3 ikiwiki - a wiki compiler
7 ikiwiki [options] source destination
9 ikiwiki --setup configfile
13 `ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static html pages for a wiki, from
14 `source` in the [[MarkDown]] language, and writes it out to `destination`.
16 Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean
17 flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
21 These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
25 Refresh the wiki, updating any changed pages. This is the default
26 behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.
30 Force a rebuild of all pages.
34 Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
35 supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying
38 To use ikiwiki as a [[CGI]] program you need to use --wrapper or --setup
39 to generate a wrapper. The wrapper will generally need to run suid 6755 to
40 the user who owns the `source` and `destination` directories.
44 Generate a wrapper binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
45 the other options, using the specified input files and `destination`
46 directory. The filename to use for the wrapper is optional.
48 The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
49 users, as a [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
51 Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
55 In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
56 program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
58 The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate
59 wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file, and rebuild the wiki.
60 If you also pass the --refresh option, ikiwiki will instead just refresh
61 the wiki described in the setup file.
63 [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
67 These options configure the wiki.
71 The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
75 Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
76 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
80 Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory.
81 Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the
82 source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki`.
86 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
90 Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
91 ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
95 Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
97 If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
98 a [[Subversion]] working copy.
100 If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
103 In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled pages edited via
104 the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
107 svn is enabled by default.
109 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
111 Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required
112 for using --notify with [[subversion]].
116 Specify the path inside your svn reporistory where the wiki is located.
117 This defaults to trunk; change it if your wiki is at some other location
118 inside the repository.
120 * --anonok, --noanonok
122 If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
124 By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
128 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
133 Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
135 * --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi
137 Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
138 building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
140 * --historyurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
142 Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
143 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
144 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
146 * --adminemail you@yourhost
148 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
150 * --diffurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
152 Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
153 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
154 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
155 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
159 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
160 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
164 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
165 Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
166 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
170 Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
171 Note that plugin names are case sensative.
173 * --disable-plugin name
175 Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
176 to do away with html sanitization.
178 * --discussion, --no-discussion
180 Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
181 every page. The links are enabled by default.
183 * --timeformat format
185 Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
186 strftime(3) function.
190 Be vebose about what is being done.
194 Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
195 system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
196 times of items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new
197 subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
198 with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
202 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
204 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care