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 (or others), and writes it out to
17 Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean
18 flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
22 These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
26 Refresh the wiki, updating any changed pages. This is the default
27 behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.
31 Force a rebuild of all pages.
35 Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
36 supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying
39 To use ikiwiki as a [[CGI]] program you need to use --wrapper or --setup
40 to generate a wrapper. The wrapper will generally need to run suid 6755 to
41 the user who owns the `source` and `destination` directories.
45 Generate a wrapper binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
46 the other options, using the specified input files and `destination`
47 directory. The filename to use for the wrapper is optional.
49 The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
50 users, as a [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
52 Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
56 In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
57 program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
59 The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate
60 wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file, and rebuild the wiki.
62 [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
66 If used with --setup --refresh, this makes it also update any configured
71 If the aggregate plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll configured
72 feeds and save new posts to the srcdir.
74 Note that to rebuild previously aggregated posts, use the --rebuild option
75 along with this one. --rebuild will also force feeds to be polled even if
76 they were polled recently.
80 These options configure the wiki. Note that plugins can add additional
81 configuration options of their own.
85 The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
89 Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
90 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
94 Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory.
95 Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the
96 source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki`.
100 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
104 Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
105 ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
107 * --rcs=svn, --no-rcs
109 Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
111 If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
112 a [[Subversion]] working copy.
114 If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
117 In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled pages edited via
118 the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
121 svn is enabled by default.
123 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
125 Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required
126 for using --notify with [[subversion]].
130 Specify the path inside your svn reporistory where the wiki is located.
131 This defaults to trunk; change it if your wiki is at some other location
132 inside the repository.
134 * --anonok, --noanonok
136 If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
138 By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
142 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
147 Set this to the url to an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
148 updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the url
149 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
151 This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
156 Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
158 * --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi
160 Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
161 building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
163 * --historyurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
165 Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
166 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
167 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
169 * --adminemail you@yourhost
171 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
173 * --diffurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
175 Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
176 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
177 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
178 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
182 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
183 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
187 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
188 Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
189 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
193 Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
194 Note that plugin names are case sensative.
196 * --disable-plugin name
198 Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
199 to do away with html sanitization.
201 * --discussion, --no-discussion
203 Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
204 every page. The links are enabled by default.
206 * --timeformat format
208 Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
209 strftime(3) function.
213 Be vebose about what is being done.
215 * --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
217 Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
218 without a web server.
222 Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
223 system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
224 times of items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new
225 subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
226 with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
230 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
232 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care