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[NearlyFreeSpeech.net](http://NearlyFreeSpeech.net) is a shared hosting
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provider with very cheap pay as you go pricing. Here's how to install ikiwiki
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there if you don't have a dedicated server.
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Note that you can also follow these instructions, get your wiki set up on
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NearlyFreeSpeech, and then use the [[plugins/Amazon_S3]] plugin to inject
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the static web pages into Amazon S3. Then NearlyFreeSpeech will handle the
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CGI, and S3 will handle the web serving. This might be a more cost effective,
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scalable, or robust solution than using NearlyFreeSpeech alone.
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## Register for an account and set up a site
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After you [get an account](https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/about/start.php),
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create a site using their web interface.
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Mine is named `ikiwiki-test` and I used their DNS instead of getting my
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own, resulting in <http://ikiwiki-test.nfshost.com/>. (Not being kept up
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anymore.)
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They gave me 2 cents free funding for signing up, which is enough to pay
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for 10 megabytes of bandwidth, or about a thousand typical page views, at
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their current rates. Plenty to decide if this is right for you. If it is,
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$5 might be a good starting amount of money to put in your account.
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## ssh in and configure the environment
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ssh into their server using the ssh hostname and username displayed on
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the site's information page. For me this was:
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ssh joeyh_ikiwiki-test@ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net
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Now set up .profile to run programs from ~/bin.
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cd $HOME
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echo "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" > .profile
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. .profile
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## Download an unpack ikiwiki
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Use `wget` to [[download]] the ikiwiki tarball. Then unpack it:
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tar zxvf ikiwiki*.tar.gz
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## Install perl modules
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As an optional step, you can use CPAN to install the perl modules ikiwiki
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uses into your home directory. This should not be necessary, mostly,
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because the system has most modules installed already.
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So, you might want to skip this step and come back to it later if ikiwiki
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doesn't work.
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PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->install("Bundle::IkiWiki")'
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PERL5LIB=`pwd`/ikiwiki:`pwd`/ikiwiki/cpan:`pwd`/lib/perl5 PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl -MCPAN -e 'CPAN::Shell->force(install => "Bundle::IkiWiki::Extras")'
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This will take a while. As long as the first command succeeds, ikiwiki will be
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usable. The second command adds extra modules that some plugins use, so it's
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ok if installation of some of them fail.
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## Build and install ikiwiki
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cd ikiwiki
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export MAKE=gmake
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perl Makefile.PL INSTALL_BASE=$HOME PREFIX=
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$MAKE
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$MAKE install
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## Set up a wiki in the usual way
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With ikiwiki installed, you can follow the regular [[setup]] tutorial for
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settng up your wiki. Make sure to set `destdir` to `/home/htdocs/` so that
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the wiki is published on the web site. I recommend using git for revision
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control; you can then clone your wiki's git repository as an offsite backup.
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Here is an example of how I set up a wiki:
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mkdir ~/wiki
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cd ~/wiki
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cp -r ~/ikiwiki/doc/examples/blog/* .
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ikiwiki --dumpsetup ikiwiki.setup
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nano ikiwiki.setup
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# Set destdir to /home/htdocs
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# Set srcdir to /home/private/wiki
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# Set url to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/
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# Set cgiurl to http://yoursite.nfshost.com/ikiwiki.cgi
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# Uncomment the `rcs => "git"` line.
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# Set the cgi_wrapper path to /home/htdocs/ikiwiki.cgi
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# Set the git_wrapper path to /home/private/wiki.git/hooks/post-update
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# Configure the rest to your liking and save the file.
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ikiwiki-makerepo git . ../wiki.git
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ikiwiki --setup ikiwiki.setup
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## Clean up
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Finally, you can save a _lot_ of disk space by cleaning up the ikiwiki
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tarball and .cpan directory and a few other peices of cruft. Since you'll be
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charged one cent per month per megabyte, this is a quick way to save several
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dollars.
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rm -rf ~/ikiwiki*.tar.gz ~/.cpan ~/ikiwiki ~/man ~/lib/perl5/5.8.8
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That should cut things down to less than 2 megabytes. If you want to save
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even more space, delete unused perl modules from ~/lib/perl5
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## Enjoy!
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Have fun and do good things. --[[Joey]]
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