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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ All other documentation is in the ikiwiki documentation wiki, which is also available online at <http://ikiwiki.info/> -A few special variables you can set while using the Makefile: +A few special variables you can set while using the Makefile.PL: PROFILE=1 turns on profiling for the build of the doc wiki. (Uses Devel::NYTProf) diff --git a/doc/bugs/wrapper_can__39__t_find_the_perl_modules.mdwn b/doc/bugs/wrapper_can__39__t_find_the_perl_modules.mdwn index 61964539d..9804d86c5 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/wrapper_can__39__t_find_the_perl_modules.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/wrapper_can__39__t_find_the_perl_modules.mdwn @@ -3,3 +3,14 @@ If i intsall perl modules in my custom directory, cgi wrapper can't find them. I Workaround: add newenviron variable PERL5LIB My additional question - what wrapper do? I'am russian hosting provider. I am interesting with ikiwiki. + +> The wrapper allows ikiwiki to run as the user who owns the wiki, which +> is generally not the same as the user that runs the web server. +> (It also handles some other things, like some locking.) +> +> As a suid program, the wrapper cannot safely let environment variables +> pass through. +> +> If you want to install ikiwiki's perl modules in a nonstandard location, +> you can set `INSTALL_BASE` when running `Makefile.PL`. ikiwiki will then +> be built to look in that location. --[[Joey]] [[!tag done]] |