How to Install/Talk

so if i install this darwin thing, i'll have all the necessary things? or i'll then have to individually install the necessary things?

you use it to install the programs — you type port install <nameofpackage> and i think you find package names by typing port search <word>. so, if the package for the python imaging library was called python-imaging, you'd type port install python-imaging. i don't have a mac right now otherwise i'd check for sure, but i think it is on their website. it's just a quick and easy way to get open-source software.

so i install xcode tools? i thought i already had that. i'm so confused. i'm at the darwinports link.....

Please integrate into the main instructions:

Go into my apache document root:

cd /var/www

Get Sycamore:

svn co http://svn.devjavu.com/sycamore/trunk sycamore_base

Open the httpd.conf file. Add the line

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi

and then

<Directory "/var/www/sycamore_base/share/web">
  Options +ExecCGI
</Directory>

Restart apache:

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

cd /var/www/sycamore/base

Open sycamore_config.py. Change:

• wiki_name to the name of your wiki — one word, lower case
  

• sitename to the full name of your wiki
  

• web_dir to /sycamore_base/share/web
  

• relative_dir to sycamore_base/share/web/index.cgi

Do DB creation stuff.

Please integrate into the main instructions:

Follow Method 1. Then set your apache Document Root to be /var/www/sycamore_base/share/web.

Open sycamore_config.py. Change:

• web_dir to '' (empty)
  

• relative_dir to '' (empty)

Add the following to your apache config:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^wiki/(.*)$ /var/www/sycamore_base/share/web/wiki/$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(index.cgi)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.cgi/$1 [L]

Now 'index.cgi' will be gone from all URLs. The next step on your quest to perfection is using something "faster" than CGI.