MoinMoin: JohnWhitlock

JohnWhitlock

Email: <john DASH whit SPAMFREE lock AT ieee DOT org>

I'm using MoinMoin on a local intranet site. We're still at the "one geek playing around" stage, so no success stories to report. I'm using the moinmoin-1.2.2 package with Gentoo, and it was a bit of a pain to get it working. Here are my steps:

• Moved moinmoin folder to below htdocs, which seemed insecure to me

cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs
mv moinmoin ../mywiki

• Created local.conf to keep from polluting other .conf files too much:

vi /etc/apache2/conf/local.conf

ServerAdmin myemail@mydomain.com

Alias /wiki/ "/var/www/localhost/mywiki/"
Alias /moinmoin/ "/var/www/localhost/mywiki/"
ScriptAlias /mywiki "/var/www/localhost/mywiki/moin.cgi"

<Directory /var/www/localhost/mywiki/>
        Options ExecCGI
        <IfModule mod_access.c>
                Order allow,deny
                Allow from all
        </IfModule>
</Directory>

• Added this to the Apache configuration

vi /etc/apache2/conf/apache2.conf
(At line 91 or so):
Include conf/local.conf

• Restarted apache server

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

• Modified moin_config.py

vi /var/www/localhost/mywiki
url_prefix = '/wiki'

• Fixed Unpickling error (MoinMoinBugs/UnpicklingError)

• Fixed filesys.py (MoinMoinBugs/FutureErrorInFilesys)

• Added moinmoin dictionary

  • Get american-english dictionary from http://moin.sourceforge.net/files/

  • Put it in /usr/share/dict (other dicts here are unsuitable, because they don't have verb forms or plural versions)
  • Create directory /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/MoinMoin/dict
  • Create link to american-english in /dict
  • delete dict.* in /var/www/localhost/mywiki/data
  • regen dict.* by doing a spell check

If those thoughts were more organized, I'd make a InstallingOnGentoo page. Maybe I should anyway. If I was more motivated, I'd figure out the package system and make a better moinmoin package for Gentoo.

I created a theme based on rightsidebar, but it's not ready for prime time. Neither is rightsidebar - I've had to make several changes to make it work for me

• UserPreferences is screwy - see MoinMoinBugs/RightSideBarUserPreferences

• It doesn't relocate well to data/plugins/themes - see MoinMoinBugs/RightSideBarUserPreferences again

• No option to use an icon rather than the page text - setting a variable would be nice

But still, it made it easier to get to my layout than a straight css modification of classic.

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