Peer Pressure

TiddlyWeb for the Impatient

Update: These instructions have been updated to reflect that the wiki functionality of TiddlyWeb has been migrated into a plugin (called tiddlywebwiki). See TiddlyWebWiki for updates.

When TiddlyWeb first started being usable as an actual server, rather than a codebase against which to run some tests, it felt rather complex, maybe even onerous, to use. I hope that’s no longer true. Here’s TiddlyWeb for the impatient:

1. sudo easy_install -U tiddlywebwiki
2. twanager --load tiddlywebwiki.config instance myname
3. cd myname
4. twanager server
5. open http://0.0.0.0:8080/recipes/default/tiddlers.wiki or xdg-open http://0.0.0.0:8080/recipes/default/tiddlers.wiki or if you don’t have one of those commands open your browser to that URL.

In your browser you will now see a TiddlyWiki hosted on a TidldyWebWiki to which your edits and new additions will be saved.

For this to work you need a fairly modern system with Python installed, Python’s setuptools installed and generally speaking a friendly environment for doing stuff. In my experience that’s modern OS X and Ubuntu. YMMV.

Hosting a TidldyWiki usable by multiple users is but one small piece of what TiddlyWeb can do, but the above opens the door. For more info see http://tiddlyweb.peermore.com/

Update: Some people have reported that the second step fails reporting an ImportError. When this happens it means the first step did not fully install all the tiddlyweb dependencies, and you’ll have to install them separately using easy_install. The ImportError will report what is missing.