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:
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
NO_MSGFMT=yes 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 /opt/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 like to install test software in /opt. No particular reason. You could install to defaults.
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/Library/Perl/5.10.0 LIB=/Library/Perl/5.10.0
perl Makefile.PL LIB=/Library/Perl/5.10.0
make
make install
sudo install -d /opt/ikiwiki
sudo install -m 0644 wikilist /opt/ikiwiki
sudo install -m 0644 auto.setup /opt/ikiwiki
sudo install -m 0644 auto-blog.setup /opt/ikiwiki
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
make GITWEB_PROJECTROOT="/opt/ikiwiki/" GITWEB_CSS="/gitweb/gitweb.css" GITWEB_LOGO="/gitweb/git-logo.png" GITWEB_FAVICON="/gitweb/git-favicon.png" bindir=/opt/local/bin
cp gitweb.cgi /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/gitweb/
sudo chmod 2755 gitweb.cgi
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.
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 "blah blah cgi-bin/omega/omega" does not exist or some such. 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 setup file and replaced the bad path, updated and badda-boom badda-bing.
Then I fell asleep.
