X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/ddef0d3170b1543e6ed580c7ce00849e3ed1550f..b5a05dbc33a1a24a6a20701d2756a2d4f4a77995:/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn diff --git a/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn b/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn index 6715f0c29..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 @@ -77,17 +80,18 @@ Here is an example of how I set up a wiki: mkdir ~/wiki cd ~/wiki cp -r ~/ikiwiki/doc/examples/blog/* . - ikiwiki -dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup + 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 + # 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