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[NearlyFreeSpeech.net](http://NearlyFreeSpeech.net) is a shared hosting
provider with very cheap pay as you go pricing. Here's how to install ikiwiki
there if you don't have a dedicated server.
Note that you can also follow these instructions, get your wiki set up on
NearlyFreeSpeech, and then use the [[plugins/Amazon_S3]] plugin to inject
the static web pages into Amazon S3. Then NearlyFreeSpeech will handle the
CGI, and S3 will handle the web serving. This might be a more cost effective,
scalable, or robust solution than using NearlyFreeSpeech alone.
## Register for an account and set up a site
After you [get an account](https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/start.php),
create a site using their web interface.
Mine is named `ikiwiki-test` and I used their DNS instead of getting my
own, resulting in <http://ikiwiki-test.nfshost.com/>
They gave me 2 cents free funding for signing up, which is enough to pay
for 10 megabytes of bandwidth, or about a thousand typical page views, at
their current rates. Plenty to decide if this is right for you. If it is,
$5 might be a good starting amount of money to put in your account.
## ssh in and configure the environment
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
Now set up .profile to run programs from ~/bin.
cd $HOME
echo "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" > .profile
. .profile
## Download an unpack ikiwiki
Use `wget` to [[download]] the ikiwiki tarball. Then unpack it:
tar zxvf ikiwiki*.tar.gz
## Install perl modules
Use CPAN to install the perl modules it uses into your home directory:
PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->force(install => "Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
This will take a while. As long as the first command succeeds, ikiwiki will be
usable. The second command adds extra modules that some plugins use, so it's
ok if installation of some of them fail.
## Build and install ikiwiki
cd ikiwiki
export MAKE=gmake
perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=$HOME PREFIX=
$MAKE
$MAKE install
## Set up a wiki in the usual way
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 .
cp -r ~/ikiwiki/doc/examples/blog/* .
nano ikiwiki.setup
# Set destdir to /home/htdocs
# Set srcdir to /home/private/wiki
# Set url to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/ , set cgiurl likewise
# Uncomment the `rcs => "git"` line, and the cgi and git
# post-update wrapper blocks.
# Set the cgi wrapper path to /home/htdocs/ikiwiki.cgi
# Set the git wrapper path to /home/private/wiki.git/hooks/post-update
# Configure the rest to your liking and save the file.
ikiwiki-makerepo git . ../wiki.git
ikiwiki -setup ikiwiki.setup
## Clean up
Finally, you can save a _lot_ of disk space by cleaning up the ikiwiki
tarball and .cpan directory and a few other peices of cruft. Since you'll be
charged one cent per month per megabyte, this is a quick way to save several
dollars.
rm -rf ~/ikiwiki*.tar.gz ~/.cpan ~/ikiwiki ~/man ~/lib/perl5/5.8.8
That should cut things down to less than 4 megabytes. If you want to save
even more space, delete unused perl modules from ~/lib/perl5
## Enjoy!
Have fun and do good things. --[[Joey]]
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