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authorbt <bt@web>2023-11-28 15:11:22 -0500
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@@ -6,6 +6,26 @@ This page documents step-by-step how to properly setup and customize *ikiwiki* o
After you get an account, create a site using their web interface.
-Mine is named ikiwiki-test and I used their DNS instead of getting my own, resulting in http://ikiwiki-test.nfshost.com/. (Not being kept up anymore.)
+Mine is named `ikiwiki-test` and I used their DNS instead of getting my own, resulting in http://ikiwiki-test.nfshost.com/. (Not being kept up anymore.)
They gave me 2 cents free funding for signing up, which is enough to pay for 10 megabytes of bandwidth, or about a thousand typical page views, at their current rates. Plenty to decide if this is right for you. If it is, $5 might be a good starting amount of money to put in your account.
+
+## ssh in and configure the environment
+
+ssh into their server using the ssh hostname and username displayed on the site's information page. Example:
+
+ ssh username_ikiwiki-test@ssh.phx.nearlyfreespeech.net
+
+Now set up `.profile` to run programs from `~/bin`.
+
+ cd $HOME
+ echo "PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin" > .profile
+ . .profile
+
+## Download an unpack ikiwiki
+
+Use `wget` to download the ikiwiki tarball. You can find the `tar` file at the bottom of this page: [packages.debian.org/unstable/source/ikiwiki](https://packages.debian.org/unstable/source/ikiwiki)
+
+Then unpack it:
+
+ tar zxvf ikiwiki*.tar.gz