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How to install Instiki

• Get the latest source
  

  svn co http://svn.instiki.org/instiki/trunk instiki
  

• Update the ruby paths
  

  cd instiki 
  rails .
  

  • say yes only to the files in /public and /script directory
• Add a new database in cpanel
• Update your config/database.yml file to point to this new database, make sure you setup the production database
• Now update the database
  

   RAILS_ENV=production rake migrate
  

• Switch to production mode by editing the config/enviornment.rb file and add the follwing line at the top of this file:
  

  ENV['RAILS_ENV'] ||= 'production'
  

• Remove the index.html file the rails command created
  

  cd public
  rm index.html
  

• Create a new subdomain in cpanel
• Now, remove the directory cpanel created and add a link
  

  cd ~/public_html
  rm -rfd subdomainname
  ln -s ~/instiki/public ~/public_html/subdomainname
  

Instiki should now be running on your subdomain.