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diff --git a/doc/setup.mdwn b/doc/setup.mdwn index 1b8e4b12a..32e430ec7 100644 --- a/doc/setup.mdwn +++ b/doc/setup.mdwn @@ -2,205 +2,136 @@ This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki. [[!toc ]] -## [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki. +## [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki If you're using Debian or Ubuntu, ikiwiki is an `apt-get install ikiwiki` away. If you're not, see the [[download]] and [[install]] pages. -## Quick start +## Create your wiki -If you'd like to set up a wiki now, and learn more later, and you have -ikiwiki 2.60 or better installed, just run this command and answer a couple -of questions. +All it takes to create a fully functional wiki using ikiwiki is running +one command. % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup - What will the wiki be named? mywiki + +Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead. + + % ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup + +Either way, it will ask you a couple of questions. + + What will the wiki be named? foo What revision control system to use? git - What wiki user (or openid) will be wiki admin? joey + What wiki user (or openid) will be admin? joey + Choose a password: -Wait for it to tell you an url for your new wiki.. Done! +Then, wait for it to tell you an url for your new site.. -(If the CGI doesn't seem to let you edit pages, you might need to -[[configure_apache|tips/apache_cgi]] or [[configure_lighttpd|tips/lighttpd_cgi]].) + Successfully set up foo: + url: http://example.com/~joey/foo + srcdir: ~/foo + destdir: ~/public_html/foo + repository: ~/foo.git + To modify settings, edit ~/foo.setup and then run: + ikiwiki -setup ~/foo.setup -## Decide where your wiki's files will go. +Done! -As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory, -and outputs the files to a destination directory. If you keep your wiki in -a version control system, the source directory will contain a working copy -checked out from the version control system. +## Using the web interface + +Now you can go to the url it told you, and edit pages in your new wiki +using the web interface. + +You can log in using the wiki user and password (or the openid) +that you told it to set up earlier. That user is an admin, so you can +go to the Preferences page and click on "Wiki Setup" to further +configure the wiki. + +(If the web interface doesn't seem to allow editing or login, you may +need to configure [[apache|tips/apache_cgi]] or +[[lighttpd|tips/lighttpd_cgi]].) -For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables -for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow. +## Checkout and edit wiki source - SRCDIR=~/wikiwc - DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/ +Part of the fun of using ikiwiki is not being limited to using the +web for editing pages, and instead using your favorite text editor and +[[Revision_Control_System|rcs]]. -Note that ikiwiki owns the working copy directory; do not perform your own -edits in ikiwiki's working copy. +To do this, you need to check out a copy of the source to your wiki. +You should avoid making changes directly to the `srcdir`, as that +checkout is reserved for use by ikiwiki itself. -## Create the beginnings of your wiki. +Depending on which [[Revision_Control_System|rcs]] you chose to use, +you can run one of these commands to check out your own copy of your wiki's +source. (Remember to replace "foo" with the real directory name.) -This will create a simple main page for the wiki. + git clone foo.git foo.src + svn checkout file://`pwd`/foo.svn/trunk foo.src + bzr clone foo foo.src + hg clone foo foo.src + # TODO monotone, tla - mkdir $SRCDIR - cd $SRCDIR - $EDITOR index.mdwn +Now to edit pages by hand, go into the directory you checked out (ie, +"foo.src"), and fire up your text editor to edit `index.mdwn` or whatever +other page you want to edit. If you chose to set up a blog, there is even a +sample first post in `posts/first_post.mdwn` that you can edit. -In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like -[[!toggle id=page text="this one"]]. -[[!toggleable id=page text=""" - Welcome to your new wiki. +Once you've edited a page, use your revision control system to commit +the changes. For distributed revision control systems, don't forget to push +your commit. - All wikis are supposed to have a \[[SandBox]], - so this one does too. +Once the commit reaches the repository, ikiwiki will notice it, and +automatically update the wiki with your changes. - ---- +## Customizing the wiki + +There are lots of things you can configure to customize your wiki. +These range from changing the wiki's name, to enabling [[plugins]], +to banning users and locking pages. + +If you log in as the admin user you configured earlier, and go to +your Preferences page, you can click on "Wiki Setup" to customize many +wiki settings and plugins. + +Some settings cannot be configured on the web, for security reasons or +because misconfiguring them could break the wiki. To change these settings, +you can manually edit the setup file, which is named something like +"foo.setup". The file lists all available configuration settings +and gives a brief description of each. + +After making changes to this file, you need to tell ikiwiki to use it: + + % ikiwiki -setup foo.setup + +## Customizing file locations + +As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory, +and outputs the files to a destination directory. The source directory is +a working copy checked out from the version control system repository. - This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.info). -"""]] - -See [[ikiwiki/formatting]] for details about the markup language. +When you used `auto.setup`, ikiwiki put the source directory, destination +directory, and repository in your home directory, and told you the location +of each. Those locations were chosen to work without customization, but you +might want to move them to different directories. There are three steps to +this process. -Note that several [[standard_wiki_pages|basewiki]] will be added to your -wiki, from files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/`, so your wiki will -automatically get a [[SandBox]], and some other useful pages. +1. Move the destination directory and repository around. -## Build your wiki for the first time. + % mv public_html/foo /srv/web/foo.com + % mv foo.git /srv/git/foo.git - ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/ +2. Create a new source directory checkout. If you moved the repository + to a new location, checkouts pointing at the old location won't work, + and the easiest way to deal with this is to delete them and re-checkout + from the new repository location. -Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now -be able to visit the url and see your wiki. + % rm -rf foo + % git clone /src/git/foo.git -## Add content to your wiki. - -Continue editing or adding pages and rebuilding the wiki. - -To quickly get started on a common task like blogging with ikiwiki, you -can copy in files from the [[examples]]. The examples are located in -`doc/examples/` in the ikiwiki source package. - -You can experiment with other ikiwiki parameters such as `--wikiname` -and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see -[[usage]]). - -## Add a setup file. - -By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line -options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. Time to -introduce setup files. - -To generate a setup file, use `ikiwiki --dumpsetup`. You can pass -all the options have you been including at the command line, and they -will be stored in the setup file. - - ikiwiki $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/ --dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup - -Note that this file should *not* be put in your wiki's directory with -the rest of the files. A good place to put it is in a ~/.ikiwiki/ -subdirectory. - -Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as -ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and -`destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by -hand. Make sure that these are pointing to the right directories, and -read through and configure the rest of the file to your liking. - -When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it -will set everything up. - -## Turn on additional features. - -Now you have a basic wiki with a setup file. Time to experiment -with ikiwiki's many features. - -Let's first enable a key wiki feature and set up [[CGI]] to allow -editing the wiki from the web. Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the -settings for the `cgi_wrapper`, make sure the filename for the cgi wrapper -is ok, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done! - -There are lots of other configuration options in ikiwiki.setup that you -can uncomment, configure, and enable by re-running -`ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`. Be sure to browse through all the -[[plugins]].. - -## Put your wiki in revision control. - -At this point you might want to check your wiki in to a revision control -system so you can keep track of changes and revert edits. Depending -on the revision control system you choose, the way this is done varies. - -Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is where ikiwiki keeps its state, and -should be preserved, but not checked into revision control. - -The [[ikiwiki-makerepo]] command automates setting up a wiki in -revision control. - -[[!toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]] -[[!toggleable id=subversion text=""" - REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo - ikiwiki-makerepo svn $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY -"""]] - -[[!toggle id=git text="Git"]] -[[!toggleable id=git text=""" - REPOSITORY=~/wiki.git - ikiwiki-makerepo git $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY - -Please see [[rcs/git]] for detailed documentation about how -ikiwiki uses git repositories, and some important caveats -about using the git repositories. -"""]] - -[[!toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]] -[[!toggleable id=mercurial text=""" - REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR - ikiwiki-makerepo mercurial $SRCDIR -"""]] - -[[!toggle id=bazaar text="Bazaar"]] -[[!toggleable id=bazaar text=""" - REPOSITORY=$SRCDIR - ikiwiki-makerepo bzr $SRCDIR -"""]] - -[[!toggle id=tla text="TLA"]] -[[!toggleable id=tla text=""" - REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo - tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY - tla my-id "<me@localhost>" - cd $SRCDIR - tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0 - tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0 - # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious - # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp. - tla add * - tla import -"""]] - -[[!toggle id=monotone text="Monotone"]] -[[!toggleable id=monotone text=""" - # This assumes that you have already used "mtn genkey you@hostname". - REPOSITORY=~/wiki.monotone - ikiwiki-makerepo monotone $SRCDIR $REPOSITORY -"""]] - -## Configure ikiwiki to use revision control. - -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). - -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 -control system to commit them, and the wiki will automatically update. -And in the web interface, RecentChanges should work, and files changed -by web users will also be committed using revision control. +3. Edit the setup file. Modify the settings for `srcdir`, `destdir`, + `url`, `cgiurl`, `cgi_wrapper`, `git_wrapper`, etc to reflect where + you moved things. Remember to run `ikiwiki -setup` after editing the + setup file. ## Enjoy your new wiki! |