[pmwiki-users] Howto go from PmWiki Demo Main.HomePage to BlogIt in 30 min?

[Tim]

DaveG <pmwiki <at> solidgone.com> writes:

> 
> 
> Tim wrote:
> > I checked out the sample sites, downloaded the
> > zips for pmforms and blogit, and edited the config.php file. 
    Then I saw the part
> > about only supporting a limited set of skins, 
> BlogIt will work with any skin. However, some skins provide some extra 
> visual candy that works with BlogIt -- things like formatting blog 
> attributes like Author, Date,  Tags, etc.
> 
> > so I downloaded GlossyHue and 
> > installed it, and changed the skin in config.php. That turned the Demo
> > Main.HomePage into something not very readable. 
> Not sure which page you're referring to here. In what way was it not 
> readable?

[TIM]
PmWiki Installation, tells me to copy the sample-config.php to 
/local/config.php and point my browser at:
http://localhost/pmwiki/pmwiki.php
this comes up and when I hit the Home Page Link in the upper 
left conner I get:
http://localhost/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage, 
this is the HomePage I am referring to. 


> 
> > I edited the Main.HomePage and
> > added your [[http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/BlogIt |Main Blog Summary
> > Page]] suggestions but I don't see anything. 
> Did you create any entries? What do you have as the main pagelist?
> 
> > My question is How do I go from a fresh PmWiki install to having 
    some basic blog
> > with blogIt in 30 minutes.
> 1] Follow steps 1-4 on the BlogIt page in the "Download and Install"
[TIM]
Yep, I did those.
> 2] Add the markup in the section "Main Blog Summary Page", and change 

[TIM]
I don't know where the above section is? I added it to the HomePage 
(see above) and I didn't see anything.

This may be a part of my problem. What I am doing is adding things to this
default page and its SideBar (ie  HomePage, WikiSandBox, PmWiki, Initial Setup
Tasks ...). I figured it works, I will just add stuff to it and when my stuff
works I will just delete what I don't want. Is there a better approach for 
a rookie such as myself to take?

> your sidebar with the "Blog SideBar" section.

[TIM]
In the cookbook this step is Optional, so I didn't do it
However, on this round I did add the "Blog SideBar" parts to the existing
SideBar via:
http://localhost/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Site.SideBar?action=edit
This got me a bit further. I now see the BlogIt items in the SideBar.

NOTE: I didn't see these after adding your "Main Blog Summary Page" directives
to the existing Main.HomePage, so is it optional or should I not have started
with Main.HomePage?

> 
> Now create a blog entry by clicking the link on the sidebar. You can 
> skip the sidebar step by simply visiting the "New Entry" page: 
> Site.BlogIt-NewEntry

[TIM]
Now when I click the SideBar New Entry I go to:
http://localhost/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Site.BlogIt-NewEntry
But all I see is:
/Site
BlogIt-NewEntry

(:pmform blogit-entry:)



> 
> If you can provide more specific information on what is failing, I can 
> provide a little more guided assistance.
> 
>   ~ ~ Dave
> 
[TIM]
When I say that by changing the skin to glossyhue its not very readable, I 
don't mean I can't read the text. I mean it takes the page(default
Main.HomePage) and puts everything into a single column.

When looking at the zip files for both PmForm and BlogIt I see the directory
structures/layout are slightly different that is:
PmForm Zip is
/pmform
 /cookbook
   pmform.php
 /wikilib.d
   Site.PmFormTemplates
whereas BlogIt is
 /blogit
   blogit.php
   blogit_upgrade.php
   /wikilib.d

my machine is
/var/www/html/pmwiki
 /cookbook
 /docs
 /local
 pmwiki.php
 /pub
 README.txt
 /scripts
 /wiki.d
 /wikilib.d
 /work.d

So Does blogIt go  under /cookbook with a wikilib.d subdir?
If so where does the PmForm unzip to? Your directions indicate it should
go under my ../cookbook
.../pmwiki
     /cookbook
       /pmform
         /cookbook
           pmform.php
         /wikilib.d
           Site.PmFormTemplates
That does not seem right to me, if it is its not consistent with your BlogIt
layout.
      

Thanks for your help, I do appreciate it and I do look forward to getting this
thing going.
Tim