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年05月06日 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ドル
 45 +
 46 +# the user and the group of the web server.
 47 +USER=www-data
 48 +GROUP=www-data
 49 +
 50 +if [ ! 1ドル ]
 51 +then
 52 + echo "You must specify an instance (relative or absolute path)"
 53 + exit
 54 +fi
 55 +
 56 +if [[ -e 1ドル || -d 1ドル ]]
 57 +then
 58 + echo "1ドル 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年05月06日 16:53:18

Plan

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