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 [[ikiwiki/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 * --wrappergroup group
130 Specify what unix group the wrapper should be owned by. This can be
131 useful if the wrapper needs to be owned by a group other than the default.
132 For example, if a project has a repository with multiple committers with
133 access controlled by a group, it makes sense for the ikiwiki wrappers
134 to run setgid to that group.
136 * --rcs=svn|git|.., --no-rcs
138 Enable or disable use of a [[revision_control_system|rcs]].
140 The `source` directory will be assumed to be a working copy, or clone, or
141 whatever the revision control system you select uses.
143 In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled, pages edited via
144 the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
147 No revision control is enabled by default.
151 Specify the path inside your svn repository where the wiki is located.
152 This defaults to `trunk`; change it if your wiki is at some other path
153 inside the repository. If your wiki is rooted at the top of the repository,
158 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate RSS feeds for pages that inline
163 If atom is set, ikiwiki will generate Atom feeds for pages that inline
168 Set this to the URL of an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
169 updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the URL
170 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
172 This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
177 Specifies the URL to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
179 * --cgiurl http://example.org/ikiwiki.cgi
181 Specifies the URL to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
182 building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
186 Specifies the URL to link to for page history browsing. In the URL,
187 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
190 * --adminemail you@example.org
192 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
196 Specifies the URL to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the URL,
197 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
198 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
203 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
204 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
208 Specifies a username of a user (or, if openid is enabled, an openid)
209 who has the powers of a wiki admin. Currently allows locking of any page,
210 and banning of users; other powers may be added later. May be specified
211 multiple times for multiple admins.
213 For an openid user specify the full URL of the login, including "http://".
217 Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
218 Note that plugin names are case sensitive.
220 * --disable-plugin name
222 Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
223 to do away with HTML sanitization.
227 Makes ikiwiki look in the specified directory first, before the regular
228 locations when loading library files and plugins. For example, if you set
229 libdir to "/home/you/.ikiwiki/", you can install a Foo.pm plugin as
230 "/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/Foo.pm".
232 * --discussion, --no-discussion
234 Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
235 every page. The links are enabled by default.
239 Controls how many backlinks should be displayed at the bottom of a page.
240 Excess backlinks will be hidden in a popup. Default is 10. Set to 0 to
241 disable this feature.
245 Optionally, allows links to users of the wiki to link to pages inside a
246 subdirectory of the wiki. The default is to link to pages in the toplevel
247 directory of the wiki.
251 Configures the extension used for generated html files. Default is "html".
253 * --timeformat format
255 Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
256 strftime(3) function.
258 * --verbose, --no-verbose
260 Be verbose about what is being done.
262 * --syslog, --no-syslog
266 * --usedirs, --no-usedirs
268 Toggle creating output files named page/index.html (default) instead of page.html.
270 * --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
272 Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
273 without a web server.
277 Only send cookies over an SSL connection. This should prevent them being
278 intercepted. If you enable this option then you must run at least the
279 CGI portion of ikiwiki over SSL.
283 Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
284 system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
285 times of items in weblogs, such as when building a wiki from a new
286 Subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
287 with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
291 This allows setting an arbitrary configuration variable, the same as if it
292 were set via a configuration file. Since most options can be configured
293 using command-line switches, you will rarely need to use this, but it can be
294 useful for the odd option that lacks a command-line switch.
300 This controls what C compiler is used to build wrappers. Default is 'cc'.
304 * [[ikiwiki-mass-rebuild]](8)
305 * [[ikiwiki-update-wikilist]](1)
309 Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>
311 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page via [mdwn2man](http://ikiwiki.info/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/mdwn2man?root=ikiwiki&view=markup). Edit with care