Ikiwiki
About
Ikiwiki is a very lightweight wiki engine, that generates static html from markdown files through a git repository.
It is a very cool project with terrible documentation, so let's compile what we know and learn in this page!
Installation on Debian
NOTE:
where $WIKI put the name of your wiki
where $USER put the name of the local user
sudo apt install ikiwiki
make sure you also have librpc-xml-perl and python-docutils
Setup [1]
You run the following command:
ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
If you get this error:
/etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup: Only one Term::ReadLine::Gnu instance is allowed. at /usr/share/perl5/IkiWiki/Setup/Automator.pm line 17.
then add PERL_RL=Perl before ikiwiki [2]
you will then get a series of prompts:
What will the wiki be named? $WIKI What revision control system to use? git What wiki user (or openid) will be admin? $USER Choose a password:
You can later change these settings in /home/$USER/$WIKI.setup
Variables
Two important variables in the ikiwiki universe are $srcdir, the source directory, and $destdir, the destination directory.
You make changes in $srcdir only! Ikiwiki does the rest.
by default, your $srcdir is /home/$USER/$WIKI/
and your $destdir is /home/$USER/public_html/$WIKI
Making your ikiwiki public with nginx
heh
Ikiwiki on a subdomain
heh
Hosting on a phone server
Claudio pls add here <3
Editing the wiki
customizing CSS
add local.css in the git folder /home/$USER/$WIKI/
that way you can fully customize your wiki!