1 This tutorial will walk you through setting up a wiki with ikiwiki.
3 1. [[Download]] and [[install]] ikiwiki.
5 2. Decide where your wiki's files will go.
7 As a wiki compiler, ikiwiki builds a wiki from files in a source directory,
8 and outputs the files to a destination directory. If you keep your wiki in
9 a version control system, the source directory will contain a working copy
10 checked out from the version control system.
12 For the purposes of this tutorial, we'll set shell variables
13 for these locations, and use those variables in the commands that follow.
16 DESTDIR=~/public_html/wiki/
18 Note that ikiwiki owns the working copy directory; do not perform your own
19 edits in ikiwiki's working copy.
21 3. Create the beginnings of your wiki.
23 This will create a simple main page for the wiki.
29 In the editor, you could start by entering a simple page like
30 [[toggle id=page text="this one"]].
32 [[toggleable id=page text="""
33 Welcome to your new wiki.
34 All wikis are supposed to have a [[SandBox]],
37 This wiki is powered by [ikiwiki](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net).
40 See [[HelpOnFormatting]] for details about the markup language.
42 Note that several standard wiki pages will be added to your wiki, from
43 files in `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/`, so your wiki will automatically
44 get a [[SandBox]], and some other useful pages.
46 4. Build your wiki for the first time.
48 ikiwiki --verbose $SRCDIR $DESTDIR --url=http://example.org/~you/wiki/
50 Replace the url with the real url to your wiki. You should now
51 be able to visit the url and see your wiki.
53 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 as desired, editing or adding pages and rebuilding
56 To quickly get started on a common task like blogging with ikiwiki, you
57 can copy in files from the [[examples]]. The examples are located in
58 `doc/examples/` in the ikiwiki source package.
60 You can play around with other ikiwiki parameters such as `--wikiname`
61 and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line (see
64 6. By now you should be getting tired of typing in all the command line
65 options each time you change something in your wiki's setup. Time to
66 introduce setup files.
68 A sample setup file is [[ikiwiki.setup]]. Download it (or copy it from
69 `doc/ikiwiki.setup` in the ikiwiki sources), and edit it.
71 Most of the options, like `wikiname` in the setup file are the same as
72 ikiwiki's command line options (documented in [[usage]]. `srcdir` and
73 `destdir` are the two directories you specify when running ikiwiki by
74 hand. Make sure that these are pointing to the right directories, and
75 read through and configure the rest of the file to your liking.
77 When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
78 will set everything up.
80 7. Turn on additional features.
82 Now you have a basic wiki with a configuration file. Time to experiment
83 with ikiwiki's many features.
85 Let's first enable a key wiki feature and set up [[CGI]] to allow
86 editing the wiki from the web. Just edit ikiwiki.setup, uncomment the
87 block for the cgi wrapper, make sure the filename for the cgi wrapper
88 is ok, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
90 There are lots of other configuration options in ikiwiki.setup that you
91 can uncomment, configure, and enable by re-running
92 `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`. Be sure to browse through all the
95 8. Put your wiki in revision control.
97 At this point you might want to check your wiki in to a revision control
98 system you can get history of past changes and revert edits. Depending
99 on the revision control system you choose, the way this is done varies.
101 There's little that's ikiwiki specific about these instructions; this is
102 just how you put a directory under revision control using the various
103 systems that ikiwiki supports. Note that the .ikiwiki subdirectory is
104 where ikiwiki keeps its state, and should be preserved, but not checked
105 into revision control.
107 [[toggle id=subversion text="Subversion"]]
108 [[toggleable id=subversion text="""
109 REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
110 svnadmin create $REPOSITORY
111 svn mkdir file://$REPOSITORY/trunk -m "create trunk"
113 svn co file://$REPOSITORY/trunk .
115 svn commit -m "initial import"
118 [[toggle id=git text="Git"]]
119 [[toggleable id=git text="""
120 REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
126 git commit -m "initial import" -a
127 mv $SRCDIR/.ikiwiki .
129 git clone -l -s $REPOSITORY $SRCDIR
132 [[toggle id=tla text="TLA"]]
133 [[toggleable id=tla text="""
134 REPOSITORY=~/wikirepo
135 tla make-archive me@localhost--wiki $REPOSITORY
136 tla my-id "<me@localhost>"
138 tla archive-setup me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
139 tla init-tree me@localhost--wiki/wiki--0
140 # Edit {arch}/=tagging-method and change the precious
141 # line to add the .ikiwiki directory to the regexp.
146 [[toggle id=mercurial text="Mercurial"]]
147 [[toggleable id=mercurial text="""
152 hg commit -m "initial import"
155 9. Configure ikiwiki to use revision control.
157 Once your wiki is checked in to the revision control system,
158 you should configure ikiwiki to use revision control. Edit your
159 ikiwiki.setup, and uncomment the lines for the revision control system
160 you chose to use. Be sure to set `svnrepo` to $REPOSITORY, if using
161 subversion. Uncomment the block for the wrapper for your revision
162 control system, and configure the wrapper path in that block
165 Once it's all set up, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` once more.
166 Now you should be able to edit files in $SRCDIR, and use your revision
167 control system to commit them, and the wiki will automatically update.
168 And in the web interface, RecentChanges should work, and files changed
169 by web users will also be committed using revision control.
171 10. Enjoy your new wiki! Add yourself to [[IkiWikiUsers]].