web commit by joey

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / setup.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/setup.mdwn b/doc/setup.mdwn
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--- a/doc/setup.mdwn
+++ b/doc/setup.mdwn
@@ -18,7 +18,9 @@ optional support for commits from the web.
 
                svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
 
 
                svn co file:///svn/wikirepo/trunk ~/wikiwc
 

-4. Create some files and add them into subversion.
+4. 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
 
                echo "Welcome to my empty wiki." > ~/wikiwc/index.mdwn
                echo "Feel free to edit this page" > ~/wikiwc/sandbox.mdwn


@@ -28,7 +30,7 @@ optional support for commits from the web.
 5. Build your wiki for the first time.
 
                ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ \
 5. Build your wiki for the first time.
 
                ikiwiki --verbose ~/wikiwc/ \

-                  /usr/lib/ikiwiki/templates ~/public_html/wiki/ \
+                  /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates ~/public_html/wiki/ \

                   --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
 
    Replace the url with the right url to your wiki. You should now
                   --url=http://host/~you/wiki/
 
    Replace the url with the right url to your wiki. You should now


@@ -36,7 +38,8 @@ optional support for commits from the web.
 
 6. 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
 
 6. 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 too. Get confortable with its command line.
+   `--wikiname` and `--rebuild` too. Get comfortable with its command line
+   (see [[usage]]).

 
 7. 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
 
 7. 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


@@ -54,24 +57,25 @@ optional support for commits from the web.
    directories, and read through and configure the rest of the file to your
    liking.
 
    directories, and read through and configure the rest of the file to your
    liking.
 

-   Note that the default file will enable a [[post-commit]] hook to
-   update the wiki, but has cgi support turned off.
+   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
-   generate the subversion [[post-commit]] hook and update your wiki.
+   When you're satisfied, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and it
+   will set everything up and update your wiki.

 
 8. Set up [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web.
 
 
 8. Set up [[CGI]] to allow editing the wiki from the web.
 

-   Just edit ikiwiki.setup, change cgiwrapper to 1, and optioanlly anonok
-   to 1, run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup`, and you're done!
+   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!

 
 9. 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 
 
 9. 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, "[[]]" is replaced with the name of the file to view. So
+   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:
 
    edit ikiwiki.setup and set `historyurl` to something like this:
 

-       `http://svn.host/trunk/[[]]?root=wiki`
+       `http://svn.host/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki`

    
    Then run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` again.
 
    
    Then run `ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup` again.