= wiki on a shared hosting environment with no Python installed (my experience) = '''Disclaimer''': The following is not the right way to do it (I am not sure about security and the number of files is not optimized), but it just works for me... Hosting situation: * FTP user access * a cgi-enabled directory * no Python installed on the (linux) server * support for user .htaccess files Local situation: * a linux box with: * a working installation of moinmoin * moinmoin sources <> == beginning == You should have at least 2 directories on the server: * {{{cgi-bin}}} - with cgi execution enabled * {{{htdocs}}} Is better to know the absolute paths, so upload the following bash script as {{{bashtest.cgi}}} inside the cgi-bin directory {{{ #!/bin/sh echo "Content-type: text/html" echo echo "" echo "
The absolute path of your cgi-bin directory is:
" pwd echo "" }}} Now point your browser to {{{http://www.yoursite.org/cgi-bin/bashtest.cgi}}}. I got something like {{{/home/something/www.mywikiname.org/cgi-bin/}}}, but we will suppose the absolute paths are simply: * {{{/path/to/cgi-bin}}} * {{{/path/to/htdocs}}} == uploading Python == We need a new directory to hold the python and python-related tree. If you can make a private, not public accessible directory, is better. I can't, so I just made {{{cgi-bin/pytree}}}. We will protect this directory later with a .htaccess file. From my [[http://www.archlinux.org|archlinux]] box, I uploaded: * {{{/usr/lib/libpython2.5.so.1.0}}}, {{{/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 }}}, {{{/usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.8}}} to {{{cgi-bin/pytree/lib/}}} * {{{/usr/lib/python2.5}}} to {{{cgi-bin/pytree/lib/python2.5}}} (with subdirectories, including {{{python2.5/site-packages/MoinMoin}}}) * {{{/usr/bin/python2.5}}} to {{{cgi-bin/pytree/bin/python2.5}}} (chmoded 750) i.e. python and some openssl libs. To save space on the server you can prune the {{{python2.5/site-packages/}}} directory leaving only {{{MoinMoin/}}} and {{{_xmlplus/}}} (PyXML - required for the "Render as docbook" action) directories. == wrapping Python == Upload the following script as {{{cgi-bin/pytree/bin/python}}} {{{ #!/bin/sh export PYTHONHOME=/path/to/cgi-bin/pytree export PYTHONPATH=/path/to/cgi-bin/pytree/lib/python2.5 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/cgi-bin/pytree/lib:/path/to/cgi-bin/pytree/lib/python2.5 /path/to/cgi-bin/pytree/bin/python2.5 $@ }}} To see if python works upload this script as {{{cgi-bin/pytest.cgi}}} {{{ #!/bin/sh echo "Content-type: text/html" echo echo "" echo "
Your python version is:
" /path/to/cgi-bin/pytree/bin/python --version echo "" }}} And open {{{http://www.yoursite.org/cgi-bin/pytest.cgi}}}. == wiki, data and underlay == Follow the instructions in HelpOnInstalling/ApacheOnLinuxFtp. For example: * {{{htdocs/wiki/}}} containing the {{{usr/share/moin/htdocs/}}} tree * {{{htdocs/Moin/data/}}} * {{{htdocs/Moin/underlay/}}} * {{{htdocs/Moin/wikiconfig.py}}} But if you can, put {{{data}}}, {{{underlay}}} and {{{wikiconfig.py}}} somewhere outside the public directories. == configuring and wrapping the MoinMoin CGI == Edit your local copy of {{{moin.cgi}}}: {{{ # Path to MoinMoin package, needed if you installed with --prefix=PREFIX # or if you did not use setup.py. sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/cgi-bin/pytree/lib/python2.5/site-packages') # Path of the directory where wikiconfig.py is located. # YOU NEED TO CHANGE THIS TO MATCH YOUR SETUP. sys.path.insert(0, '/path/to/htdocs/Moin') }}} Rename {{{moin.cgi}}} to {{{moin.py}}} and upload it to {{{cgi-bin/pytree/bin/moin.py}}}. Then upload the following script as {{{cgi-bin/moin.cgi}}} {{{ #!/bin/sh /path/to/cgi-bin/pytree/bin/python /path/to/cgi-bin/pytree/bin/moin.py $@ }}} == .htaccess protection == Upload a {{{.htaccess}}} file with this content: {{{ deny from all }}} inside this directories: * {{{htdocs/Moin}}} * {{{cgi-bin/pytree}}} == nice URLs (and probably better security) == Follow the instructions on [[RobertSchumann/ApacheOnLinuxFTPRootWiki]].