X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/fc7bd5114d4f91b1985d187c1bdc5a4c8250f383..376944cb026945ab597db01eb1e3aea4fa320007:/doc/index/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn index 0539a6f75..4cf38e9cb 100644 --- a/doc/index/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/index/discussion.mdwn @@ -27,6 +27,42 @@ of via syslog? ---- +# Installation of selected docs (html) + +The latest release has around 560 files (over 2MB) in html. + +Any suggestions or ideas on limiting what html is installed? + +For example, I don't see value in every ikiwiki install out there to also install personal "users" ikiwiki pages. + +For now I copy ikiwiki.setup. And then use pax with -L switch to copy the targets of the symlinks of the basewiki. + +I was thinking of making a list of desired documents from the html directory to install. + +--JeremyReed + +> You don't need any of them, unless you want to read ikiwiki's docs locally. +> +> I don't understand why you're installing the basewiki files manually; +> ikiwiki has a Makefile that will do this for you. --[[Joey]] + +>> The Makefile's install doesn't do what I want so I use different installer for it. +>> It assumes wrong location for man pages for me. (And it should consider using INSTALLVENDORMAN1DIR and +>> MAN1EXT but I don't know about section 8 since I don't know of perl value for that.) +>> I don't want w3m cgi installed; it is optional for my package. +>> I will just patch for that instead of using my own installer. +>> Note: I am working on the pkgsrc package build specification for this. This is for creating +>> packages for NetBSD, DragonFly and other systems that use pkgsrc package system. +>> --JeremyReed + +# Installation as non-root user + +I'd like to install ikiwiki as a non-root user. I can plow through getting all the +perl dependencies installed because that's well documented in the perl world, +but I don't know how to tell ikiwiki to install somewhere other than / --BrianWilson + +---- + # Upgrade steps I upgrades from 1.40 to 2.6.1. I ran "ikiwiki --setup" using my existing ikiwiki.setup configuration. @@ -84,6 +120,11 @@ but I still have empty pages for editing (no textbox no html at all). >> Not using apache. Nothing useful in logs other thn the HTTP return codes are "0" and bytes is "-" >> on the empty ikiwiki.cgi output (should say " 200 " followed by bytes). +>>> You need to either figure out what your web server does with stderr +>>> from cgi programs, or run ikiwiki.cgi at the command line with an +>>> appropriate environment so it thinks it's being called from a web +>>> server, so you can see how it's failing. --[[Joey]] + (I am posting this now, but will do some research and post some more.) Is there any webpage with upgrade steps? @@ -91,10 +132,12 @@ 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. ->> I read it but read the userdirs option wrong :(. +>> I read it but read the usedirs option wrong :(. >> Also it appears to be missing the news from between 1.40 to 2.0 unless they dont' exist. >> If they do exist maybe they have release notes I need? +>>> All the old ones are in the NEWS file. --[[Joey]] + --JeremyReed My followup: I used a new ikiwiki.setup based on the latest version. But no changes for me. @@ -143,6 +186,31 @@ Now ikiwiki is working for me again (but using 1.40). I shouldn't have tested on --JeremyReed +I am back. On a different system, I installed ikiwiki 2.6.1. Same problem -- blank CGI webpage. + +So I manually ran with: + + REQUEST_METHOD=GET QUERY_STRING='do=create&page=jcr' kiwiki.cgi + +And clearly saw the error: + + [IkiWiki::main] Fatal: Bad template engine CGI::FormBuilder::Template::div: Can't locate CGI/FormBuilder/Template/div.pm + +So I found my version was too old and 3.05 is the first to provide "Div" support. I upgraded my p5-CGI-FormBuilder to 3.0501. +And ikiwiki CGI started working for me. + +The Ikiwiki docs about this requirement got removed in Revision 4367. There should be a page that lists the requirements. +(I guess I could have used the debian/control file.) + +> There is a page, [[install]] documents that 3.05 is needed. + +>> Sorry, I missed that. With hundreds of wikipages it is hard to read all of them. +>> I am updating the download page now to link to it. + +I am now using ikiwiki 2.6.1 on my testing system. + +--JeremyReed + ---- # Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site? @@ -172,6 +240,15 @@ easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl). >> Thanks for an excellent Xmas present, I will appreciate the additional >> users this will help switch to ikiwiki! --[[Joey]] + +>> Sounds great indeed. Learning from [here](http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/AboutTheTWikiToIkiwikiConversion/) that HTML::WikiConverter needed for your conversion was not up-to-date on Debian I have now done an unofficial package, including your proposed Markdown patches, apt-get'able at 
deb http://debian.jones.dk/ sid wikitools
+>> -- [[JonasSmedegaard]] + + +>>I see the "We will post the scripts ...." was committed about a year ago. A current site search for "Moin" does not turn them up. Any chance of an appearance in the near (end of year) future? +>> +>> -- [[MichaelRasmussen]] + ---- # LaTeX support? @@ -282,6 +359,16 @@ Any tool to edit the user database? > to do it rarely, and the data I've wanted has been different each time. > --[[Joey]] +>> Thanks for these examples -- I have been using them. I don't know the +>> Storable yet. Can someone share an example of removing a user? (I now +>> setup account\_creation\_password and I have some spammer with different +>> login names that I have banned that I might as well remove from the +>> userdb.) + +>>> Let's see, you could do something like this: +>>> perl -le 'use Storable; my $userinfo=Storable::retrieve("userdb"); delete $$userinfo{"joey"}; Storable::lock_store($userinfo, "userdb")' +>>> I suppose I should stop being lame and create a command line tool wrapping up these operations.. --[[Joey]] + ---- # Spaces in WikiLinks? @@ -318,6 +405,9 @@ I'm playing around with various ways that I can use subversion with ikiwiki. > away without running the post-commit wrapper on commit, and all you lose > is the ability to send commit notification emails. +> (And now that [[recentchanges]] includes rss, you can just subscribe to +> that, no need to worry about commit notification emails anymore.) + * 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]] @@ -326,3 +416,25 @@ I'm playing around with various ways that I can use subversion with ikiwiki. > 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. + +---- + +# Regex for Valid Characters in Filenames + +I'm sure that this is documented somewhere but I've ransacked the wiki and I can't find it. :-( What are the allowed characters in an ikiwiki page name? I'm writing a simple script to make updating my blog easier and need to filter invalid characters (so far I've found that # and , aren't allowed ;-)). Thanks for any pointers. -- [[AdamShand]] + +> The default `wiki_file_regexp` matches filenames containing only +> `[-[:alnum:]_.:/+]` +> +> The IkiWiki::titlepage() function will convert freeform text to a valid +> page name. See [[todo/should_use_a_standard_encoding_for_utf_chars_in_filenames]] +> for an example. --[[Joey]] + +>> Perfect, thanks! +>> +>> In the end I decided that I didn't need any special characters in filenames and replaced everything but alphanumeric characters with underscores. In addition to replacing bad characters I also collapse multiple underscores into a single one, and strip off trailing and leading underscores to make tidy filenames. If it's useful to anybody else here's a sed example: +>> +>> # echo "++ Bad: ~@#$%^&*()_=}{[];,? Iki: +_-:./ Num: 65.5 ++" | sed -e 's/[^A-Za-z0-9_]/_/g' -e 's/__*/_/g' -e 's/^_//g' -e 's/_$//g' +>> Bad_Iki_Num_65_5 +>> +>>--[[AdamShand]]