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too big for my needs, not enough flexibility ↩
A pain to set up and administer, easy to use though ↩
So far. Easy to set up, easy to use, Excellent documentation ↩

Setting up a MoinMoin wiki

22nd Jan 2009

This is time consuming and I ultimately didn’t use the thing in the end. Not enough guidance.

MoinMoin was supposedly an easy wiki to use. It is, sort of. This is how I set it up in the end. It’s based around the FTP install instructions, however I used my SSH access to do most of it.

Things I had (and Didn’t)

SSH access
No access to anything other than CGI ¹
No root access

How I did it

Just for reference the folder structure was:

  [wiki.site.com]
   |
   +- [HTML[
   |
   +- [cgi-bin]

Setting up

Connect to the sever, use wget to fetch MoinMoin to wiki.site.com folder.
untar and rename to something easier.
Create .htaccess file in the HTML directory to enable CGI anywhere ²

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
 
Options +ExecCGI

Copying folders + files

You need to copy three folders out of the untar’d moin directory into the wiki.site.com folder: wiki/data, wiki/underlay and MoinMoin.

  [wiki.site.com]
   |
   +- [HTML]
   |
   +- [cgi-bin]
   |
   +- [data]
   |
   +- [underlay]
   |
   +- [MoinMoin]

Copy the contents of the htdocs folder (cp -R moin/wiki/htdocs/* html/moin_static181) into a folder called moin_static181 in the HTML folder.

  [wiki.site.com]
   |
   +- [HTML]
   |     | 
   |     +-[moin_static181]
   |
   +- [cgi-bin]
   |
   +- [data]
   |
   +- [underlay]
   |
   +- [MoinMoin]

Create a folder called config and copy wikiconfig.py from moin/wiki/config/ into it.

  [wiki.site.com]
   |
   +- [HTML]
   |     | 
   |     +-[moin_static181]
   |
   +- [cgi-bin]
   |
   +- [data]
   |
   +- [underlay]
   |
   +- [MoinMoin]
   |
   +- [config]

Copy moin/wiki/server/moin.cgi into the HTML folder.

Edit configs

moin.cgi

Three things need changing:

#!/usr/bin/env python to #!/usr/bin/python
uncomment # sys.path.insert(0, 'PREFIX/lib/pythonX.X/site-packages') and change it to # sys.path.insert(0, '../')
find sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/wikiconfig') and change to sys.path.insert(0, '../config')

wikiconfig.py

Two things to change:

data_dir to data_dir = '../data/'
underlay_dir to data_underlay_dir = '../underlay/'

And that’s it!

You will now have a functioning MoinMoin wiki.

Playing around though I wasn’t impressed though, too much still needed to be done.

FastCGI is installed, but out of my reach to configure ↩
This is not the best thing to do, but saves huge problems later ↩

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