Install Nurpawiki from source

Note: this approach is harder than other methods, but is provided as a reference for developers or in case something goes wrong with packaged Nurpawiki.

Install Ocsigen & other required packages

Install Ocsigen through the GODI package manager.

Follow these instructions to install Nurpawiki on Debian / Ubuntu. If you encounter any problems, please file them as bugs into the issue tracker.

The installation procedure has been tested to work on Debian testing and Ubuntu 7.x or above. For Windows, I find it convenient to run Linux in vmware and use Linux for serving pages and Windows for browsing.

Get the source

Download the latest release from the downloads page.

You can also go for the latest and greatest by getting the source from SVN (see http://code.google.com/p/nurpawiki/source).

Schema installation

In order for Nurpawiki to properly use Postgresql for storing the wiki, you need to create a database for Nurpawiki and initialize its schema. See DatabaseInstallationDebian for instructions on creating the DB.

Load nurpawiki/schema.psql into your database:

As user postgres, run:

• psql nurpawiki < nurpawiki/schema.psql

Configuration

Run gen_ocsigen_config like so:

# NOTE: This depends on the way you configured your Postgresql.
# NOTE 3: See DB installation page for info on postgres user password & authentication
env DBNAME=nurpawiki DBUSER=postgres DBPASSWD=<pass> ./gen_ocsigen_config > nurpawiki.conf.local

The script will complain if some of the dependent libraries are not installed via ocamlfind.

Output of gen_ocsigen_config is piped to a file and will later on be passed to Ocsigen when you start the Ocsigen web server.

See SiteConfiguration for more info on configuring Nurpawiki.

Build Nurpawiki

Run make.

Start server

Run

ocsigen -c nurpawiki.conf.local