oddmuse

This is the README file distributed together with the
[[https://oddmuse.org/|Oddmuse]] script.

== Installing Oddmuse on a Debian System running Apache

The following instructions require a number of tools. You can make sure
they're all installed by issuing the following command as {{{root}}}:

{{{
apt-get install coreutils apache2 sudo wget w3m perl \
libwww-perl libxml-rss-perl diffutils
}}}

You probably created an account for yourself. You might have to add this
user to the {{{sudo}}} group. Here's how I created my own user as
{{{root}}}:

{{{
adduser alex
usermod -a -G sudo alex
}}}

Now you can login as {{{alex}}} and do everything else using {{{sudo}}}.

You need to copy wiki.pl into your cgi-bin directory, and you need to
make the script executable.

{{{
sudo wget -O /usr/lib/cgi-bin/wiki.pl \
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/oddmuse.git/plain/wiki.pl
sudo chmod +x /usr/lib/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
}}}

You should be able to test it right now! Visit
{{{http://localhost/cgi-bin/wiki.pl}}}. If your site is available from
the outside, you will be able to use a normal browser. If don't have a
domain name yet, you'll probably have to use a text browser like
{{{w3m}}}.

{{{
w3m http://localhost/cgi-bin/wiki.pl
}}}

If you create pages in this wiki, these will get stored in a temporary
directory. You need change the data directory from {{{"/tmp/oddmuse"}}}
to like {{{"/var/local/oddmuse"}}}. The best way to do this without
changing {{{wiki.pl}}} is by editing
{{{/etc/apache2/sites-available/default}}}. Add the following line:

{{{
SetEnv WikiDataDir /var/local/oddmuse
}}}

Enable the default site by calling the following command:

{{{
sudo a2ensite default
}}}

Reload the Apache configuration by calling the following command:

{{{
sudo service apache2 reload
}}}

You need to create the new data directory. You webserver runs CGI
scripts as {{{www-data}}}. Thus, you need to change the owner and group
of the directory to {{{www-data}}}.

{{{
sudo mkdir -p /var/local/oddmuse
sudo chown www-data.www-data /var/local/oddmuse
}}}

Done! Visit your wiki and start editing. Click on the edit link (the
first link below the navigation bar, at the bottom of the page). This
will allow you to enter some text for this page. Click the Save button
and you are done.

To add new pages, edit the homepage and add links to new pages by
putting their names in {{{[[double square brackets]]}}}.

Enjoy your wiki experience.

Visit https://www.oddmuse.org/ to learn more about the translation
files and modules that are part of this package.

== Apache

If you think this information doesn't work for you, here are some things
to check.

Apache's config directory is {{{/etc/apache2/apache2.conf}}}. This is
where we get the {{{www-data}}} username from. It says:

{{{
# These need to be set in /etc/apache2/envvars
User ${APACHE_RUN_USER}
Group ${APACHE_RUN_GROUP}
}}}

Checking {{{/etc/apache2/envvars}}} we see the following:

{{{
export APACHE_RUN_USER=www-data
export APACHE_RUN_GROUP=www-data
}}}

So that's what we're using in the {{{chown}}} command in our
instructions above.

The default site is configured in
{{{/etc/apache2/sites-available/default}}}. In order for it to be
//enabled//, there must be a symlink from a file in
{{{/etc/apache2/sites-enabled}}} to the file in
{{{sites-available}}}. You can enable it using the following command:

{{{
sudo a2ensite default
}}}

This file also lists the directories we've used in out instructions
above.

{{{
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
}}}

This means that {{{http://localhost/cgi-bin/wiki.pl}}} will call
{{{/usr/lib/cgi-bin/wiki.pl}}}

Don't forget to reload the Apache configuration as shown above, or
simply restart it all:

{{{
sudo service apache2 graceful
}}}

== License

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.

Both the GNU Free Documentation License, and the GNU General Public
License are distributed together with this script. See the files
[[https://github.com/kensanata/oddmuse/blob/master/FDL|FDL]] and
[[https://github.com/kensanata/oddmuse/blob/master/GPL|GPL]],
respectively.