MiniHOWTO deploy MoinMoin in Jumpline
Web March 1st, 2008
MoinMoin immediately jumps to my mind when I consider to deploy a Wiki for drafting. The official Wiki hosts a very complete HOWTO using Apache and mod_python. However, this HOWTO is based upon another basic installation and WikiInstanceCreation. Well, I must admit that patience is a cherished virtue that I am lacking, so I jumped to the mod_python, and hope this MiniHOWTO could save some time for other impatient developers as well:
Boilerplate
Install MoinMoin, setup the mod_python and configure the virtual host(wiki.kunxi.org in my case).
Prepare the data
For the sake of security and easy maintain, the code residents in /var/www/moin, and the data is stored in /var/www/wiki. So we need to copy the data from the Moin’s share:
cp -R /usr/local/share/moin/underlay /var/www/wiki
cp /usr/local/share/moin/wikiconfig.py /var/www/moin
Modify data_dir and data_underlay_dir in wikiconfig.py to reflect the change; and set the url_prefix as /wiki
Configure the mod_python
It is time to glue departed pieces in httpd.conf:
ServerName wiki.kunxi.org
DocumentRoot /var/www/moin
SetHandler python-program
PythonPath "['/var/www/moin'] + sys.path"
PythonHandler MoinMoin.request::RequestModPy.run
PythonDebug Off
# Rewrite urls
RewriteEngine On
RewriteLogLevel 0
# map /wiki static files to Moin htdocs
RewriteRule ^/wiki/(.*)$ /usr/local/share/moin/htdocs/$1 [last]
# map everything else to server script
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /var/www/moin/moinmodpy.py$1
<Location "/wiki">
SetHandler None
</Location>
</VirtualHost>
First, we setup MoinMoin’s mod_py handler to handle the virtual host, wiki.kunxi.org; then set the alias /wiki to the moin’s shared doc, and disable the mod_python handler there. Done.
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