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 operates 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 [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
61 The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate
62 wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file, and rebuild the wiki.
63 If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with
68 If used with --setup --refresh, this makes it also update any configured
73 If the [[plugins/aggregate]] plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll
74 configured feeds and save new posts to the srcdir.
76 Note that to rebuild previously aggregated posts, use the --rebuild option
77 along with this one. --rebuild will also force feeds to be polled even if
78 they were polled recently.
82 Renders a single file, outputting the resulting html. Does not save state,
83 so this cannot be used for building whole wikis, but it is useful for
84 previewing an edited file at the command line. Generally used in conjunction
85 with --setup to load in a wiki's setup:
87 ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki.setup --render foo.mdwn
91 Run in post-commit mode, the same as if called by a [[post-commit]] hook.
92 This is probably only useful when using ikiwiki with a web server on one host
93 and a repository on another, to allow the repository's real post-commit
94 hook to ssh to the web server host and manually run ikiwiki to update
99 Print ikiwiki's version number.
103 These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
104 configuration options of their own.
108 The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
112 Specify the directory that the page [[templates|wikitemplates]] are stored in.
113 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as configured at
114 build time. If the templatedir is changed, missing templates will still
115 be searched for in the default location as a fallback.
119 Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory.
120 Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the
121 source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki` or another
122 location as configured at build time.
126 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
128 * --notify, --no-notify
130 Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
131 ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
133 * --rcs=svn, --no-rcs
135 Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
137 If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
138 a [[Subversion]] working copy.
140 If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
143 If you use tla, the `source` directory is assumed to be a tla import.
145 If you use mercurial, the `source` directory is assumed to be the
146 [[mercurial]] repository.
148 In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled, pages edited via
149 the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
152 No revision control is enabled by default.
154 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
156 Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required
157 for using --notify with [[Subversion]].
161 Specify the path inside your svn repository where the wiki is located.
162 This defaults to `trunk`; change it if your wiki is at some other path
163 inside the repository. If your wiki is rooted at the top of the repository,
168 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate RSS feeds for pages that inline
173 If atom is set, ikiwiki will generate Atom feeds for pages that inline
178 Set this to the URL of an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
179 updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the URL
180 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
182 This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
187 Specifies the URL to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
189 * --cgiurl http://example.org/ikiwiki.cgi
191 Specifies the URL to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
192 building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
196 Specifies the URL to link to for page history browsing. In the URL,
197 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
200 * --adminemail you@example.org
202 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
206 Specifies the URL to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the URL,
207 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
208 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
213 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
214 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
218 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
219 Currently allows locking of any page; other powers may be added later.
220 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
224 Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
225 Note that plugin names are case sensitive.
227 * --disable-plugin name
229 Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
230 to do away with HTML sanitization.
234 Makes ikiwiki look in the specified directory first, before the regular perl
235 library directories. For example, if you set libdir to "/home/you/.ikiwiki/",
236 you can install plugins in "/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/".
238 * --discussion, --no-discussion
240 Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
241 every page. The links are enabled by default.
245 Controls how many backlinks should be displayed at the bottom of a page.
246 Excess backlinks will be hidden in a popup. Default is 10. Set to 0 to
247 disable this feature.
251 Optionally, allows links to users of the wiki to link to pages inside a
252 subdirectory of the wiki. The default is to link to pages in the toplevel
253 directory of the wiki.
257 Configures the extension used for generated html files. Default is "html".
259 * --timeformat format
261 Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
262 strftime(3) function.
264 * --verbose, --no-verbose
266 Be verbose about what is being done.
268 * --syslog, --no-syslog
272 * --usedirs, --no-usedirs
274 Create output files named page/index.html instead of page.html.
276 * --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
278 Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
279 without a web server.
283 Only send cookies over an SSL connection. This should prevent them being
284 intercepted. If you enable this option then you must run at least the
285 CGI portion of ikiwiki over SSL.
289 Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
290 system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
291 times of items in weblogs, such as when building a wiki from a new
292 Subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
293 with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
297 This allows setting an arbitrary configuration variable, the same as if it
298 were set via a configuration file. Since most options can be configured
299 using command-line switches, you will rarely need to use this, but it can be
300 useful for the odd option that lacks a command-line switch.
304 Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>
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