Instiki
Hosted Services

Heroku

• Sign up for an account at Heroku.
• Install the Heroku commandline tools
• Then do a

  heroku login -i
  git clone https://github.com/parasew/instiki.git
  cd instiki
  heroku create [APPNAME]
  mv Gemfile Gemfile.orig
  git mv Gemfile.heroku Gemfile
  git mv Gemfile.lock.heroku Gemfile.lock
  git mv public/svg-edit/editor/jgraduate/css/jgraduate.css public/svg-edit/editor/jgraduate/css/jGraduate.css
  git commit -m "Setup for heroku"
  git push heroku master
  heroku config:set RAILS_ENV=production
  heroku run rake db:schema:load
  heroku run rake db:migrate

• Open https://[APPNAME].herokuapp.com/ and configure your Instiki wiki.

Updating just requires a

git pull
git push heroku master

and (if necessitated by a schema update)

heroku run rake db:migrate

If you go this route, you can also follow the instructions for deploying the tex2svg server to Heroku.

Dreamhost

Running Instiki on Dreamhost is quite easy, since Dreamhost supports Ruby-on-Rails via Passenger (mod_rails).

• Create a new fully hosted domain (we’ll call it wiki.domain.com) on Dreamhost.
• Check the “Ruby on Rails Passenger (mod_rails)” box. Under “Specify your web directory” enter “wiki.yourdomain.com/public”

This will create the wiki.domain.com folder in the user’s home directory. Login to your shell account and do the following:

cd wiki.yourdomain.com
wget http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/code/instiki-svn.tar.gz
tar --strip-components 1 -xzf instiki-svn.tar.gz
unset GEM_HOME GEM_PATH
ruby bundle install --path vendor/bundle

Open wiki.yourdomain.com in your browser and set up the wiki.