Amir, if you need any help talk to me, I might not be the best perler here but I can help :) same about the server (I use fedora so I can help with rpm a bit)
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Amir Eldor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > (After Tzafrit Cohen yelled at me a bit): > I was mistaken. I forgot to mention I had to install IkiWiki on a CentOS 6 > system. Being unfamiliar with Perl, its modules, and RPM-based distros, it > took me a while to understand what I'm doing (bexol zot, psixometri > namoox). There's a .deb package for Debian and Debian-based distros for > IkiWiki. That makes installation easier, I tried it on a Debian host I own. > > Oh, I've just remembered. The wiki default creation script of IkiWiki is a > bit weird. It creates the wiki under your $HOME, and then when moving it > around the filesystem to an appropriate location, you have to manually edit > the configuration file for that wiki and run a setup on it again. A minor > annoyance though. > > Some points to make out about Linux.org.il's features as I see it now > after reading your emails: > - It should be a Wiki editable online > - Should be served as static HTML pages just because it sounds awesome > - Should be based on text files rather than MySQL or other databases > engines, just because it's cool and you can distribute the content easily > that way on a GitHub/BitBucket instead of forcing users to start installing > database engines and distribute all kinds of database dumps > > I'm hungry. > > So I guess we are going to stick with IkiWiki and hope we won't have to > use a RPM-based distro on the final HaMakor server that will host the > website. > > Next steps: > - Me learning how to theme IkiWiki (should be easy through one of its > plugins) > - We deciding on who's going to graphically design the Linux.org.ilwebsite > :( - @board: are we willing to pay for this or do we stick to some > ugly GIMP-based mockup that someone can hack for us? > > Thanks, > Amir > > > > On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Tomer Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If Perl (or Rails or node.js for that matter) hosting is too expensive to >> us while hosting other content management systems is far easier to >> maintain, I don't see how we going forward with this discussion. Sorry >> Shlomi, sometimes using the most efficient solution isn't the best solution >> because we have limited resources after all. >> >> Tomer Cohen >> http://tomercohen.com >> >> (Sent from a mobile device 📱) >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Discussions mailing list > [email protected] > http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions >
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