Setting Up Wiki on Centos 5.3

Prerequisites

• version of MoinMoin is 1.8.5

• installed python version from Centos distribution is: 2.4.3
• httpd user/group: apache/drawmgt

Details

• Check python is working:

   $ python -V
   Python 2.4.3

• Unpack and install MoinMoin as normal user

    mkdir -p ~/work/MoinMoin/tmp
    cd ~/work/MoinMoin/tmp
    tar xvzf moin-1.8.5.tar.gz

• The installation doc can be find in directory
  

  • moin-1.8.5/docs

• The installation doc can be viewed in browser
  

  • file:///home/ntibor/work/MoinMoin/tmp/moin-1.8.5/docs/INSTALL.html

  • as root
    • cd /home/ntibor/work/MoinMoin/tmp/moin-1.8.5 python setup.py install --prefix='/usr/local' --record=install.log

- Test the installation:

• [ntibor@centos1 moin-1.8.5]$ python Python 2.4.3 (#1, Jul 27 2009, 17:57:39) [GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

  >>> import MoinMoin >>>

- Create a wiki instance:

• Setup a wiki called 'wiki', located in /home/wiki

• Configuration variables:
  • export PREFIX=/usr/local export SHARE=${PREFIX}/share/moin export WIKILOCATION=/home/wiki export INSTANCE=wiki
    • # full path is ${WIKILOCATION}/${INSTANCE}
    export USER=apache export GROUP=drawmgt
  Setup as root:
  • cd /home mkdir wiki chmod go+w wiki cd $WIKILOCATION mkdir $INSTANCE # directory for this instance cp -R $SHARE/data $INSTANCE # template data directory cp -R $SHARE/underlay $INSTANCE # underlay data directory cp $SHARE/config/wikiconfig.py $INSTANCE # copy wiki cfg sample file

    chown -R $USER:$GROUP $INSTANCE chmod -R ug+rwX $INSTANCE # USER.GROUP may read and write chmod -R o-rwx $INSTANCE # everybody else is rejected

- Apache/Moin configuration (based on moin.cgi):

• cd $WIKILOCATION/$INSTANCE mkdir cgi-bin cp $SHARE/server/moin.cgi cgi-bin

  chown -R $USER:$GROUP cgi-bin chmod -R ug+rx cgi-bin chmod -R o-rwx cgi-bin vi cgi-bin/moin.cgi # Add the following lines (after the 'import sys' line) sys.path.insert(0,'/home/wiki/wiki') sys.path.insert(0, '/usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages') :x cd /etc/httpd/conf vi httpd.conf # -- Moin Moin V1.8.5 Test Wiki

  <Directory /usr/local/share/moin/htdocs>

  • Options

    AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit Order allow,deny Allow from all

  </Directory>

  <Directory /home/wiki/wiki/cgi-bin>

  • Options None

    AllowOverride AuthConfig Limit Order allow,deny Allow from all

  </Directory> Alias /moin_static185 /usr/local/share/moin/htdocs

  ScriptAlias /dev/wiki /home/wiki/wiki/cgi-bin/moin.cgi :x

- Setup wikiconfig.py

• cd /home/wiki/wiki cp wikiconfig.py wikiconfig.py-ORIG vi wikiconfig.py # Change:
  • data_dir = './data/' data_underlay_dir = './underlay/'
  # To:
  • data_dir = '/home/wiki/wiki/data/' data_underlay_dir = '/home/wiki/wiki/underlay/'
  :x

- Bounce apache

• /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

- Path to the wiki: Based on the ScriptAlias defined in httpd.conf

• http://localhost/dev/wiki

  • The basic wiki seems to work.

• apache configuration directory is /etc/httpd/conf

- extra steps are needed to access home from httpd (apache) because od the

• context security system of SELinux

- Other user/group for Wiki instnce:

• export USER=apache; export GROUP=drawmgt

- Apache configuration directory is NOT /usr/local/etc/apache2

• cd /etc/httpd/conf vi httpd.conf

• In last line '/e/vol001' is unnecessary

- Bounce apache: /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart - Path to wiki: http://localhost/dev/wiki