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 [[Subversion]] [[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 [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook.
95 Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
97 If you use svn ([[Subversion]]), the `source` directory is assumed to be
98 a working copy, and is automatically updated before building the wiki.
100 In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled pages edited via
101 the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
104 svn is enabled by default.
106 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
108 Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required
109 for using --notify with [[subversion]].
113 Specify the path inside your svn reporistory where the wiki is located.
114 This defaults to trunk; change it if your wiki is at some other location
115 inside the repository.
117 * --anonok, --noanonok
119 If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
121 By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
125 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
130 Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
132 * --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi
134 Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
135 building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
137 * --historyurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
139 Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
140 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
141 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
143 * --adminemail you@yourhost
145 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
147 * --diffurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
149 Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
150 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
151 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
152 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
156 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
157 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
161 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
162 Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
163 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
167 Enables the use of the specified plugin in the wiki. See [[plugins]] for
168 details. Note that plugin names are case sensative.
170 * --disable-plugin name
172 Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
173 to do away with html sanitization.
175 * --discussion, --no-discussion
177 Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
178 every page. The links are enabled by default.
180 * --timeformat format
182 Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
183 strftime(3) function.
187 Be vebose about what is being done.
191 Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
192 system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
193 times of items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new
194 subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
195 with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
199 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
201 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care