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 [[plugins/aggregate]] plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll
72 configured 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 Print ikiwiki version number.
84 These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
85 configuration options of their own.
89 The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
93 Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
94 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as
95 configured at build time.
99 Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory.
100 Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the
101 source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki` or another
102 location as configured at build time.
106 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
110 Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
111 ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
113 * --rcs=svn, --no-rcs
115 Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
117 If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
118 a [[Subversion]] working copy.
120 If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
123 If you use tla, the `source` directory is assumed to be a tla import.
125 If you use mercurial, the `source` directory is assumed to be the
126 [[mercurial]] repository.
128 In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled pages edited via
129 the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
132 svn is enabled by default.
134 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
136 Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required
137 for using --notify with [[subversion]].
141 Specify the path inside your svn reporistory where the wiki is located.
142 This defaults to trunk; change it if your wiki is at some other location
143 inside the repository.
145 * --anonok, --noanonok
147 If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
149 By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
153 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
158 Set this to the url to an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
159 updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the url
160 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
162 This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
167 Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
169 * --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi
171 Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
172 building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
176 Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
177 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
178 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
180 * --adminemail you@yourhost
182 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
186 Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
187 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
188 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
189 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
193 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
194 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
198 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
199 Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
200 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
204 Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
205 Note that plugin names are case sensative.
207 * --disable-plugin name
209 Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
210 to do away with html sanitization.
212 * --discussion, --no-discussion
214 Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
215 every page. The links are enabled by default.
217 * --timeformat format
219 Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
220 strftime(3) function.
222 * --verbose, --no-verbose
224 Be vebose about what is being done.
226 * --syslog, --no-syslog
230 * --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
232 Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
233 without a web server.
237 Only send cookies over an SSL connection. This should prevent them being
238 intercepted. If you enable this option then you must run at least the
239 CGI portion of ikiwiki over SSL.
243 Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
244 system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
245 times of items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new
246 subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
247 with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
251 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
253 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care