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diff --git a/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn b/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn index 84022f86f..4d1177179 100644 --- a/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn +++ b/doc/tips/nearlyfreespeech.mdwn @@ -11,32 +11,43 @@ there if you don't have a dedicated server. page views at their current rates.) * `ssh` into their server using the ssh hostname and username displayed on the site's information page. For me this was - `ssh joeyh_ikiwiki-test@ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net` + + ssh joeyh_ikiwiki-test@ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net + * Set up .profile to use your home directory. + echo "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" > $HOME/.profile . $HOME/.profile + * You'll be in the htdocs directory by default, where public web pages are put, so before installing ikiwiki, `cd $HOME` * Use `wget` to [[download]] the ikiwiki tarball. * Unpack ikiwiki. + tar zxvf ikiwiki*.tar.gz + * Use CPAN to install the perl modules it uses into your home directory: - PERL5LIB=ikiwiki:ikiwiki/cpan:. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")' - PERL5LIB=ikiwiki:ikiwiki/cpan:. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->force(install => "Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")' (This will take a while. As long as the first command succeeds, ikiwiki will be usable. The second command adds extra modules that some plugins use, and installation of some of them might fail.) + + PERL5LIB=ikiwiki:ikiwiki/cpan:. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")' + PERL5LIB=ikiwiki:ikiwiki/cpan:. PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->force(install => "Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")' + * Now build and install ikiwiki into your home directory. + cd ikiwiki export MAKE=gmake perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=$HOME PREFIX= $MAKE $MAKE install + * With ikiwiki installed, you can follow the regular [[setup]] tutorial for settng up your wiki. Make sure to set `destdir` to `/home/htdocs/` so that the wiki is published on the web site. I recommend using git for revision control; you can then clone your wiki's git repository as an offsite backup. Here is an example of how I set up a wiki: + mkdir ~/wiki cd ~/wiki cp ~/ikiwiki/doc/ikiwiki.setup . @@ -52,8 +63,10 @@ there if you don't have a dedicated server. # Configure the rest to your liking and save the file. ikiwiki-makerepo git . ../wiki.git ikiwiki -setup ikiwiki.setup + * Finally, you can save a _lot_ of disk space by cleaning up the ikiwiki tarball and .cpan directory. + rm -rf ~/ikiwiki*.tar.gz ~/.cpan Have fun and do good things. --[[Joey]] |