MoinMoin - ArchWiki

# MoinMoin

From ArchWiki

"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 written in Python 2.

## Installation

1. Install moinmoinAUR.
2. Make a new directory for MoinMoin under `/var/lib/moin/` for non static files.
3. Copy the folders `/usr/share/moin/data/`, `/usr/share/moin/underlay/` and the configuration file `/usr/share/moin/config/wikiconfig.py` into `/var/lib/moin/`.
4. Change the owner of `/var/lib/moin/` to the user under which your web server is running (in most cases "http").

You can also run MoinMoin directly from `/usr/share/moin/` if you're ok with non static files in `/usr/`.

## Configuration

### Uwsgi

Copy the file `/usr/share/moin/server/moin.wsgi` to `/var/lib/moin`. In the file, replace the string `'/path/to/wikiconfigdir'` with `'/var/lib/moin'` and uncomment the line.

Install uwsgi-plugin-python2 and create the file `/var/lib/moin/uwsgi.ini` with the following content.

    [uwsgi]
    socket = /run/uwsgi/moin.sock
    chmod-socket = 660
    plugin = python2

    chdir = /var/lib/moin/
    wsgi-file = /var/lib/moin/moin.wsgi

    master
    workers = 3
    max-requests = 200
    harakiri = 60
    die-on-term

Start uwsgi with `uwsgi --ini /var/lib/moin/uwsgi.ini`. Make sure uwsgi has read and write rights for `/var/lib/moin/` and your web server has read and write rights for `/run/uwsgi/moin.sock`. If you're following this guide you should start uwsgi under the "http" user.

#### Nginx

Add the following server block to your `/etc/nginx/nginx.conf`.

    server {
       listen       80;
       server_name  wiki.your.domain;

       location / {
          uwsgi_pass unix:/run/uwsgi/moin.sock;
          include /etc/nginx/uwsgi_params;
       }

       location ~ /moin_static[0-9]+/(.*) {
          alias /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/web/static/htdocs/$1;
       }

       location /favicon.ico {
          alias /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/MoinMoin/web/static/htdocs/favicon.ico;
       }
    }

#### service file for MoinMoin with uwsgi

Create the file `/etc/systemd/system/moinmoin.service` with the following content.

    [Unit]
    Description=Start uwsgi for moinmoin wiki
    After=network.target

    [Service]
    Type=simple
    User=http
    ExecStart=/usr/bin/uwsgi --ini /var/lib/moin/uwsgi.ini

    [Install]
    WantedBy=multi-user.target

## First steps

You should now be able to reach your wiki under wiki.your.domain. For further information on how to configure MoinMoin refer to the MoinMoinWiki.

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- Wiki software