So you want to set up your own wiki using ikiwiki? This turorial will walk
you through setting up a wiki that is stored in [[Subversion]] and that has
optional support for commits from the web.
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[[Install]] ikiwiki.
apt-get install ikiwiki # soon
Ikiwiki requires [[MarkDown]] be installed, and also uses the following
perl modules: CGI::Session CGI::FormBuilder HTML::Template
Mail::SendMail Time::Duration
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Create the subversion repository for your wiki.
svnadmin create /svn/wikirepo
svn mkdir file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk -m create
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Check out the repository to make the working copy that ikiwiki will use.
svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
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Create some files and add them into subversion. Or you might copy the
files from /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki and check those in to get a
head start on creating your wiki.
echo "Welcome to my empty wiki." > ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn
echo "Feel free to edit this page" > ~/wikiwc/sandbox.mdwn
svn add ~/wikiwc/*.mdwn
svn commit ~/wikiwc -m add
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Build your wiki for the first time.
ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ ~/public_html/wiki/ \
--url=http://host/~you/wiki/
Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
be able to visit the url and see your page that you created earlier.
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Repeat steps 4 and 5 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
the wiki. You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as
--wikiname and --rebuild too. Get comfortable with its command line
(see [[usage]]).
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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. And it's
also getting old to have to manualy rebuild the wiki each time you
change a file. Time to introduce setup files.
A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from
doc/ikiwiki.setup in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it.
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. svnrepo is the path to your subversion
repository. Make sure that all of these are pointing to the right
directories, and read through and configure the rest of the file to your
liking.
Note that the default file has a block to configure a svn wrapper. This
sets up a [[post-commit]] hook to update the wiki.
When you're satisfied, run ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup, and it
will set everything up and update your wiki.
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Set up [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web.
Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the block for the cgi wrapper, make
sure the filename for the cgi wrapper is ok, run
ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup, and you're done!
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Add [[PageHistory]] links to the top of pages. This requires you to have
setup [[ViewCVS]] or something similar to access your [[Subversion]]
repository. The historyurl setting makes ikiwiki add the links, and
in that url, "[[file]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So
edit ikiwiki.setup and set historyurl to something like this:
http://svn.host/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
Then run ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup again.
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Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]]
