These install notes make the following assumptions: Debian OS, nginx, fcgi-wrap, stagit. Also these are notes, not all the steps are provided, such as restarting nginx, enabling https, etc.

Base installation

sudo apt install ikiwiki
sudo mkdir /var/www/damaged.bleu255.com-src /var/www/damaged.bleu255.com
sudo chown $USER:$USER /var/www/damaged.bleu255.com*
echo "hello" > /var/www/damaged.bleu255.com-src/index.mdwn
mkdir ~/ikiwiki-cfg
ikiwiki --verbose /var/www/damaged.bleu255.com-src /var/www/damaged.bleu255.com --url=https://damaged.bleu255.com --dumpsetup ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup
ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup

Configuration changes

IMPORTANT, any changes to the wiki configuration must be followed by this to reflect changes:

ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup

Enable CGI

# ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup
cgiurl: 'https://damaged.bleu255.com/ikiwiki.cgi'
cgi_wrapper: '/var/www/damaged.bleu255.com/ikiwiki.cgi'

# /etc/nginx/sites-available/damages.bleu255.com
server {
  listen 443;

  server_name damaged.bleu255.com;

  root /var/www/damaged.bleu255.com;
  index index.html index.htm;
  access_log /var/log/nginx/damaged.bleu255.com-access.log;
  error_log /var/log/nginx/damaged.bleu255.com-error.log;

  location / {
    try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
  }

  # Max size of file upload
  client_max_body_size 10m;

  location /ikiwiki.cgi {
    gzip off;
    fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/fcgiwrap.socket;
    fastcgi_index ikiwiki.cgi;
    fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/damaged.bleu255.com/ikiwiki.cgi;
    fastcgi_param DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/damaged.bleu255.com/;
    include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
  }
}

Enable git

ikiwiki-makerepo git /var/www/damaged.bleu255.com-src /var/www/git.bleu255.com/repos/damaged.bleu255.com.git

# ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup
rcs: 'git'

ikiwiki --changesetup ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup

# ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup
git_wrapper: /var/www/git.bleu255.com/repos/damaged.bleu255.com.git/hooks/post-update
git_wrapper_background_command: git push

ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup
cd /var/www/damaged.bleu255.com-src
git config pull.rebase false

stagit hooks and stagit diff URLs

cd /var/www/git.bleu255.com/repos/damaged.bleu255.com.git/hooks
ln -s ../../../update_single.sh post-receive

# ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup
diffurl: https://git.bleu255.com/damaged.bleu255.com/commit/\[\[sha1_commit\]\].html

Limited web access

There are 2 ways to deal with user:pass for web access (if we rule out external auth like openid):

• outsource it to httpd-auth, implies that someone has to maintain the list of users and their passwd manually

• or add a password prompt during account creation, something we'd share with only trusted people, or people showing interest, etc. We choose this approach

  # ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup account_creation_password: pa55w0rd ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup

Support for sending emails

Useful to reset passwords, etc.

sudo apt install libmail-sendmail-perl

# ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup
adminemail: yolo29383@hotmail.com

ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup

Stronger password hashes

sudo apt install libauthen-passphrase-perl

# ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup
password_cost: 16

Disable OpenID and emailauth

ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup --disable-plugin openid
ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup --disable-plugin emailauth

# ~/ikiwiki-cfg/damaged.setup
disable_plugins: [emailauth, openid]

Default git commit message when none provided

Ikiwiki and a recent enough version of git allow for empty git messages (the "Optional description of this change" while editing on the web), that's nice but it makes stagit history impossible to browse because it uses such messages as links. To make ikiwiki provide a default commit message when non given, you can do this:

diff --git a/git.pm.old b/git.pm
index 2bc2500..2198207 100644
--- a/git.pm.old
+++ b/git.pm
@@ -680,21 +680,8 @@ sub rcs_commit_helper (@) {
        $params{message} = IkiWiki::possibly_foolish_untaint($params{message});
        my @opts;
        if ($params{message} !~ /\S/) {
-               # Force git to allow empty commit messages.
-               # (If this version of git supports it.)
-               my ($version)=`git --version` =~ /git version (.*)/;
-               if ($version ge "1.7.8") {
-                       push @opts, "--allow-empty-message", "--no-edit";
-               }
-               if ($version ge "1.7.2") {
-                       push @opts, "--allow-empty-message";
-               }
-               elsif ($version ge "1.5.4") {
-                       push @opts, '--cleanup=verbatim';
-               }
-               else {
-                       $params{message}.=".";
-               }
+               # Force a message to commit if none given.
+               $params{message}.="empty web commit";
        }
        if (exists $params{file}) {
                push @opts, '--', $params{file};