emails. + +* Is it possible / sensible to have ikiwiki share a subversion repository with other data (either completely unrelated files or another ikiwiki instance)? This works in part but again the post-commit hook seems problematic. + +--[[AdamShand]] + +> Sure, see ikiwiki's subversion repository for example of non-wiki files +> in the same repo. If you have two wikis in one repository, you will need +> to write a post-commit script that calls the post-commit wrappers for each +> wiki.