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Support #597

Updated by Daniel Curtis over 9 years ago

The Arch wiki is a huge resource for many of my projects, so having an offline copy for those occasions I am not on the Internet is useful. This is a guide for installing the Arch wiki package and hosting it with nginx inside of a VM. This guide assumes the virtual Arch environment is already setup and at a root shell. 

 h2. Prepare the environment 

 * Ensure everything is up to date: 
 <pre> 
 pacman -Syu 
 </pre> 

 h2. Install Arch Wiki 

 * Install that arch-wiki-docs package: 
 <pre> 
 pacman -S arch-wiki-docs 
 </pre> 

 * Install nginx: 
 <pre> 
 pacman -S nginx 
 </pre> 

 * Edit the nginx config: 
 <pre> 
 nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf 
 </pre> 
 #* And change the default location in the http server block: 
 <pre> 
 location / { 
   root /usr/share/doc/arch-wiki/html/en/; 
   index index.html index.htm; 
   autoindex on; 
 } 
 </pre> 
 *NOTE*: Make to include the autoindex line, since the arch-wiki-docs package does not have a proper index file. 

 * Start and enable nginx at boot: 
 <pre> 
 systemctl start nginx.service 
 systemctl enable nginx.service 
 </pre> 

 h2. Install RFC 

 * Install RFC: 
 <pre> 
 pacman -S rfc 
 </pre> 

 * Edit the nginx config: 
 <pre> 
 nano /etc/nginx/nginx.conf 
 </pre> 
 #* And add a location in the http server block for rfc: 
 <pre> 
 location /rfc { 
   root /usr/share/doc/rfc/txt/; 
   index index.html index.htm; 
   autoindex on; 
 } 
 </pre> 
 *NOTE*: Make to include the autoindex line, since the arch-wiki-docs package does not have a proper index file. 

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