page views at their current rates.)
* `ssh` into their server using the ssh hostname and username displayed on
the site's information page. For me this was
- `ssh joeyh_ikiwiki-test@ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net`
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+ ssh joeyh_ikiwiki-test@ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net
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* Set up .profile to use your home directory.
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echo "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" > $HOME/.profile
. $HOME/.profile
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* You'll be in the htdocs directory by default, where public web pages are
put, so before installing ikiwiki, `cd $HOME`
* Use `wget` to [[download]] the ikiwiki tarball.
* Unpack ikiwiki.
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tar zxvf ikiwiki*.tar.gz
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* Use CPAN to install the perl modules it uses into your home directory:
- PERL5LIB=ikiwiki:ikiwiki/cpan:. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
- PERL5LIB=ikiwiki:ikiwiki/cpan:. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->force(install => "Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
(This will take a while. As long as the first command succeeds, ikiwiki will be
usable. The second command adds extra modules that some plugins use, and
installation of some of them might fail.)
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+ PERL5LIB=ikiwiki:ikiwiki/cpan:. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
+ PERL5LIB=ikiwiki:ikiwiki/cpan:. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->force(install => "Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
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* Now build and install ikiwiki into your home directory.
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cd ikiwiki
export MAKE=gmake
perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=$HOME PREFIX=
$MAKE
$MAKE install
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* With ikiwiki installed, you can follow the regular [[setup]] tutorial for
settng up your wiki. Make sure to set `destdir` to `/home/htdocs/` so that
the wiki is published on the web site. I recommend using git for revision
control; you can then clone your wiki's git repository as an offsite backup.
Here is an example of how I set up a wiki:
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mkdir ~/wiki
cd ~/wiki
cp ~/ikiwiki/doc/ikiwiki.setup .
# Configure the rest to your liking and save the file.
ikiwiki-makerepo git . ../wiki.git
ikiwiki -setup ikiwiki.setup
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* Finally, you can save a _lot_ of disk space by cleaning up the ikiwiki
tarball and .cpan directory.
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rm -rf ~/ikiwiki*.tar.gz ~/.cpan
Have fun and do good things. --[[Joey]]