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. If used with -setup also
28 updates any configured wrappers.
32 Force a rebuild of all pages.
36 Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
37 supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying
40 To use ikiwiki as a [[CGI]] program you need to use --wrapper or --setup
41 to generate a wrapper. The wrapper will generally need to run suid 6755 to
42 the user who owns the `source` and `destination` directories.
46 Generate a wrapper binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
47 the other options, using the specified input files and `destination`
48 directory. The filename to use for the wrapper is optional.
50 The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
51 users, as a [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
53 Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
57 In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
58 program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
60 The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate
61 wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file, and rebuild the wiki.
62 If you also pass the --refresh option, ikiwiki will instead just refresh
63 the wiki described in the setup file.
65 [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
69 These options configure the wiki. Note that plugins can add additional
70 configuration options of their own.
74 The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
78 Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
79 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
83 Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory.
84 Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the
85 source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki`.
89 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
93 Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
94 ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
98 Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
100 If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
101 a [[Subversion]] working copy.
103 If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
106 In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled pages edited via
107 the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
110 svn 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 Set this to the url to an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
137 updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the url
138 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
140 This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
145 Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
147 * --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi
149 Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
150 building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
152 * --historyurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
154 Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
155 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
156 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
158 * --adminemail you@yourhost
160 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
162 * --diffurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
164 Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
165 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
166 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
167 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
171 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
172 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
176 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
177 Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
178 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
182 Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
183 Note that plugin names are case sensative.
185 * --disable-plugin name
187 Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
188 to do away with html sanitization.
190 * --discussion, --no-discussion
192 Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
193 every page. The links are enabled by default.
195 * --timeformat format
197 Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
198 strftime(3) function.
202 Be vebose about what is being done.
204 * --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
206 Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
207 without a web server.
211 Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
212 system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
213 times of items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new
214 subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
215 with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
219 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
221 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care