Create a Wiki (MoinMoin - Python - FDKeditor)

[Lindsay]

I was looking for something to do my documentation, and have it easily available and updateable anywhere. Even though I got this working, and with the graphic GUI editor FCKeditor; but, it did not fulfill my wishes. Maybe one of these days wikis' will use HTML, or at least have a consistent markup language.

Installation

Installation was done before it was available from Kubuntu repositories. I used the package(s) found at http://www.apt-get.org/

Temporarily add

/etc/apt/sources.list...
# WIKI: python-moinmoin
deb http://debian.jones.dk sid misc

Install - which automatically installs dependencies.

sudo apt-install python2.4-moinmoin

Configuration Background

Wiki configuration consists of 3 levels, any setting in a lower level overrides that setting in a higher level, until the wiki has built it's final configuration.
1. file:///usr/share/moin/config/wikiconfig.py
...which can have settings replaced by
2. file:///etc/moin/farmconfig.py
<== use this if you can, not wikiconfig.py
3. file:///etc/moin/mywiki.py
4. which results in the final configuration.

Warning:
In Python leading spaces mean something! I don't know what, but setting lines don't work unless there are 4 spaces preceeding the command.

Create a wiki - named MyWiki

mkdir /var/www/mywiki
cp -r /usr/share/moin/data /usr/share/moin/underlay /usr/share/moin/server/moin.cgi /var/www/mywiki
sudo chown -R www-data: /var/www/mywiki

Configure Apache1, Apache2

* Add the following lines to /etc/apache/httpd.conf

Alias /wiki/ "/usr/share/moin/htdocs/"
ScriptAlias /MyWiki "/var/www/mywiki/moin.cgi"

Reload apache

Configure MoinMoin:

* Edit /etc/moin/farmconfig.py and add in your wiki

# wikis = [
("mywiki", r"^.*MyWiki.*$"),
# ]

* Also turn on the general administration, security settings so you can do things like "attachment:".

Setup this new wiki

cp /etc/moin/moinmaster.py /etc/moin/mywiki.py

* Edit /etc/moin/mywiki.py
* More Info@ http://moinmaster.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnConfiguration

class Config(FarmConfig):
show_timings = 1
sitename = u'MyWiki' # [Unicode]
interwikiname = 'MoinMaster'
bang_meta = 1

Configure Part 2

After installation, you are always forced into the "HelpOnLanguages" page.

To get out of this you have to create and set your own global Frontpage in farmconfig.py (not mywiki.py).
* There is only one global Frontpage - you cannot have a separate one for each wiki (? ).

1. I went to Frontpage (did a search)
2. Edited Frontpage to include myFrontpage
3. Went to myFrontpage and did some editing...
* Copy whatever you want from the existing Frontpage.
4. Once myFrontpage exists...

Inform the wiki of your Frontpage by editing /etc/moin/farmconfig.py

page_front_page = u"myFrontpage"

Enjoy your new wiki at http://localhost/MyWiki/