This is a simple set of files for bootstrapping a git-backed instance of ikiwiki. I put this together to make it easier to get started with ikiwiki than following the standad instructions: http://ikiwiki.info/setup/ Features ======== Here are some of the key features of what I've got setup: 1. Self-contained. The ikiwiki configuration file, the templates, and source files are all together in one repository. 2. Minimal The default ikiwiki setup instructions would pull in a bunch of "stock" wiki pages and some underlay content. This setup saves you the hassle of having to prune any of that out. 3. Pre-configured for git Most of the git-specific settings you need are already setup in ikiwiki.setup. One that is not is that the generated wrapper is placed into ikiwiki-post-update rather than going directly into git's post-update---so you will have to manually edit post-update to call ikiwiki-post-update, (perhaps in addition to anything else you want to do in post-update). See below. Usage ===== To start choose where the bare git repository will exist on your web server and where you'd like the HTML results to be published to. Edit ikiwiki.setup and fill these in for gitrepo and destdir. Next, follow these steps to setup gitrepo along with a nested checkout inside of it that ikiwiki will use: mkdir -p $gitrepo cd $gitrepo GIT_DIR=. git init-db Then, push the contents of this repository out to $gitrepo and continue with the following commands (still with $gitrepo as the current working directory): git clone $gitrepo ikiwiki-checkout cd ikiwiki-checkout ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup And finally, edit $gitrepo/hooks/post-update to call the new $gitrepo/hooks/ikiwiki-post-update program and also don't forget to actually enable the hook with: chmod a+x $gitrepo/hooks/post-update . Now, you're finally ready to go, and you should be able to just start adding content under the src directory and use "git push" to publish them. To preview things locally, just run "ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup", (and ensure the destination paths exist on the local machine as well). Let me know if you have any problems or questions, Carl Worth