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 Pull last changed time for all pages out of the revision control system.
76 This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation times of
77 items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new subversion
78 checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow.
82 Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
83 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
87 Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory.
88 Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the
89 source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki`.
93 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
97 Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
98 ikiwiki as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook.
102 Enable or disable use of [[subversion]]. If subversion is enabled, the
103 `source` directory is assumed to be a working copy, and is automatically
104 updated before building the wiki.
106 In [[CGI]] mode, with subversion enabled pages edited via the web will be
107 committed to subversion. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
110 Subversion is enabled by default.
112 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
114 Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required
115 for using --notify with [[subversion]].
119 Specify the path inside your svn reporistory where the wiki is located.
120 This defaults to trunk; change it if your wiki is at some other location
121 inside the repository.
123 * --anonok, --noanonok
125 If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
127 By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
131 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
136 Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
138 * --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi
140 Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script [[wrapper]]. Required when building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
142 * --historyurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
144 Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
145 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
146 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
148 * --adminemail you@yourhost
150 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
152 * --diffurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
154 Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
155 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
156 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
157 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
161 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
162 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
166 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
167 Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
168 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
172 Enable [[HtmlSanitization]] of wiki content. On by default, disable with
177 Enables use of the [[HyperEstraier]] search engine for full test page
182 Be vebose about what it's doing.
186 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
188 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care