Description

http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/HelpOnInstalling/WikiInstanceCreation, createinstance.sh tries:

chown www-data.www-data

also, the path of shared might be found out differently ... given createinstance will be placed in bin.

Workaround

change the script yourself.

Solution

change two things:

# path of MoinMoin shared files
#SHARE=/usr/local/share/moin
pythonexe=`which python`
SHARE=`dirname $pythonexe`/../share/moin

#chown -R $USER.$GROUP $INSTANCE
chown -R $USER:$GROUP $INSTANCE

• This differs on particular platforms - what does the POSIX standard say?
  • info coreutils chown:

    •     Some older scripts may still use `.' in place of the `:' separator.
      POSIX 1003.1-2001 (*note Standards conformance::) does not require
      support for that, but for backward compatibility GNU `chown' supports
      `.' so long as no ambiguity results.  New scripts should avoid the use
      of `.' because it is not portable, and because it has undesirable
      results if the entire OWNER`.'GROUP happens to identify a user whose
      name contains `.'.

Patch

I have made patch which changes some things and also puts the createinstance additionally in contrib/createinstance with a README.txt. I think that should made it easier to be used. -- ThiloPfennig 2007-05-06 16:38:01

•    1 diff -r fa6e150cec23 contrib/createinstance/README.txt
     2 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
     3 +++ b/contrib/createinstance/README.txt	Sun May 06 18:24:13 2007 +0200
     4 @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
     5 +README Wiki Instance Creation
     6 +
     7 +After you have downloaded and installed MoinMoin, you will want to "have a wiki".
     8 +You can use the contributed "createinstance.sh" bash script to install the instance.
     9 +
    10 +*How to use*
    11 +
    12 + 1. Copy the script to your home directory (or $HOME/bin)
    13 +
    14 + 2. Edit the script
    15 +
    16 +You should define the following variables inside the script:
    17 +
    18 +The path of MoinMoin shared files:
    19 +SHARE=/usr/share/moin
    20 +
    21 +Define the user and the group of the web server:
    22 +USER=www-data
    23 +GROUP=www-data
    24 +
    25 + 3. Make it executable: 
    26 +    "chmod u+x createinstance.sh"
    27 +
    28 + 4. Think about where you want the instance to be located. Like:
    29 +    "/usr/local/share/moin-instance"
    30 +
    31 + 4. Run the script with superuser rights like:
    32 +    "sudo ./createinstance.sh /usr/local/share/moin-instance"
    33 + 
    34 diff -r fa6e150cec23 contrib/createinstance/createinstance.sh
    35 --- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
    36 +++ b/contrib/createinstance/createinstance.sh	Sun May 06 18:40:08 2007 +0200
    37 @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
    38 +#!/bin/bash
    39 +
    40 +# path of MoinMoin shared files
    41 +SHARE=/usr/share/moin
    42 +
    43 +# path to target instance location
    44 +INSTANCE=$1
    45 +
    46 +# the user and the group of the web server.
    47 +USER=www-data
    48 +GROUP=www-data
    49 +
    50 +if [ ! $1 ]
    51 +then
    52 +  echo "You must specify an instance (relative or absolute path)"
    53 +  exit
    54 +fi
    55 +
    56 +if [[ -e $1 || -d $1 ]]
    57 +then
    58 +  echo "$1 already exists"
    59 +  exit
    60 +fi
    61 +
    62 +mkdir -p $INSTANCE
    63 +cp -R $SHARE/data $INSTANCE
    64 +cp -R $SHARE/underlay $INSTANCE
    65 +cp $SHARE/config/wikiconfig.py $INSTANCE
    66 +
    67 +chown -R $USER:$GROUP $INSTANCE
    68 +chmod -R ug+rwX $INSTANCE
    69 +chmod -R o-rwx $INSTANCE
    70 +
    71 +if [ $? ]
    72 +then
    73 +  echo "Done."
    74 +fi
    75 +
    76 
  

  instance.patch

Discussion

This can be fixed by reading EditingOnMoinMaster.

I think what would really be cool is if this would be a python script that also could use internals of moin. Maybe also the moin binary could be extended to support such action in future? -- ThiloPfennig 2007-05-06 16:53:18

Plan

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