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authorintrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>2009-03-08 09:50:27 +0100
committerintrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>2009-03-08 09:50:27 +0100
commitae474d8e14631ff519ed7d54bb64eaa0538f56d9 (patch)
tree09637db5faf2632b67b581cf04463fe4493584d4 /doc/setup
parent0314ed459ba1c49fad9170a54cc05f1c9e9c96bf (diff)
parent08e4472fc469c630ebef93e16a66a5a69d9cb33a (diff)
Merge commit 'upstream/master' into prv/po
Conflicts: IkiWiki/Plugin/editpage.pm debian/control debian/copyright doc/todo/need_global_renamepage_hook.mdwn Signed-off-by: intrigeri <intrigeri@boum.org>
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-rw-r--r--doc/setup/discussion.mdwn16
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diff --git a/doc/setup/byhand.mdwn b/doc/setup/byhand.mdwn
index 9a2e1f3e9..0184d3d2a 100644
--- a/doc/setup/byhand.mdwn
+++ b/doc/setup/byhand.mdwn
@@ -171,11 +171,12 @@ about using the git repositories.
Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system, you should
configure ikiwiki to use revision control. Edit your ikiwiki.setup, set
-`rcs` to the the revision control system you chose to use. Be sure to set
-`svnrepo` to the directory for your repository, if using subversion.
-Uncomment the configuration for the wrapper for your revision control
-system, and configure the wrapper path appropriately (for Git, it should be
-the path to `hooks/post-update` inside the bare git repository).
+`rcs` to the the revision control system you chose to use. Be careful,
+you may need to use the 'fullname'. For example, 'hg' doesn't work, you
+should use mercurial. Be sure to set `svnrepo` to the directory for your
+repository, if using subversion. Uncomment the configuration for the wrapper
+for your revision control system, and configure the wrapper path appropriately
+(for Git, it should be the path to `hooks/post-update` inside the bare git repository).
Once it's all set up, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` once more.
Now you should be able to edit files in $SRCDIR, and use your revision
diff --git a/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn b/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn
index 3ec123eb5..89114d7a2 100644
--- a/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn
+++ b/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn
@@ -149,3 +149,19 @@ But I don't get an edit link on my pages? What am I doing wrong?
> Assuming you don't have the editpage plugin disabled, all you should need
> to so is re-run `ikiwiki -setup` with the above config and it should
> rebuild your wiki and add the edit links to pages. --[[Joey]]
+
+----
+
+I setup ikiwiki on a fedora 10 machine and I am using apache as my http server. Faced a few difficulties while setting it up as the default setup program left some suid files and group writeable directories on the system. It took some time to get it working and documented what I did at http://flyingtux.blogspot.com/2009/03/installing-ikiwiki.html. Thought it might be useful to someone here. (The version installed is 2.72)
+
+> ikiwiki makes wrappers suid by default, because this ensures that when
+> the ikiwiki.cgi is run by your web server, it runs as the user who owns
+> your wiki, and can thus write to it. ikiwiki is designed to run securely
+> suid. If your webserver uses some
+> mechanism to run the ikiwiki.cgi as the user who owns it, without the
+> suid bit being set, you *could* modify `cgi_wrappermode` in your setup
+> file to drop the suid bit.
+>
+> ikiwiki respects the umask, so if your umask is one that causes things to
+> be group writable, they will by. If you want to override that, there is
+> also a `umask ` setting in your setup file. --[[Joey]]