1 Basic Installation
Before you can integrate MoinMoin into your web environment,
you have to do the basic installation using the standard Python
distutils mechanism. We'll explain the usual steps you need to
take to do this. For more details on the distutils installation
process, consult the ![[WWW]](/img/moin-www.gif)
Installing Python Modules document of your
Python manual.
NOTE: You will need the Python Development package installed on UNIX systems for distutils to work correctly.
The first step is to unpack the distribution archive, which you
have done already when you loaded this instructions from your disk.
If you read this on the web, the distribution comes in a versioned
ZIP or TAR archive, which you can unpack in the usual ways, into a
temporary directory (/tmp on UNIX, C:\TEMP on Windows). The
distribution archive will always unpack into a directory named
moin-<version>, for example moin-0.11.
After unpacking, to install into a specific directory (C:\moin
in our example), call setup.py after changing your current
directory to the distribution directory. The following commands
can be used to complete theses steps:
unzip moin-0.11.zip
cd moin-0.11
python setup.py --quiet install --prefix=C:\moin
This creates the following directories in "C:\moin" (note
that on a UNIX system, the directory layout will be slightly
different):
MoinMoin
MoinMoin/action
MoinMoin/formatter
MoinMoin/i18n
MoinMoin/macro
MoinMoin/parser
MoinMoin/py15
MoinMoin/scripts
MoinMoin/support
MoinMoin/twisted
MoinMoin/webapi
Scripts
share
share/moin
share/moin/cgi-bin
share/moin/data
share/moin/data/backup
share/moin/data/cache
share/moin/data/pages
share/moin/data/plugin
share/moin/data/plugin/action
share/moin/data/plugin/macro
share/moin/data/text
share/moin/data/user
share/moin/htdocs
share/moin/htdocs/css
share/moin/htdocs/img
You will likely see the following warning:
warning: install: modules installed to 'C:\moin\', which
is not in Python's module search path (sys.path) -- you'll
have to change the search path yourself
This means exactly what it says, you need to add your install
directory to the search path of Python. There are several ways
to do this:
- Environment variable
- Change PYTHONPATH in a way that is
persistent (/etc/profile.d on UNIX, AUTOEXEC.BAT on W9x,
the Properties item in the context menu of My Computer on NT4 and
W2K)
- Apache "httpd.conf"
- Use the SetEnv directive to set
PYTHONPATH to a suitable value, for example:
SetEnv PYTHONPATH "C:\moin"
- "moin.cgi"
- Directly add your installation directory to
the CGI driver script, like this:
import sys
sys.path.append('C:/moin')
If you use the following default installation command, MoinMoin
will be installed to the Python directory:
python setup.py --quiet install
You won't need to change your PYTHONPATH then, but depending
on your system environment you might not be able to use that
command, especially when you are not the root user on a UNIX
system. If you don't know where your Python directory is, this
command will tell you:
python -c "import sys; print sys.prefix"
The directory structure we showed above will then be created
in that directory. If you're interested in the exact list of
files that are installed, use the --record option of distutils.
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