From 2149dd4ac0e7dd29fdcc11a063f9835f7111ebed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: fmarier Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:48:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- .../Setting_up_a_development_environment.mdwn | 26 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Setting_up_a_development_environment.mdwn diff --git a/doc/forum/Setting_up_a_development_environment.mdwn b/doc/forum/Setting_up_a_development_environment.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..94f022e22 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Setting_up_a_development_environment.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Hi, + +I'm trying to setup a development environment to hack on the comments plugin and I'm having problems getting my Ikiwiki CGI to use my git checkout as the libdir and templatedir instead of the system one. + +My .setup contains: + + srcdir => '/home/francois/wiki/testblog', + destdir => '/var/www/testblog', + url => 'http://localhost/testblog', + cgiurl => 'http://localhost/testblog/ikiwiki.cgi', + cgi_wrapper => '/var/www/testblog/ikiwiki.cgi', + templatedir => '/home/francois/devel/remote/ikiwiki/templates', + underlaydir => '/home/francois/devel/remote/ikiwiki/doc', + libdir => '/home/francois/devel/remote/ikiwiki', + ENV => {}, + git_wrapper => '/home/francois/wiki/testblog.git/hooks/post-update', + +Now, if I modify ~/devel/remote/ikiwiki/templates/comment.tmpl, my changes don't appear when I add a comment to a blog post. On the other hand, if I hack /usr/share/ikiwiki/templates/comment.tmpl and cause the page to be rebuilt by adding a new comment then that does have an effect. + +The same is true for ~/devel/remote/ikiwiki/Ikiwiki/Plugin/comments.pm (doesn't appear to be used) and /usr/share/perl5/Ikiwiki/Plugin/comments.pm (my hacks affect pages as they are recompiled). + +I must be missing something obvious, but the [[ikiwiki development environment tips]] didn't help me... + +Cheers, + +[[Francois|fmarier]] -- 2.26.2