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2. Moin Moin

MoinMoin is a Wiki engine implemented in Python, based on the PikiPiki Wiki engine, and licensed under the GNU GPL. 2.1. Installation To install MoinMoin, run the following command in the command prompt: sudo apt-get install python-moinmoin You should also install apache2 web server. For installing apache2 web server, please refer to Section 1.1, “Installation” [p. 187] sub-section in Section 1, “HTTPD - Apache2 Web Server” [p. 187] section. 2.2. Configuration For configuring your first Wiki application, please run the following set of commands. Let us assume that you are creating a Wiki named mywiki: cd usrsharemoin sudo mkdir mywiki sudo cp -R data mywiki sudo cp -R underlay mywiki sudo cp servermoin.cgi mywiki sudo chown -R www-data.www-data mywiki sudo chmod -R ug+rwX mywiki sudo chmod -R o-rwx mywiki Now you should configure MoinMoin to find your new Wiki mywiki. To configure MoinMoin, open etcmoinmywiki.py file and change the following line: data_dir = orgmywikidata to data_dir = usrsharemoinmywikidata Also, below the data_dir option add the data_underlay_dir: data_underlay_dir=usrsharemoinmywikiunderlay If the etcmoinmywiki.py file does not exists, you should copy usrsharemoin configwikifarmmywiki.py file to etcmoinmywiki.py file and do the above mentioned change. If you have named your Wiki as my_wiki_name you should insert a line “my_wiki_name, r.” in etcmoinfarmconfig.py file after the line “mywiki, r.”. 216 Once you have configured MoinMoin to find your first Wiki application mywiki, you should configure apache2 and make it ready for your Wiki application. You should add the following lines in etcapache2sites-availabledefault file inside the “VirtualHost ” tag: moin ScriptAlias mywiki usrsharemoinmywikimoin.cgi alias moin_static193 usrsharemoinhtdocs Directory usrsharemoinhtdocs Order allow,deny allow from all Directory end moin Once you configure the apache2 web server and make it ready for your Wiki application, you should restart it. You can run the following command to restart the apache2 web server: sudo service apache2 restart 2.3. Verification You can verify the Wiki application and see if it works by pointing your web browser to the following URL: http:localhostmywiki For more details, please refer to the MoinMoin 1 web site. 2.4. References • For more information see the moinmoin Wiki 2 . • Also, see the Ubuntu Wiki MoinMoin 3 page. 1 http:moinmo.in 2 http:moinmo.in 3 https:help.ubuntu.comcommunityMoinMoin 217

3. MediaWiki