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IFCA MoinMoin 1.9.3 Appliance

Ubuntu Server 12.04 JeOS with MoinMoin 1.9.3 installed

Details

Name

IFCA MoinMoin 1.9.3 Appliance

Created
2012-10-16T13:27:04Z
Updated
2012-10-16T13:28:59Z
Status
ACTIVE
Supported by
IFCA
ID
9b8aaa86-5a40-4deb-89f9-793fb153f74a
Minimum Disk
0
Minimum Ram
0
Architecture
x86_64

Description

This is an Ubuntu Server 12.04 with the MoinMoin 1.9.3 wiki engine installed.

MoinMoin is an advanced, easy to use and extensible WikiEngine with a large community of users. Said in a few words, it is about collaboration on easily editable web pages. MoinMoin is Free Software licensed under the GPL

This appliance includes:

  • MoinMoin configurations:

    • Installed from package management.

    • Wiki data maintained in /usr/share/moin/data/.

    • Enabled FCKeditor by default (ease of use).
    • Use Apache WSGI (performance).
  • Postfix MTA (bound to localhost) to allow sending of email (e.g., password recovery).

Usage

Boot the machine, and browse to its IP address to configure it. Create a user named WikiAdmin to administer your new wiki.

[Optional] Using a volume for storing wiki contents

Once the VM is deleted, the wiki contents will be lost if you do not copy them to a safe place. A way to avoid this and reuse the wiki contents after the VM is deleted is to use volumes for store these data. The volumes are persistent and can be attached to a running VM as a block device.

The manual contains more information on volumes, here we describe how to use this feature for storing the MoinMoin data:

  1. When you create the VM, be sure to specify a keypair to be able to login into the machine.

  2. Create a new volume and attach it the running VM, do also create the filesystem once attached.

  3. Mount the volume at /srv (assuming /dev/xvdc is the attachment device): 

sudo mount -t ext4 -o sync /dev/xvdc /srv
  1. Stop the apache webserver 

$ sudo service apache2 stop
 * Stopping web server apache2                                                                        
 ... waiting .                                                                                [ OK ]
  1. Copy /usr/share/moin/data/ to /srv 

$ sudo cp -a /usr/share/moin/data/ /srv/moin

  1. Edit /etc/moin/mywiki.py, change data_dir = '/usr/share/moin/data/' to data_dir = '/srv/moin'

  2. Restart apache: 

$ sudo service apache2 start
 * Starting web server apache2                                                                [ OK ]

Before deleting the VM, be sure to umount the volume (sudo umount /srv). Once deleted, if you want to reuse the volume with the wiki contents in another VM you will need to perform these actions:

  1. When you create the VM, be sure to specify a keypair to be able to login into the machine.

  2. Attach the volume you have created and contains the data to the VM.

  3. Mount the volume at /srv (sudo mount -t ext4 -o sync /dev/xvdc /srv)

  4. Stop apache (sudo service apache2 stop)

  5. Edit /etc/moin/mywiki.py, change data_dir = '/usr/share/moin/data/' to data_dir = '/srv/moin'

  6. Restart apache (sudo service apache2 start)

The new VM will now serve the wiki contents existing in the volume.

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