Setting up a MoinMoin wiki

[jim]

for historical purposes here is how I got my wiki set up

all commands were performed as root su -

yum install moin

each line executed

mkdir /var/www/moin/mywiki 
cp -R /usr/share/moin/data /var/www/moin/mywiki
cp -R /usr/share/moin/underlay /var/www/moin/mywiki
cp -R /usr/share/moin/config/wikiconfig.py /var/www/moin/mywiki

set the permissions for the directories

chown -R apache:apache /var/www/moin   
chmod -R ug+rwX /var/www/moin    
chmod -R o-rwx /var/www/moin

create a moin.conf in the httpd directory like so...

gedit /etc/httpd/conf.d/moin.conf

add the following to the file

Alias /wiki/ "/usr/share/moin/htdocs/"
<Location /mywiki>
SetHandler python-program
# Add the path of your wiki directory
PythonPath "['/var/www/moin/mywiki'] + sys.path"
PythonHandler MoinMoin.request::RequestModPy.run
# Location value must match the Apache Location value!
PythonOption Location /mywiki
</Location>

Open the Moin configuration file you copied over earlier (wikiconfig.py) and edit it. You only have to modify it in a few places ( in red need to be adjusted to your configuration):

# Site name, used by default for wiki name-logo [Unicode]
sitename = u'The title of my new Wiki'

# Where your mutable wiki pages are. You want to make regular
# backups of this directory.
data_dir = '/var/www/moin/mywiki/data/'

# Where read-only system and help page are. You might want to share
# this directory between several wikis. When you update MoinMoin,
# you can safely replace the underlay directory with a new one. This
# directory is part of MoinMoin distribution, you don't have to
# backup it.
data_underlay_dir = '/var/www/moin/mywiki/underlay/'

finally restart httpd

/sbin/service httpd restart

Browse to http://localhost/mywiki

configure away !!

[j_baer]

Jim,

Great how-to. I am trying set get email working. Do you have any advice in setting up the wikiconfig.py file?

Thanks,

John

[glennzo]

Help! Jim, I followed your how-to to the letter, in fact I used cut and paste for all the commands, and I get this:

[root@oldendorff ~]# /sbin/service httpd restart
Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
Starting httpd: httpd: Syntax error on line 209 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Syntax error on line 9 of /etc/httpd/conf.d/moin.conf: </Location> directive missing closing '>'
[FAILED]

So this is above my level of expertise. Any thoughts?

[glennzo]

Forget it. I figured it out. The last line in /etc/httpd/conf.d/moin.conf was missing the closing bracket.

[Flailios]

I know this thread is old, but if anyone is following this as a guide, watch for type-o at the end of this line.... .../mywik = mywiki

cp -R /usr/share/moin/config/wikiconfig.py /var/www/moin/mywik

[glennzo]

Typo fixed and thread duly closed.