X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/fa1cb20542a8c249706e0b219c70682e22af915a..1dad6b64aff41419c8c3b5ec582660bc1668a6d0:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 904cedeb6..4b8b14483 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -9,8 +9,59 @@ Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the # Installation/Setup questions -(I've moved HarleyPig's problem to its [[own_page|bugs/xgettext_issue]] ---[[Joey]]) +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. + +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. + +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. + +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". + +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). + +(I am posting this now, but will do some research and post some more.) + +Is there any webpage with upgrade steps? + +--JeremyReed + ---- # Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site? @@ -36,58 +87,28 @@ 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]] ---- -# asciidoc or txt2tags ? - -Any plugins or support for using asciidoc or txt2tags as the wiki language and/or exporting to asciidoc or txt2tags? - -> No, but it should be quite easy to write such a plugin. The otl plugin -> is a good example of writing a formatting plugin that uses an external -> conversion program, like asciidoc or txt2tags. --[[Joey]] - ----- - # LaTeX support? -Any plugins or support for exporting to LaTeX? -(If not could use asciidoc or txt2tags mentioned above to generated LaTeX.) - -> It's already [[been_requested|todo/latex]], although perhaps not -> working the way you're thinking of. Noone is currently working on it. -> --[[Joey]] - ->> I did some tests with using Markdown and a customized HTML::Latex and html2latex ->> and it appears it will work for me now. (I hope to use ikiwiki for many ->> to collaborate on a printed book that will be generated at least once per day in PDF format.) ->> ->> --JeremyReed - ->>> Have a look at [pandoc](http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/). It can make PDFs via pdflatex. --[[roktas]] +Moved to [[todo/latex]] --[[Joey]] ---- # Using with CVS? -Any examples of using ikiwiki with cvs? - -> No, although the existing svn backend could fairly esily be modified into -> a CVS backend, by someone who doesn't mind working with CVS. --[[Joey]] +Moved to a [[todo_item|todo/CVS_backend]]. --[[JoshTriplett]] ---- # Show differences before saving page? -It would be nice to be able to have a button to show "Differences" (or "Show Diff") when -editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled? - -> It's doable, it could even be done by a [[todo/plugin]], I think. -> --[[Joey]] +Moved to the existing [[todo_item|todo/preview_changes]]. --[[JoshTriplett]] ---- @@ -96,15 +117,7 @@ editing a page. Is that an option that can be enabled? Any setting for limiting how many kilobytes can be submitted via the "edit" form? -- [[JeremyReed]] -> Not currently. Worried about abuse? --[[Joey]] - ->> I didn't want it abused accidently or with malice. I was thinking that Perl's CGI.pm would handle this, but I don't see that. ->> I read that textarea max bytes may be 500 lines or 28000 characters or 30000 characters or 64kB. It seems like it ->> varies and I didn't test myself, because I guess it may depend on different clients and different HTTP servers. ->> This could be checked using javascript on the client side (before submitting) and by checking size on server side (before saving). --[[JeremyReed]] - ->>> The absolute limit varies by browser. If there are web servers that ->>> also limit it, I don't know of them. --[[Joey]] +>>> See [[todo/fileupload]] for an idea on limiting page size. --[[Joey]] ---- @@ -117,7 +130,7 @@ actions. However, it may not be something everyone appreciates. Any thoughts? --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) > Maybe, although it would need to take the critisism at -> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/accesskey.html into account. +> into account. >> Thank you for that link. Given that the edit link is the first thing you tab to >> in the current layout, I guess it isn't all that necessary. I have had a @@ -131,7 +144,7 @@ actions. However, it may not be something everyone appreciates. Any thoughts? It would be nice to be able to edit the stylesheet by means of the cgi. Or is this possible? I wasn't able to achieve it. Ok, that's my last 2 cents for a while. --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) -> I don't support editing it, but if/when ikiwiki gets file upload support, +> I don't support editing it, but if/when ikiwiki gets [[todo/fileupload]] support, > it'll be possible to upload a style sheet. (If .css is in the allowed > extensions list.. no idea how safe that would be, a style sheet is > probably a great place to put XSS attacks and evil javascript that would @@ -147,16 +160,6 @@ Ok, that's my last 2 cents for a while. --[Mazirian](http://mazirian.com) ---- -# RecentChanges should show path to wiki sub-pages? - -The RecentChanges only shows the final file name for the recently changes file, -for example "discussion". It would be more useful to see "index/discussion" -or the path to the sub-page. I think this is handled by the htmllink() routine. - -> Went ahead and did this, IMHO the display is ok as-is. --[[Joey]] - ----- - # Should not create an existing page This might be a bug, but will discuss it here first. @@ -172,3 +175,74 @@ Clicking on an old "?" or going to a create link but new Markdown content exists >>> discussion, or users/discussion, but not index/discussion, since this >>> page already exists. If all the pages existed, it would do the redirect >>> thing. --[[Joey]] + +---- + +# User database tools? + +Any tool to view user database? + +Any tool to edit the user database? + +> No, but it's fairly easy to write such tools in perl. For example, to +> list all users in the user database: + + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $_ foreach keys %$userinfo' + http://joey.kitenet.net/ + foo + +> To list each user's email address: + + joey@kodama:~/src/joeywiki/.ikiwiki>perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); print $userinfo->{$_}->{email} foreach keys %$userinfo' + + joey@kitenet.net + +> Editing is simply a matter of changing values and calling Storable::store(). +> 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.