MoinMoin On Dreamhost

Installation

• Download Moin:

  $ wget http://static.moinmo.in/files/moin-1.9.3.tar.gz

• Extract files:

  $ tar xvzf moin-1.9.3.tar.gz

• Install to local home directory:

  $ cd moin-1.9.3
  $ python setup.py --quiet install --prefix=~ --record=install.log

• Create a wiki instance:

  $ mkdir ~/wiki
  $ cd ~/wiki
  $ ln -s ~/lib/python2.5/site-packages/MoinMoin/web/static/htdocs .
  $ ln -s ~/share/moin/underlay .
  $ cp -r ~/share/moin/data .
  $ cp ~/share/moin/server/moin.cgi .
  $ cp ~/share/moin/config/wikiconfig.py .

• Create ~/wiki/.htaccess file with contents:

  AddHandler cgi-script .cgi
  Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
  DirectoryIndex moin.cgi
  
  # start the rewrite engine
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /wiki
  
  RewriteRule ^htdocs/ - [L]
  RewriteRule ^moin.cgi - [L]
  
  # If you want to hide the moin.cgi from the URLs, in moin.cgi
  # replace the line that says
  #     properties = {}
  # for a line like this one:
  #     properties = {'script_name':'/'})
  # and uncomment the following line
  RewriteRule ^(.*) moin.cgi/$1 [T=application/x-httpd-cgi]

• Set the appropriate permissions:

  $ chmod 644 ~/wiki/wikiconfig.py
  $ chmod 755 ~/wiki/moin.cgi
  $ chmod 644 ~/wiki/.htaccess
  $ chmod -R u+rwX ~/wiki/data
  $ chmod -R go-w ~/wiki/data

• Change ~/wiki/moin.cgi with the following patch:

  --- /home/zhigang/share/moin/server/moin.cgi    2009-06-09 12:49:49.000000000 -0700
  +++ /home/zhigang/wiki/moin.cgi 2009-08-09 19:51:24.000000000 -0700
  @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
  -#!/usr/bin/env python
  +#!/usr/bin/python2.5
   # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
   """
       MoinMoin - CGI Driver Script
  @@ -17,11 +17,13 @@ import sys, os
   # a1) Path of the directory where the MoinMoin code package is located.
   #     Needed if you installed with --prefix=PREFIX or you didn't use setup.py.
   #sys.path.insert(0, 'PREFIX/lib/python2.3/site-packages')
  +sys.path.insert(0, '/home/zhigang/lib/python2.5/site-packages')
  
   # a2) Path of the directory where wikiconfig.py / farmconfig.py is located.
   #     See wiki/config/... for some sample config files.
   #sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/wikiconfigdir')
   #sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/farmconfigdir')
  +sys.path.insert(0, '/home/zhigang/wiki')
  
   # b) Configuration of moin's logging
   #    If you have set up MOINLOGGINGCONF environment variable, you don't need this!
  @@ -44,6 +46,7 @@ class Config(CgiConfig):
       # Allow overriding any request property by the value defined in
       # this dict e.g properties = {'script_name': '/mywiki'}.
       ## properties = {}
  +    properties= {'script_name': '/wiki'}
  
       # Hotshot profile (default commented)
       ## hotshotProfile = name + '.prof'

• Make a link to the new wiki directory:

  $ cd ~/zhigang.org
  $ ln -s ../wiki .

• Change ~/zhigang.org/.htaccess to allow access of the wiki with the following patch:

  --- .htaccess.orig      2008-12-29 08:09:07.000000000 -0800
  +++ .htaccess   2008-12-29 05:14:45.000000000 -0800
  @@ -99,6 +99,10 @@ DirectoryIndex index.php
     RewriteEngine On
     RewriteBase /
  
  +  # Enable wiki
  +  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/wiki/(.*)$
  +  RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L]
  +
     # Enable stats
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/stats/(.*)$ [OR]
     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/failed_auth.html$

• Language setup: http://zhigang.org/wiki/LanguageSetup?action=language_setup&pageset=all_pages&language=English

• Testing: http://zhigang.org/wiki/

Optimization

Common CGI is pretty slow in Dreamhost. Instead, we can use FastCGI.

• Enable FastCGI for your site in Dreamhost Control Panel: https://panel.dreamhost.com/

• Copy script:

  $ cd ~/wiki
  $ cp ~/share/moin/server/moin.fcg moin.fcgi
  $ chmod 755 moin.fcgi

  Note

  You must change the extension from "fcg" to "fcgi".

• Make necessary changes as for moin.cgi.

• Replace the contents of ~/wiki/.htaccess with:

  AddHandler fastcgi-script .fcgi
  Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
  DirectoryIndex moin.fcgi
  
  # start the rewrite engine
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteBase /wiki
  
  RewriteRule ^htdocs/ - [L]
  RewriteRule ^moin.fcgi - [L]
  
  # If you want to hide the moin.cgi from the URLs, in moin.fcgi
  # replace the line that says
  #     properties = {}
  # for a line like this one:
  #     properties = {'script_name':'/'})
  # and uncomment the following line
  RewriteRule ^(.*) moin.fcgi/$1 [T=application/x-httpd-fcgi]

• Test the wiki: http://zhigang.org/wiki/ or http://zhigang.org/wiki/moin.fcgi

Add Advertisement

To add Google Adsense to your site, just add the ad code to the "page_footer1" (or other variables) in wikiconfig.py. Eg:

# Add advertisement
page_footer1 = '''<div align="center">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-5285936463757055";
/* 728x90, created 1/1/09 */
google_ad_slot = "9618510425";
google_ad_width = 728;
google_ad_height = 90;
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</div>'''

Submit sitemap to google

Use the url: http://zhigang.org/wiki/?action=sitemap&underlay=0

Reference

• MoinMoin: http://moinmo.in/
• Another Install MoinMoin On Dreamhost I referenced: http://mitch.contlafamily.com/wiki/HOWTO/Install_MoinMoin_On_Dreamhost
• Moin setup on Dreamhost Wiki: http://wiki.dreamhost.com/MoinMoin
• Google Webmaster Tools: http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
• http://moinmo.in/FeatureRequests/DisableUserCreation