Instiki
First Steps

Once you have started Instiki and connected your browser to http://localhost:2500, the first thing to do is:

1. Set up the Wiki

Instiki will present you with a form, asking about some details, such as:

• Wiki name: this will be displayed in the title of all Wiki pages.
  E.g., the title of Instiki.org is “Instiki”, and you can see that the title of this page (that is the text displayed at the top of the browser window) is “First Steps in Instiki”.

• Wiki address: this will become the first word in your wiki URL path.
  For example, if you enter “mywiki” there, the URL of a HomePage will be something like http://localhost:2500/mywiki/show/HomePage
  Note: Do not leave this field blank.

• System password: magic word that you (or anybody else) will need to know in order to change Instiki system settings in future.
  Note: in the current version of Instiki admin password is difficult to change (there is no web interface for it). If security is of any concern, please select a reasonably difficult system password from the beginning, and consider restricting access to admin interface pages in your web server configuration.

2. Create HomePage

After creating a web, Instiki will bring up an edit page for that web’s home page. This page is just the same as all the other pages within the wiki except that it comes up first.

3. Create other pages

There are a few ways to create new pages, but the best way is to add an empty link to an existing wiki page (for example, the home page), using either Wiki Words or the double bracket syntax. Submit, and you will see a question mark link to the side of what should be the link. Hitting this question mark will take you to an edit dialogue for the new page, and once created any links to that page will then be active.

Another way is to type in a new URL to the browser window – if the page does not exist it will lead to a creation page. Eg. localhost:2500/wiki/new/third+page

4. Navigate the Wiki

You can navigate an Instiki web just as you would any other web page, but you can also search all the pages in the web using plain text or regular expressions by putting your search string into the entry on top of any page.

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