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.
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 The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate
60 wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file, and rebuild the wiki.
62 [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
66 If used with --setup --refresh, this makes it also update any configured
71 If the [[plugins/aggregate]] plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll
72 configured feeds and save new posts to the srcdir.
74 Note that to rebuild previously aggregated posts, use the --rebuild option
75 along with this one. --rebuild will also force feeds to be polled even if
76 they were polled recently.
80 Renders a single file, outputting the resulting html. Does not save state,
81 so this cannot be used for building whole wikis, but it is useful for
82 previewing an edited file at the command line. Generally used in conjunction
83 with --setup to load in a wiki's setup:
85 ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki.setup --render foo.mdwn
89 Print ikiwiki version number.
93 These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
94 configuration options of their own.
98 The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
102 Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
103 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as
104 configured at build time.
108 Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory.
109 Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the
110 source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki` or another
111 location as configured at build time.
115 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
119 Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
120 ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
122 * --rcs=svn, --no-rcs
124 Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
126 If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
127 a [[Subversion]] working copy.
129 If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
132 If you use tla, the `source` directory is assumed to be a tla import.
134 If you use mercurial, the `source` directory is assumed to be the
135 [[mercurial]] repository.
137 In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled pages edited via
138 the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
141 svn is enabled by default.
143 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
145 Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required
146 for using --notify with [[subversion]].
150 Specify the path inside your svn reporistory where the wiki is located.
151 This defaults to trunk; change it if your wiki is at some other location
152 inside the repository.
154 * --anonok, --noanonok
156 If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
158 By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
162 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
167 Set this to the url to an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
168 updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the url
169 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
171 This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
176 Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
178 * --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi
180 Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
181 building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
185 Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
186 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
187 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
189 * --adminemail you@yourhost
191 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
195 Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
196 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
197 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
198 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
202 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
203 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
207 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
208 Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
209 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
213 Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
214 Note that plugin names are case sensative.
216 * --disable-plugin name
218 Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
219 to do away with html sanitization.
221 * --discussion, --no-discussion
223 Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
224 every page. The links are enabled by default.
226 * --timeformat format
228 Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
229 strftime(3) function.
231 * --verbose, --no-verbose
233 Be vebose about what is being done.
235 * --syslog, --no-syslog
239 * --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
241 Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
242 without a web server.
246 Only send cookies over an SSL connection. This should prevent them being
247 intercepted. If you enable this option then you must run at least the
248 CGI portion of ikiwiki over SSL.
252 Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
253 system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
254 times of items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new
255 subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
256 with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
260 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
262 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care