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  Ikiwiki on Debian Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2020-12-12 19:40 +0100
    Re: Ikiwiki on Debian john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-12 19:50 +0100
      Re: Ikiwiki on Debian Bob Bernstein <bob@fanatick.org> - 2020-12-12 20:40 +0100
        Re: Ikiwiki on Debian john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-12 20:40 +0100
          Re: Ikiwiki on Debian john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2020-12-12 21:00 +0100
            Re: Ikiwiki on Debian Bob Bernstein <bob@fanatick.org> - 2020-12-12 22:30 +0100
              Re: Ikiwiki on Debian Bob Bernstein <bob@fanatick.org> - 2020-12-12 23:00 +0100
              Re: Ikiwiki on Debian Bob Bernstein <bob@fanatick.org> - 2020-12-13 01:10 +0100
              Re: Ikiwiki on Debian Bob Bernstein <bob@fanatick.org> - 2020-12-13 02:10 +0100

#229712 — Ikiwiki on Debian

Using apt-get I have ikiwiki 3.20190228-1 on an amd64 Buster.

>From /home/bob I run:

$ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers

and see this error:

"cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such 
file or directory"

Here is the top of that Bob2021. setup file. I hope I have the 
syntax correct for the userdir tildes

--snip--

# IkiWiki::Setup::Yaml - YAML formatted setup file
#
# Setup file for ikiwiki.
# 
# Passing this to ikiwiki --setup will make ikiwiki generate
# wrappers and build the wiki.
# 
# Remember to re-run ikiwiki --setup any time you edit this file.
#
# name of the wiki
wikiname: Bob2021
# contact email for wiki
adminemail: bob@fanatick.org
# users who are wiki admins
adminuser:
- bob
# users who are banned from the wiki
banned_users: []
# where the source of the wiki is located
srcdir: /home/bob/Bob2021
# where to build the wiki
destdir: /home/bob/public_html/Bob2021
# base url to the wiki
url: http://trollboy.ddns.net:8080/~bob/Bob2021
# url to the ikiwiki.cgi
cgiurl: http://trollboy.ddns.net:8080/~bob/Bob2021/ikiwiki.cgi
# do not adjust cgiurl if CGI is accessed via different URL
reverse_proxy: 0
# filename of cgi wrapper to generate
cgi_wrapper: /home/bob/public_html/Bob2021/ikiwiki.cgi
# mode for cgi_wrapper (can safely be made suid)
cgi_wrappermode: 06755

-- snip --

Thank you.

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#229713

On 12/12/2020 7:34 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Using apt-get I have ikiwiki 3.20190228-1 on an amd64 Buster.
>
>> From /home/bob I run:
>
> $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers
>
> and see this error:
>
> "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or
> directory"
>

Does the directory exist?

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#229718

On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote:

>>> From /home/bob I run:
>> 
>> $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers
>> 
>> and see this error:
>> 
>> "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such 
>> file or directory"

> Does the directory exist?

No. If I create it, and then run the ikiwiki setup command, I 
get this error:

"fatal: not in a git directory
'git config user.name IkiWiki' failed:"

But my experience with ikiwiki has been that it creates the dirs 
it needs on initial installation of an ikiwiki instance.


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#229719

On 12/12/2020 8:08 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote:
>
>>>> From /home/bob I run:
>>>
>>> $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers
>>>
>>> and see this error:
>>>
>>> "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or
>>> directory"
>
>> Does the directory exist?
>
> No. If I create it, and then run the ikiwiki setup command, I get this
> error:
>
> "fatal: not in a git directory
> 'git config user.name IkiWiki' failed:"
>

Try to populate your name and e-mail in your .gitconfig file.

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#229721

On 12/12/2020 8:38 PM, john doe wrote:
> On 12/12/2020 8:08 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote:
>>
>>>>> From /home/bob I run:
>>>>
>>>> $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers
>>>>
>>>> and see this error:
>>>>
>>>> "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or
>>>> directory"
>>
>>> Does the directory exist?
>>
>> No. If I create it, and then run the ikiwiki setup command, I get this
>> error:
>>
>> "fatal: not in a git directory
>> 'git config user.name IkiWiki' failed:"
>>
>
> Try to populate your name and e-mail in your .gitconfig file.
>

According to (1) you should use:

"% ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead.
% ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup"


Or are you trying to setup it by hand (2)?


1)  https://ikiwiki.info/setup/
2)  https://ikiwiki.info/setup/byhand/

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#229723

On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote:

> According to (1) you should use:
>
> "% ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup
> Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command 
> instead.
> % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup"

I used the latter of the two above methods to create my initial 
setup file.

> Or are you trying to setup it by hand (2)?

No.

I'll give it another try from scratch.


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#229724

> On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote:
>
>> According to (1) you should use:

>> % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup"

I went back and began again. I appear to have been much more 
successful. The fly in the ointment now is that although the 
needed cgi file was created, my system seems to think I need to 
download and save another one.

I wonder if my apache2 site needs to enable cgi for the UserDir 
location, public_html, including, of course, +ExecCGI?

Hmmm...time to do a little research.


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#229730

So I have an install of Ikiwiki limping along. I know ikiwiki is 
a bear of a package to maintain, since it depends at least half 
of all known perl modules. To get where I am tonight I had to go 
out and apt-get libcgi-session-perl and libcgi-formbuilder-perl. 
I suspect the deficiencies I'm seeing now are more products of 
some fuzziness in this machine's network (firefox?) performance 
than in ikiwiki per se, which has run quite solidly and for some 
time on a BSD machine I have, whose OS shall go unnamed if I 
may..

I don't like publishing to the web out of a Userdir-based 
install. Don't like all those ~bob's around. I may rework this 
to run out of good old /var/www/html, and see if things improve.

Thank you Mr. Doe.

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#229732

Unsurprisingly, at least in my (perhaps jaundiced?) view, running 
ikiwiki out of /var/www/html resulted in much snappier 
behaviour:

http://trollboy.ddns.net:8080/Bob2084/posts/first_post/


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