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diff --git a/doc/forum/Setting_up_a_development_environment.mdwn b/doc/forum/Setting_up_a_development_environment.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0b4e555c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Setting_up_a_development_environment.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Hi, + +I'm trying to setup a development environment to hack on the comments plugin and I'm having problems getting my Ikiwiki CGI to use my git checkout as the libdir and templatedir instead of the system one. + +My <tt>.setup</tt> contains: + + srcdir => '/home/francois/wiki/testblog', + destdir => '/var/www/testblog', + url => 'http://localhost/testblog', + cgiurl => 'http://localhost/testblog/ikiwiki.cgi', + cgi_wrapper => '/var/www/testblog/ikiwiki.cgi', + templatedir => '/home/francois/devel/remote/ikiwiki/templates', + underlaydir => '/home/francois/devel/remote/ikiwiki/doc', + libdir => '/home/francois/devel/remote/ikiwiki', + ENV => {}, + git_wrapper => '/home/francois/wiki/testblog.git/hooks/post-update', + +Now, if I modify <tt>~/devel/remote/ikiwiki/templates/comment.tmpl</tt>, my changes don't appear when I add a comment to a blog post. On the other hand, if I hack <tt>/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates/comment.tmpl</tt> and cause the page to be rebuilt by adding a new comment then that does have an effect. + +The same is true for <tt>~/devel/remote/ikiwiki/Ikiwiki/Plugin/comments.pm</tt> (doesn't appear to be used) and <tt>/usr/share/perl5/Ikiwiki/Plugin/comments.pm</tt> (my hacks affect pages as they are recompiled). + +I must be missing something obvious, but the [[ikiwiki development environment tips]] didn't help me... + +Cheers, + +[[Francois|fmarier]] + +> I updated the [[ikiwiki development environment tips]] page with my +> approach to running ikiwiki from the git checkout (with changes). For +> the templates, also make sure that you do not have custom templates in +> your src dir as they will be used instead of those from the template +> dir if found. --GB diff --git a/doc/forum/TMPL__95__VAR_IS__95__ADMIN/comment_7_bdc5c96022fdb8826b57d68a41ef6ca0._comment b/doc/forum/TMPL__95__VAR_IS__95__ADMIN/comment_7_bdc5c96022fdb8826b57d68a41ef6ca0._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..79fd8516f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/TMPL__95__VAR_IS__95__ADMIN/comment_7_bdc5c96022fdb8826b57d68a41ef6ca0._comment @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="justint" + ip="24.182.207.250" + subject="Continuing discussion..." + date="2011-02-24T02:59:04Z" + content=""" +Ok, I'll go over to the [[bugs/logout_in_ikiwiki]] page. Thank you for your help. +"""]] diff --git a/doc/forum/ikiwiki_development_environment_tips.mdwn b/doc/forum/ikiwiki_development_environment_tips.mdwn index 91ccc6d6e..f9c584159 100644 --- a/doc/forum/ikiwiki_development_environment_tips.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/ikiwiki_development_environment_tips.mdwn @@ -42,3 +42,27 @@ Does anyone have a comfortable setup or tips they would like to share? -- [[Jon] > needed, since it is preconfigured to use the templates and underlays > from ikiwiki's source repository. > --[[Joey]] + +> I work with Ikiwiki from the git checkout directory the following way. +> +> * instead of running ikiwiki, I wrote the following `mykiwiki` shell script, +> that also allows me to use my custom lib-ifited multimarkdown: + + #!/bin/sh + + MMDSRC="$HOME/src/multimarkdown/lib" + IKIWIKISRC="$HOME/src/ikiwiki" + PLUGINS="$HOME/src/ikiplugins" + + /usr/bin/perl -I"$MMDSRC" -I"$IKIWIKISRC/blib/lib" -I"$PLUGINS" "$IKIWIKISRC/ikiwiki.out" -libdir "$IKIWIKISRC" "$@" + +> * I also have an installed ikiwiki from Debian unstable, from which I only use the base wiki, so my `.setup` has the following configs: + + # additional directory to search for template files + templatedir => '/home/oblomov/src/ikiwiki/templates', + # base wiki source location + underlaydir => '/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki', + # extra library and plugin directory + libdir => '/home/oblomov/src/ikiwiki', + +> Hope that helps --GB |