I was tired of all the complicated wikis that required some kind of application server that I didn't want to even think about, so I wrote a CouchApp wiki. This one uses Markdown.
Follow the instructions below ("Deploying...") to get this code into your CouchDB. This section concerns how to make it so Pages is accessible at the URL-style you prefer.
The easy way is just to run couchapp push as detailed below, and go to the URL it hints you. That should be something like:
http://localhost:5984/pages/_design/pages/_rewrite/page/index
Now you can create your first wiki page. Later on, you can easily follow the next set of instructions to get nicer looking URLs. The nice ones will replace /pages/_design/pages/_rewrite/page/index with just /page/index.
To deploy this you need to point a DNS name at your Couch (or use /etc/hosts), and then configure your CouchDB to have a vhost like:
[vhosts]
mydnsname.com = /pages/_design/pages/_rewrite
You can also add this configuration option with curl:
curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/_config/vhosts/mydnsname.com -d '"/pages/_design/pages/_rewrite"'
This app requires that it be deployed to a database called pages. I'd like to make that more dynamic, but I haven't quite gotten around to it yet (maybe I never will, that's where you come in.)
Once you have it deployed, visit http://mydnsname.com:5984 and it will take it from there.
CouchApps are web applications which can be served directly from CouchDB. This gives them the nice property of replicating just like any other data stored in CouchDB. They are also simple to write as they can use the built-in jQuery libraries and plugins that ship with CouchDB.
More info about CouchApps here.
Assuming you just cloned this app from git, and you have changed into the app directory in your terminal, you want to push it to your CouchDB with the CouchApp command line tool, like this:
couchapp push http://name:password@hostname:5984/pages
If you don't have a password on your CouchDB (admin party) you can do it like this (but it's a bad, idea, set a password):
couchapp push http://hostname:5984/pages
If you get sick of typing the URL, you should setup a .couchapprc file in the root of your directory. Remember not to check this into version control as it will have passwords in it.
The .couchapprc file should have contents like this:
{
"env" : {
"public" : {
"db" : "http://name:[email protected]/pages"
},
"default" : {
"db" : "http://name:pass@localhost:5984/pages"
}
}
}
Now that you have the .couchapprc file set up, you can push your app to the CouchDB as simply as:
couchapp push
This pushes to the default as specified. To push to the public you'd run:
couchapp push public
Of course you can continue to add more deployment targets as you see fit, and give them whatever names you like.
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