1 Seems like there should be a page for you to post your thoughts about
2 ikiwiki, both pro and con, anything that didn't work, ideas, or whatever.
5 Note that for more formal bug reports or todo items, you can also edit the
6 [[bugs]] and [[todo]] pages.
8 # Installation/Setup questions
10 I have just installed ikiwiki and it works - at least I have the example index.mdwn page
11 compiled and visible. However I have a few issues/problems:-
13 * A couple of the 'optional' Perl modules aren't optional, you can't install ikiwiki without them,
14 these are HTML::Template and HTML::Scrubber (at least I think it was these two, it's a bit messy
15 to go back and find out).
17 * I don't seem to have got an ikiwiki man page created.
19 * Running "ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup" doesn't do anything. I have edited ikiwiki.setup to
20 my local settings. There are no errors but neither does anything get compiled. An ikiwiki
21 command to explicitly do the compile works fine. Am I misunderstanding something here?
23 * I wish there was a mailing list, much easier for this sort of stuff than this, apart from
24 anything else I get to use a decent editor.
27 # Excellent - how do I translate a TWiki site?
29 I just discovered ikiwiki quite by chance, I was looking for a console/terminal
30 menu system and found pdmenu. So pdmenu brought me to here and I've found ikiwiki!
31 It looks as if it's just what I've been wanting for a long time. I wanted something
32 to create mostly text web pages which, as far as possible, have source which is human
33 readable or at least in a standard format. ikiwiki does this twice over by using
34 markdown for the source and producing static HTML from it.
36 I'm currently using TWiki and have a fair number of pages in that format, does
37 anyone have any bright ideas for translating? I can knock up awk scripts fairly
38 easily, perl is possible (but I'm not strong in perl).
44 I just figured I'd edit something on the page with my OpenID, since you've implemented it! --*[Kyle](http://kitenet.net/~kyle/)*=
46 > Kyle, If you like openid, I can switch your personal wiki over to use your openid. --[[Joey]]
52 How about adding ACL? So that you can control which users are allowed
53 to read, write certain pages. The moinmoin wiki has that, and it is
54 something, that I think is very valuable.
56 > ikiwiki currently has only the most rudimentary access controls: pages
57 > can be locked, or unlocked and only the admin can edit locked pages. That
58 > could certianly be expanded on, although it's not an area that I have an
59 > overwhelming desire to work on myself right now. Patches appreciated and
60 > I'll be happy to point you in the right directions.. --[[Joey]]
62 >> I'm really curious how you'd suggest implementing ACLs on reading a page.
63 >> It seems to me the only way you could do it is .htaccess DenyAll or something,
64 >> and then route all page views through ikiwiki.cgi. Am I missing something?
67 >>> Or you could just use apache or whatever and set up the access controls
68 >>> there. Of course, that wouldn't integrate very well with the wiki,
69 >>> unless perhaps you decided to use http basic authentication and the
70 >>> httpauth plugin for ikiwiki that integrates with that.. [[--Joey]]
72 >>>> Which would rule out openid, or other fun forms of auth. And routing all access
73 >>>> through the CGI sort of defeats the purpose of ikiwiki. --[[Ethan]]
77 Some questions about the RecentChanges function. -- Ethan
79 > (Moved to [[todo/recentchanges]] --[[Joey]])
83 Also, I'd like to request another template parameter which is just
84 $config{url}. That way you won't have to hard-code the URL of the wiki into
85 the template. -- Ethan
87 > That's already available in the BASEURL parameter. --[[Joey]]
91 # Canonical feed location?
93 Any way to use `inline` but point the feed links to a different feed on the
94 same site? I have news in news/*, a news archive in news.mdwn, and the
95 first few news items on index.mdwn, but I don't really want two separate
96 feeds, one with all news and one with the latest few articles; I'd rather
97 point the RSS feed links of both to the same feed. (Which one, the one
98 with all news or the one with the latest news only, I don't know yet.)
100 > Not currently. It could be implemented, or you could just turn off the
101 > rss feed for the index page, and manually put in a wikilink to the news
102 > page and rss feed. --[[Joey]]
104 >> That wouldn't use the same style for the RSS and Atom links, and it
105 >> wouldn't embed the feed link into `<head>` so that browsers can automatically