Installing MoinMoin

Fedora 9

Newer versions of MoinMoin just don't seem to want to run on Fedora 9 and since I have hardware problems with the computer that this wiki is on I'm sticking with Fedora 9 for the time being. That said, I'm running MoinMoin version moin-1.5.8-2.fc8.noarch along with mod_python-3.3.1-7.i386. This combination works.

To install and configure MoinMoin start by installing the .rpm file.

sudo rpm -ivh moin-1.5.8-2.fc8.noarch

Then use yum to install mod_python.

sudo yum install mod_python

Once those are installed, create some folders and copy some files into those folders.

mkdir -p /var/www/moin/mywiki 
cp -R /usr/share/moin/data /var/www/moin/mywiki
cp -R /usr/share/moin/underlay /var/www/moin/mywiki
cp -R /usr/share/moin/config/wikiconfig.py /var/www/moin/mywiki

Change some permissions ...

chown -R apache:apache /var/www/moin   
chmod -R ug+rwX /var/www/moin    
chmod -R o-rwx /var/www/moin

Create a file, moin.conf ...

sudo gedit /etc/httpd/conf.d/moin.conf

Add some data to the file ...

Alias /wiki/ "/usr/share/moin/htdocs/"
<Location /mywiki>
SetHandler python-program
# Add the path of your wiki directory
PythonPath "['/var/www/moin/mywiki'] + sys.path"
PythonHandler MoinMoin.request::RequestModPy.run
# Location value must match the Apache Location value!
PythonOption Location /mywiki
</Location>

Edit / Configure wikiconfig.py ...

sudo gedit /var/www/moin/mywiki/wikiconfig.py

There are only a few changes that need to be made. Change the name of the site to whatever you like.

# Site name, used by default for wiki name-logo [Unicode]
sitename = u'The title of my new Wiki'

Change the data_dir to reflect an actual location on the computer.

# Where your mutable wiki pages are. You want to make regular
# backups of this directory.
data_dir = '/var/www/moin/mywiki/data/'

Change the data_underlay setting to reflect an actual location on the computer.

# Where read-only system and help page are. You might want to share
# this directory between several wikis. When you update MoinMoin,
# you can safely replace the underlay directory with a new one. This
# directory is part of MoinMoin distribution, you don't have to
# backup it.
data_underlay_dir = '/var/www/moin/mywiki/underlay/'

Make a few changes to the apache configuration

sudo vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Change the ServerName to something that exists. In my case this is http://www.johnson.homelinux.net:80.
Change the DocumentRoot to "/var/www/moin/"
Change the <Directory> to <Directory "/var/www/moin">

Restart httpd

sudo /sbin/service httpd start

Browse to http://localhost/mywiki.

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