Go Wiki

A simple HTTP server rendering Markdown styled documents on the fly and optionally shows its git history including diffs.

NOTE This is toy project to help me learn Go, so don't run this on anything exposed on the internet.

Installation

$ git clone git@github.com:renstrom/go-wiki.git
$ cd go-wiki
$ sudo make install

Dependencies

You will need to install the following dependencies to be able to build.

• github.com/codegangsta/negroni
• github.com/gorilla/mux
• github.com/ogier/pflag
• github.com/russross/blackfriday
• github.com/shurcooL/go/github_flavored_markdown

Customize

Copy public/css/main.css and public/js/main.js to a folder of your choice, for example /srv/http/gowiki so that you have the followig folder structure:

$ tree /srv/http/gowiki
gowiki
└── public
    ├── css
    │   └── main.css
    └── js
        └── main.js

Change the files to your heart's content, and run the server with:

$ gowiki -s /srv/http/gowiki/public

It's also possible to modify the base template used, copy templates/base.html to /srv/http/gowiki/templates/base.html and start with:

$ gowiki -s /srv/http/gowiki/public \
    -t /srv/http/gowiki/templates/base.html

Usage

Create git repository containing your Markdown formatted wiki pages.

On the server

Create an empty repository.

$ mkdir -p ~/www/wiki && cd $_
$ git init
$ git config core.worktree ~/www/wiki
$ git config receive.denycurrentbranch ignore

Setup a post-receive hook.

$ cat > .git/hooks/post-receive <<EOF
#!/bin/sh
git checkout --force
EOF
$ chmod +x .git/hooks/post-receive

Start the server.

$ gowiki ~/www/wiki

On your local machine

Replace <user> and <host> with credentials for your specific machine.

$ git init
$ git remote add origin \
    ssh://<user>@<host>/home/<user>/www/wiki

Now create some Markdown file and push.

$ git add index.md
$ git commit -m 'Add index page'
$ git push origin master

License

MIT