Stoor provides a Gollum (wiki) server with a few other bells and whistles, such as authentication against GitHub OAuth. ## Rationale In our environment, the contents of our wiki are confidential and should not be pushed up to GitHub. We keep the wiki on a local machine (behind a firewall), and put the wiki contents into a directory that is sync'd to box.com. (box.com is useful for confidential data, because they will sign a HIPAA BAA.) Meanwhile, we'd like to authorize access by some means: we like GitHub Oauth, so that we can constrain access by GitHub Organization Team membership. ## Requirements * Ruby 1.9.2 or greater. Unfortunately, Stoor will no longer work on Ruby 1.8.7, because `gollum-lib` now wants Nokogiri 1.6.0 ([see?](https://github.com/gollum/gollum-lib/commit/eeb0a4a036001c7621d173e7152b91ed02b21ed0#commitcomment-4170065)), and 1.8.7 isn't supported. That's too bad, because it was nice that this would work on the older system Ruby on a Mac. * Persistent access to the filesystem (i.e., won't work on Heroku). * An operating system other than Windows (because Gollum doesn't work on Windows, because [grit doesn't work on Windows . . .](https://github.com/gollum/gollum#system-requirements)). ## Setup gem install stoor (On occasion I have had to `rbenv rehash`.) ## Usage examples (Relax, the client id and secret below are fake.) ### The 'stoor' command To get started, change directory to your git repo where your wiki content lives, and type the `stoor` command: cd wiki stoor This will run your gollum wiki on port 3000, though it will decorate the footer with a message saying who the committer is. When not authenticating against GitHub, the default options for the wiki repo is used (i.e., the values for the GitHub commit will be what you see in `git config -l`). The `stoor` command is a thin wrapper around the `thin` web server, and takes all `thin` options (`-p `, etc.). If you don't have a repo yet for your wiki . . . mkdir mywiki cd mywiki git init . stoor ### Configuration via environment variables Stoor is configured via environment variables of the form `_`. `` is taken from the name of the directory in which the application resides. If you clone the app or use it as a Gem, it will be: `STOOR` If you clone into a directory with a different name (e.g., `stoor2`) it will be: `STOOR2`. This facilitates running two instances of Stoor in the same process (see below regarding Apache). ### Specify the Wiki repo location STOOR_WIKI_PATH=/Users/admin/wiki stoor The `STOOR_WIKI_PATH` environment variable provides for locating the wiki contents in a differet repo from the Stoor application. It is strongly advised that you do this so that you can keep your wiki code and wiki content separate. ### GitHub authorization Require authorization via GitHub to the GitHub application with the given client id and secret STOOR_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=780ec06a331b4f61a345 STOOR_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=f1e5439aff166c34f707747120acbf66ef233fc2 stoor Access to the wiki will first run through GitHub OAuth against the app specified by the id and secret. For information on setting up an application in GitHub and obtaining its id and secret, see . If you are running Stoor on localhost with the `stoor` command, the typical settings would be:
Application Name Main URL Callback URL
YourAppName http://localhost:3000 http://localhost:3000/auth/github/callback
**NOTE:** No matter what your domain and port, the callback path must be `/auth/github/callback`. **NOTE:** See also `STOOR_DOMAIN` below: The domain specified for the cookie should match the domain in your GitHub application settings. ### Prefer a certain email domain If there is more than one email associated with the GitHub user, prefer the one from the specified domain (otherwise the first email will be used) STOOR_GITHUB_EMAIL_DOMAIN=7fff.com STOOR_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=780ec06a331b4f61a345 STOOR_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=f1e5439aff166c34f707747120acbf66ef233fc2 stoor ### Require GitHub team STOOR_GITHUB_TEAM_ID=11155 STOOR_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=780ec06a331b4f61a345 STOOR_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=f1e5439aff166c34f707747120acbf66ef233fc2 stoor If the user is not a member of the specified team, they aren't allowed access. ### Specify the domain (this is to ensure that cookies are set for the correct domain) STOOR_DOMAIN=wiki.local # default: localhost ### Specify the cookie secret STOOR_SECRET="honi soit qui mal y pense" # default: stoor ### Specify the cookie timeout STOOR_EXPIRE_AFTER=600 # In seconds; default: 3600 ### Wide display STOOR_WIDE=y # Main wiki content will take 90% of browser width; widens tables as well ### Read-only STOOR_READONLY=y # Create, New, Delete buttons and links hidden; # /create/*, /delete/*, POST, and PUT requests redirected to "sorry" page ## How I run it I like having my own personal wiki. Since Apache is ubiquitous on Macs, I run the Wiki with configuration in `/etc/apache2/httpd.conf`, and some Ruby provided by rbenv, and Passenger. I create an extra name for 127.0.0.1 in `/etc/hosts` such as `wiki.local`. Then: gem install passenger passenger-install-apache2-module Then in `/etc/apache2/httpd.conf`: LoadModule passenger_module /opt/boxen/rbenv/versions/1.9.2-p320/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-4.0.19/buildout/apache2/mod_passenger.so PassengerRoot /opt/boxen/rbenv/versions/1.9.2-p320/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/passenger-4.0.19 PassengerDefaultRuby /opt/boxen/rbenv/versions/1.9.2-p320/bin/ruby NameVirtualHost *:80 SetEnv STOOR_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID 780ec06a331b4f61a345 SetEnv STOOR_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET f1e5439aff166c34f707747120acbf66ef233fc2 SetEnv STOOR_GITHUB_EMAIL_DOMAIN 7fff.com SetEnv STOOR_DOMAIN wiki.local SetEnv STOOR_EXPIRE_AFTER 60 SetEnv STOOR_WIKI_PATH /Users/jgn/Dropbox/wiki ServerName wiki.local DocumentRoot "/opt/boxen/rbenv/versions/1.9.2-p320/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/stoor-0.1.4/public" Allow from all Options -MultiViews and finally: sudo apachectl -k restart Now browse your wiki at ### Running two instances of Stoor in the same Apache You may want to run two instances of Stoor in the same Apache. For instance, they might both use the same Wiki path, but one is set to be read-only, while the other allows edits. To do this, don't set the DocumentRoot to the Gem directory. Intead, clone the repo twice, once into a directory such as `stoor1` the other into `stoor2`. Then configure the two VirtualHosts with environment variables based on each directory. Something like this: SetEnv STOOR1_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID 780ec06a331b4f61a345 SetEnv STOOR1_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET f1e5439aff166c34f707747120acbf66ef233fc2 SetEnv STOOR1_GITHUB_EMAIL_DOMAIN 7fff.com SetEnv STOOR1_DOMAIN wiki.local SetEnv STOOR1_EXPIRE_AFTER 60 SetEnv STOOR1_WIKI_PATH /Users/jgn/Dropbox/wiki ServerName wiki.local DocumentRoot "/Users/jgn/src/stoor1" Allow from all Options -MultiViews SetEnv STOOR2_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID 780ec06a331b4f61a345 SetEnv STOOR2_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET f1e5439aff166c34f707747120acbf66ef233fc2 SetEnv STOOR2_GITHUB_EMAIL_DOMAIN 7fff.com SetEnv STOOR2_DOMAIN wiki.local SetEnv STOOR2_EXPIRE_AFTER 60 SetEnv STOOR2_WIKI_PATH /Users/jgn/Dropbox/wiki SetEnv STOOR2_READONLY y ServerName wiki-readonly.local DocumentRoot "/Users/jgn/src/stoor2" Allow from all Options -MultiViews ## Links in the Wiki A bit of advice: Use the MediaWiki format for links internal to your wiki. This style is recommended by GitHub (see ). For example, if you have a secondary page called `foo.md`, and want a link that displays "This is my foo page", write your page link like this ``` [[This is my foo page|foo]] ``` Notice that the Gollum docs say "The page file may exist anywhere in the directory structure of the repository. Gollum does a breadth first search and uses the first match that it finds" -- So keep your page names unique. If you want to use relative links of the form `[Display text](wiki/other)`, don't. The wikis on GitHub do some wrangling with the base path that are not compatible with local wikis managed by Gollum. If you peruse the Gollum documentation at , you will see that they don't describe the Markdown format at all. (Within a Rack Builder, even if you set the Gollum `base_path` and wrap Gollum in a `map` with the same `base_path` you will find that the displayed paths prefix URLs with an extra `base_path`.) ## Things left out * No support for changing the "base path." * No support for changing Gollum options - all the default options are taken ## Testing Ensure that you clone to a directory called `stoor`, because the ENV variables adopt the name of the home directory. To run the specs, create an application per "GitHub Authorization" above, and take note of the client id and client secret. Then set up Stoor so that you are running with GitHub authorization. Authorize. Now run the specs like so: STOOR_GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=780ec06a331b4f61a345 STOOR_GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=f1e5439aff166c34f707747120acbf66ef233fc2 bundle exec rspec