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+I wrote a script that will download all the latest revisions of a mediawiki site. In short, it does a good part of the stuff required for the migration: it downloads the goods (ie. the latest version of every page, automatically) and commits the resulting structure. There's still a good few pieces missing for an actual complete conversion to ikiwiki, but it's a pretty good start. It only talks with mediawiki through HTTP, so no special access is necessary. The downside of that is that it will not attempt to download every revision for performance reasons. The code is here: http://anarcat.ath.cx/software/mediawikigitdump.git/ See header of the file for more details and todos. -- [[users/Anarcat]] 2010-10-15
+
+----
+
The u32 page is excellent, but I wonder if documenting the procedure here
would be worthwhile. Who knows, the remote site might disappear. But also
there are some variations on the approach that might be useful:
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+These are some notes on installing ikiwiki on Mac OS X Snow Leopard. I have a three year old machine with a lot of stuff on it so it took quite a while, YMMV.
+
+The best part of installing ikiwiki was learning how to use git. I never used source control before but its pretty slick.
+
+
+## installing git:
+
+cd /opt/ikiwiki/install
+
+curl http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-(latest version).tar.gz -O
+
+tar xzvf git-(latest version).tar.gz
+
+cd git-(latest version)
+
+./configure --prefix=/usr/local
+
+make prefix=/usr/local all
+
+sudo make install
+
+
+git config --global user.name "firstname lastname"
+
+git config --global user.email "email here"
+
+git config --global color.ui "auto"
+
+
+curl http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.7.3.1.tar.gz | sudo tar -xzC /usr/local/share/man/
+
+
+## installing ikiwiki:
+I had terrible trouble installing ikiwiki. It turned out I had accidentally installed Perl through ports. Uninstalling that made everything install nicely.
+I got an error on msgfmt. Turns out this is a program in gettext. I installed that and it fixed the error.
+
+cd ..
+
+git clone git://git.ikiwiki.info/
+
+cd git.ikiwiki.info/
+
+perl Makefile.PL LIB=/Library/Perl/5.10.0
+
+make
+
+sudo make install
+
+when you make ikiwiki it gives you a .git folder with the ikiwiki files. Stay out of this folder. You want to learn how to create a clone and make all your changes in the clone. When you push the changes ikiwiki will update. I moved a file in this folder by accident because I named my working file the same and I couldn't get into the setup page. I had apparently messed up my ikiwiki git repository. I did a pull into my clone, deleted the repository and webserver/ cgi folders and ran a new setup. Then I did a git clone and dragged all my old files into the new clone. Did the git dance and did git push. Then the angels sang.
+
+
+## using git from inside a git folder:
+
+start with git clone, then learn to do the git dance like this.
+
+git pull
+
+make your changes to your clone
+
+git commit -a -m "message here"
+
+git push
+
+
+When you can't get into the setup page or you get strange behavior after a setup update the Utilities > Console app is your friend.
+
+## installing gitweb
+
+cd ../git-1.7.3.1/gitweb
+
+make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/opt/ikiwiki/" GITWEB_CSS="/gitweb.css" GITWEB_LOGO="/git-logo.png" GITWEB_FAVICON="/git-favicon.png"
+
+cp gitweb.cgi /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/
+
+cp /usr/local/share/gitweb/static/git-favicon.png /Library/WebServer/Documents/
+
+cp /usr/local/share/gitweb/static/git-logo.png /Library/WebServer/Documents/
+
+cp /usr/local/share/gitweb/static/gitweb.css /Library/WebServer/Documents/
+
+cp /usr/local/share/gitweb/static/gitweb.js /Library/WebServer/Documents/
+
+
+sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/gitweb.cgi
+
+sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/Documents/git-favicon.png
+
+sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/Documents/git-logo.png
+
+sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/Documents/gitweb.css
+
+sudo chmod 2755 /Library/WebServer/Documents/gitweb.js
+
+
+## installing xapian:
+
+download xapian and omega
+
+I needed pcre: sudo ports install pcre
+
+./configure
+
+make
+
+sudo make install
+
+
+## installing omega:
+
+I had a build error do to libiconv undefined symbols. sudo port deactivate libiconv took care of it. After install I had trouble with ikiwiki so I did a sudo port install libiconv and ikiwiki came back.
+
+./configure
+
+make
+
+sudo make install
+
+
+## installing Search::Xapian from CPAN
+
+for some reason this wouldn't install using CPAN console so I went to CPAN online and downloaded the source.
+
+perl Makefile.PL
+
+make
+
+make test
+
+sudo make install
+
+it installed without issue so I'm baffled why it didn't install from command line.
+
+
+ ## setup file
+ _!/usr/bin/perl
+ _ Ikiwiki setup automator.
+
+ _ This setup file causes ikiwiki to create a wiki, check it into revision
+ _ control, generate a setup file for the new wiki, and set everything up.
+
+ _ Just run: ikiwiki -setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
+
+ _By default, it asks a few questions, and confines itself to the user's home
+ _directory. You can edit it to change what it asks questions about, or to
+ _modify the values to use site-specific settings.
+ require IkiWiki::Setup::Automator;
+
+ our $wikiname="your wiki";
+ our $wikiname_short="yourwiki";
+ our $rcs="git";
+ our $admin="your name";
+ use Net::Domain q{hostfqdn};
+ our $domain="your.domain";
+
+ IkiWiki::Setup::Automator->import(
+ wikiname => $wikiname,
+ adminuser => [$admin],
+ rcs => $rcs,
+ srcdir => "/opt/ikiwiki/$wikiname_short",
+ destdir => "/Library/WebServer/Documents/$wikiname_short",
+ repository => "/opt/ikiwiki/$wikiname_short.".($rcs eq "monotone" ? "mtn" : $rcs),
+ dumpsetup => "/opt/ikiwiki/$wikiname_short.setup",
+ url => "http://$domain/$wikiname_short",
+ cgiurl => "http://$domain/cgi-bin/$wikiname_short/ikiwiki.cgi",
+ cgi_wrapper => "/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/$wikiname_short/ikiwiki.cgi",
+ adminemail => "your\@email.com",
+ add_plugins => [qw{goodstuff websetup}],
+ disable_plugins => [qw{}],
+ libdir => "/opt/ikiwiki/.ikiwiki",
+ rss => 1,
+ atom => 1,
+ syslog => 1,
+ )
+
+
+## turning on search plugin:
+
+I turned on the plugin from the setup page in ikiwiki but it gave an error when I went to search. Error "Error: /usr/lib/cgi-bin/omega/omega failed: No such file or directory".
+I did a "find / -name "omega" -print" and found the omega program in "/usr/local/lib/xapian-omega/bin/omega".
+
+Then I went into the 2wiki.setup file and replaced the bad path, updated and badda-boom badda-bing.
+
+
+
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+If you want do a bunch of manual labor, this is good, but most people probably want to get ikiwiki via a package system. My Mac laptop's ikiwiki is installed from pkgsrc. --[[schmonz]]