Manual Ikiwiki creation

1. Decide on a name
   • reponame=hello
2. Make a new git bare repo:
   • cd /srv/git (or some other place for storing bare repos, just keep in mind you need to change the git wrapper in the setup file later)
   • GIT_DIR=$reponame.git git init --shared # shared being useful if you want this to be multi-user, harmless otherwise
   • edit $reponame.git/description to show an appropriate description in GitWeb/cgit
3. Make a clone for yourself to work with:
   • cd ~/src (or whatever)
   • mkdir $reponame
   • cd $reponame
   • git init
   • Now add some content into it. cp /usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/index.mdwn . for instance
   • git add .
   • git commit
   • git remote add origin /srv/git/$reponame # the '.git' suffix is optional
   • git push origin master
   • git config branch.master.remote origin
   • git config branch.master.merge refs/heads/master
4. Make a clone for Ikiwiki:
   • cd /srv/ikiwiki (or some other place, just keep in mind you need to change srcdir in the setup file later)
   • git clone /srv/git/$reponame
   • curl http://piny.be/jrayhawk/notes/examplewiki.setup | sed 's/\<examplewiki\>/$reponame/g' > $reponame.setup # feel free to put the setup file anywhere
   • Tweak other settings in $reponame.setup (like wikiname, adminemail, urls, and add_plugins) as desired.
5. Make a destination directory for rendered files:
   • mkdir /var/www/$reponame (or some other place, just keep in mind you need to change destdir and cgi wrapper in the setup file now)
6. Render
   • ikiwiki --setup $reponame.setup --verbose

If you need to make further changes, edit /srv/ikiwiki/$reponame.setup and run ikiwiki --setup /srv/ikiwiki/$reponame.setup --rebuild --verbose