MonkeyWiki Installation

Setup Notes

Because of how Monkey Wiki formats things, please look at the source code for this page (edit the page) to see all the values / configuration information. There is no way to “escape” the data so it renders correctly.

1. yum install httpd

chkconfig --list
chkconfig httpd on

2. Create a separate configure file

vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/wiki.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName wiki.kb0odu.pvt
    DocumentRoot /var/www/wiki/script/
    <Directory /var/www/wiki/script/>
        Options +Indexes +MultiViews +FollowSymLinks +Includes +ExecCGI

        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
    ErrorLog /var/log/wiki/wiki-error.log
    CustomLog /var/log/wiki/wiki-custom.log "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b"
</VirtualHost>

3. Create directories

mkdir -p /var/www/wiki/script
mkdir /var/log/wiki
service httpd restart

test simple .html in browser : http://wiki.kb0odu.pvt/ OK, testing page displays

4. Create the .htaccess file

Options -Indexes +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
AddHandler cgi-script .py 
DirectoryIndex index.py

<Files ~ "^.htaccess$">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
</Files>

test simple .py in browser : http://wiki.kb0odu.pvt/ OK, testing page displays

5. Download monkeywiki

cd /var/www/wiki/script
wget http://www.waywood.co.uk/cgi-bin/monkeywiki.py
chmod 705 monkeywiki.py

6. config monkeywiki

Following values are being used:

#==CONFIGURATION SECTION=======================================================
PATH_TO_WIKI_TEXT = '/home/wiki/'
PATH_TO_TEMPLATES = '/home/wiki/template/files/'
FRONT_PAGE = 'FrontPage' #required, must be WikiName. (= name of 'top' or 'home' page)
NOFOLLOW_OUTLINKS = 1
NUMBERED_OUTLINKS = 0
REWRITE_MODE = 1
REWRITE_BASE_URL = ' '
EDITABLE = 1
BACKUP_ON = 0 #use the backup feature? (backups are done by email)
SMTP_SERVER = 'localhost'
WIKI_LOGGER = ' ' #email address from which backups are sent
WIKI_MASTER = ' ' #email address to which backups are sent
CREDIT = 'Site powered by <a href="http://www.waywood.co.uk/MonkeyWikiInstallation/">MonkeyWikiInstallation</a>'
#==============================================================================

adding in following lines in .htaccess

(for REWRITEMODE 1, it is not necessary, but nice to have if don't like it, we can set REWRITEMODE 0, and remove the follwing lines from .htaccess)

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule  ^/?$  /monkeywiki.py
    RewriteRule  ^(.+)\.html$  /monkeywiki.py?page=$1  [QSA]

    ExpiresActive on
    ExpiresByType text/html "modified"

7. Create the wiki directory

mkdir /home/wiki

Create a simple page:

    # cat /home/wiki/FrontPage
    This is a test...

And go to: http://wiki.kb0odu.pvt/FrontPage.html

wiki works, URL rewrite works also

8. Use simple authentication to make the wiki private to us

8a) make the password file

   mkdir /home/dba/wikiusers
   cd /home/dba/wikiusers
   htpasswd -c ./dbas dba   ==  to change password, run this command again

8b) update .htaccess

   vi /var/www/wiki/script/.htaccess

   AuthUserFile /home/dba/wikiusers/dbas
   AuthName "This is a protected area"
   AuthGroupFile /dev/null
   AuthType Basic
   Require valid-user

8c) optional: lock down local users for password access

   chmod 701 /home/wiki/wikiusers
   drwx-----x   2 root           root     4096 Jun 25 19:00 wikiusers

8d) Final .htaccess for this entire setup

   [root@db-mgmt01 script]# cat .htaccess
   AuthUserFile /home/wikiusers/users
   AuthName "This is a protected area"
   AuthGroupFile /dev/null
   AuthType Basic
   Require valid-user
   
   RewriteEngine on
   RewriteRule  ^/?$  /monkeywiki.py
   RewriteRule  ^(.+)\.html$  /monkeywiki.py?page=$1  [QSA]
   
   ExpiresActive on
   ExpiresByType text/html "modified"
   
   Options -Indexes +ExecCGI +FollowSymLinks
   AddHandler cgi-script .py
   DirectoryIndex index.py
   
   <Files ~ "^.htaccess$">
       Order allow,deny
       Deny from all
   </Files>

9. other permissions, this is where further changes may(or may not) need:

9a) web script directory /var/www

 [root@db-mgmt01 www]# ls -l
 total 20
 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 16  2014 cgi-bin
 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 25 16:19 error
 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 16  2014 html
 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 25 16:19 icons
 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 25 16:47 wiki

9b) actual wiki pages /home/wiki and /home/wikiusers

 [root@db-mgmt01 dba]# ls -l /home/
 total 24
 ...cut unrelated directories here...
         
 drwx---rwx 2 root           root     4096 Jun 25 18:40 wiki
 drwx-----x 2 root           root     4096 Jun 25 19:00 wikiusers

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