HowToManageThisSite

This site is managed using ikiwiki.

File locations

/usr/local/www/ikiwiki-repo.git/ : The bare Git repo for the site. (clone from here to work on your own copy to commit back)
/usr/local/www/ikiwiki-srcdir/ : The checked out work for site generation. Ikiwiki uses this; shouldn't need to be touched.
/usr/local/www/www.dragonflybsd.org/ Static output from ikiwiki. This is the final output from site generation. Any changes will be overwritten on the next generation of the site.
Source is publically browsable at gitweb.dragonflybsd.org.
Configuration file is at /usr/local/etc/ikiwiki.setup.

Making changes

Edit pages directly.
Page layouts are at /usr/local/etc/ikiwiki-templates/ - page.tmpl is probably the one you want. These are just the overrides from /usr/local/share/ikiwiki/templates. This affects all pages; the sidebar menu is here.
Stylesheet changes go in /usr/local/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/local.css.
Add images by committing them to the repo.
After modifying any of the templates or stylesheet info, regenerate the site with ikiwiki --setup /usr/local/etc/ikiwiki.setup.

Upgrading

Back up /usr/local/www/ikiwiki-srcdir/, /usr/local/www/ikiwiki-repo.git/, /usr/local/share/ikiwiki/templates/, and /usr/local/etc/ikiwiki.setup, just to be safe.
Save favicon.ico, local.css, and style.css in /usr/local/share/ikiwiki/basewiki/ separately. These will need to be restored after upgrade, as they're modified from what comes with the ikiwiki package. Hint: use /root/adm/ikiwiki-backup.
Upgrade using dports.
Run any ikiwiki transition commands mentioned in the release notes at http://ikiwiki.info/news/ .
Check for any new plugins that could be enabled; place them in the ikiwiki.setup file.
textproc/p5-Search-Xapian and textproc/xapian-omega is needed for the search engine, and the path to the omega CGI listed in ikiwiki.setup, though this should never be needed for a separate install unless rebuilding everything.

Ikiwiki was patched to make sure it would commit changes to git even when no commit message was added. In /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.16/IkiWiki/Plugin/git.pm, change this around line 545:

# Force git to allow empty commit messages.
# (If this version of git supports it.)
my ($version)=`git --version` =~ /git version (.*)/;
if ($version ge "1.5.4") {
    push @opts, '--cleanup=verbatim';
}
else {
    $params{message}.=".";
}

$params{message}.="No commit message specified.";

Feeds

The sidebar on the main page displays recent headlines from the DragonFly BSD Digest.
Pages are saved to /digest/ and displayed using an 'inline' statement. [[!inline pages="internal(digest/*)" feeds="no" template="digestitem"]]
The sidebar on the main page also shows Jenkins results.
Pages are saved to /ci/ and displayed using an 'inline' statement. [[!inline pages="internal(ci/*)" feeds="no" template="digestitem"]]
The actual feed information is gathered using an aggregate command, kept here so that instructions and actions are in the same place.
Don't remove the aggregate command from this page unless you have someplace else for it.

Here's the Digest command and output: DragonFly Digest Feed: last checked Tue Sep 16 04:00:23 2025 (5282 posts)

Here's the Jenkins command and output: Jenkins Feed: last checked Tue Sep 16 04:00:33 2025 (412 posts)

For more information

This site contains ikiwiki documentation under /ikiwiki.
For document editing, visit How to edit pages on dragonflybsd.org