Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

2020-12-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
Unsurprisingly, at least in my (perhaps jaundiced?) view, running ikiwiki out of /var/www/html resulted in much snappier behaviour: http://trollboy.ddns.net:8080/Bob2084/posts/first_post/ -- These are not the droids you are looking for.

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

2020-12-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
So I have an install of Ikiwiki limping along. I know ikiwiki is a bear of a package to maintain, since it depends at least half of all known perl modules. To get where I am tonight I had to go out and apt-get libcgi-session-perl and libcgi-formbuilder-perl. I suspect the deficiencies I'm seein

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

2020-12-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote: According to (1) you should use: % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup" I went back and began again. I appear to have been much more successful. The fly in the ointment now is that although the needed cgi file was created, my system seems to t

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

2020-12-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote: According to (1) you should use: "% ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto.setup Or, set up a blog with ikiwiki, run this command instead. % ikiwiki --setup /etc/ikiwiki/auto-blog.setup" I used the latter of the two above methods to create my initial setup f

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

2020-12-12 Thread john doe
On 12/12/2020 8:38 PM, john doe wrote: On 12/12/2020 8:08 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote: From /home/bob I run: $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers and see this error: "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or directory" D

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

2020-12-12 Thread john doe
On 12/12/2020 8:08 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote: From /home/bob I run: $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers and see this error: "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or directory" Does the directory exist? No. If I crea

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

2020-12-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sat, 12 Dec 2020, john doe wrote: From /home/bob I run: $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers and see this error: "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or directory" Does the directory exist? No. If I create it, and then run the ikiwiki setup comman

Re: Ikiwiki on Debian

2020-12-12 Thread john doe
On 12/12/2020 7:34 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: Using apt-get I have ikiwiki 3.20190228-1 on an amd64 Buster. From /home/bob I run: $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers and see this error: "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or directory" Does the directo

Ikiwiki on Debian

2020-12-12 Thread Bob Bernstein
Using apt-get I have ikiwiki 3.20190228-1 on an amd64 Buster. From /home/bob I run: $ ikiwiki --setup Bob2021.setup --wrappers and see this error: "cannot write to /home/bob/Bob2021/.ikiwiki/lockfile: No such file or directory" Here is the top of that Bob2021. setup file. I hope I have th