If you specify --init or --load instead --server, then tiddlywiki.js will make that the data directory. Then you specify that directory when you specify --server and it will serve the files from that folder.
You can find more info on TiddlyWiki.com or by exploring the code. On Jan 3, 2017 10:55 PM, "'Mark S.' via TiddlyWiki" < [email protected]> wrote: > In your example, what is "../data/wiki1" and where does it come from? > > Thanks! > Mark > > On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 7:26:43 PM UTC-8, Arlen Beiler wrote: >> >> Anything is possible over HTTP. How are you going to save changes? >> >> From reading your email, I guess you don't know that you can just >> download any tag or the master from the TiddlyWiki GitHub repository, drop >> node.exe into it and call "node.exe tiddlywiki.js ../data/wiki1 --server" >> and your good to go. Easy on Windows, don't know about Linux or Mac, but >> you're a software developer :) >> >> (At first I was going to use the stock "I guess you know...") :-) >> >> Also several of us are working on serving multiple wikis as separate >> folders instead of seperate server instances. >> >> https://gist.github.com/Arlen22/bbd852f68e328165e49f >> >> Hope that helps. >> >> On Jan 3, 2017 7:50 PM, "Evade Flow" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> > is there some way I can access/modify this collection of files using >>> only git and a browser? >>> >>> Driving home this evening, I realized this was a bit of a silly question >>> for somebody who professes to be a software developer by trade to ask—doh! >>> (Can you tell I'm not a web developer?) Looking at the files processed by >>> tiddlywiki+NodeJS, I see that *none* of them are HTML. It truly is >>> "tiddlers all the way down", so... *something* has to convert all those >>> .tid files to HTML so the browser can display them. >>> >>> I guess I should rephrase my question as: is there some way of serving >>> multi-file TW content that requires less setup work than NodeJS? I'm >>> thinking about how Python contains builtin modules that let you run >>> something like this in a folder: >>> >>> $ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 >>> >>> >>> For me, this would be a big win because (as it happens) just about every >>> machine I work on already has Python installed. And they *all* have >>> Perl, which I believe has a similar (built-in) capability[?] So it would be >>> "one less thing" to worry about it when configuring a new environment. >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 4:44:43 PM UTC-5, Evade Flow wrote: >>>> >>>> I've been experimenting with TiddlyWiki and NodeJS, and discovered that >>>> 'importing' my mono-html file (using tiddlywiki --load) causes it to >>>> be converted into a bunch of discrete files. Further experiments reveal >>>> that it is possible—seemingly, at least—to sync these files (and hence, my >>>> entire wiki) to multiple machines using git push/pull. The one catch >>>> is: it appears that the only way to actually *use* a TiddlyWiki >>>> structured this way is to serve it using NodeJS? Is that correct? Or... is >>>> there some way I can access/modify this collection of files using only git >>>> and a browser? >>>> >>>> I ask because the setup I'm fumbling my way towards seems a bit... >>>> cumbersome. I'm a software developer by trade, so sync'ing git repos to >>>> multiple machines comes as naturally as breathing. In contrast, doing a >>>> local install of Node + npm + tiddlywiki on each machine I want to access >>>> the data from feels like a lot of extra effort. I use Windows and Linux at >>>> work, and OS X at home, and I'd rather not bother figuring out the nuances >>>> of how to do that dance on all three platforms—especially given that I >>>> don't have admin/root access on all the machines I'd like to access my >>>> wiki(s) from. >>>> >>>> I already have a *killer* setup for managing my myriad config files ( >>>> .vimrc, .zshrc, .tmux.conf, etc.) and various plugins using myrepos >>>> <https://myrepos.branchable.com/> and vcsh >>>> <https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh>. *Everything* is stored in git, so I >>>> can sync my setup around to whatever machines I want. It would be >>>> enormously helpful if I could do the same with my TiddlyWiki(s). Is this >>>> possible? >>>> >>>> *NOTE*: After trying it a few times, I don't have much interest in >>>> trying to sync changes to monolithic TW files. The mono-HTML files are >>>> huge, and the diffs contain so much 'noise' that trying to merge updates >>>> from multiple machines seems like an impossibility. (Perhaps I'll find that >>>> the multi-file layout has quirks/pitfalls of its own, but so far, it seems >>>> really easy to understand and reason about...) >>>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ms >>> gid/tiddlywiki/e5c24183-b6aa-43a1-a682-2fc8137f4fab%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/e5c24183-b6aa-43a1-a682-2fc8137f4fab%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/tiddlywiki/3a14ab02-3b7a-43c0-8716-f0e466d8a4dd%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/3a14ab02-3b7a-43c0-8716-f0e466d8a4dd%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/CAJ1vdSQcNDer3bTrmtSnQwkZm%3DQ-1jat%2Bm1QTeP7gKEpPN6_PA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
