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.
61 If you also pass the --refresh option, ikiwiki will instead just refresh
62 the wiki described in the setup file.
64 [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
68 These options configure the wiki.
72 The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
76 Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
77 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
81 Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory.
82 Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the
83 source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki`.
87 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
91 Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
92 ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
96 Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
98 If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
99 a [[Subversion]] working copy.
101 If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
104 In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled pages edited via
105 the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
108 svn is enabled by default.
110 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
112 Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required
113 for using --notify with [[subversion]].
117 Specify the path inside your svn reporistory where the wiki is located.
118 This defaults to trunk; change it if your wiki is at some other location
119 inside the repository.
121 * --anonok, --noanonok
123 If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
125 By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
129 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
134 Set this to the url to an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
135 updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the url
136 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
138 This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
143 Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
145 * --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi
147 Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
148 building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
150 * --historyurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
152 Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
153 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
154 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
156 * --adminemail you@yourhost
158 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
160 * --diffurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
162 Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
163 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
164 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
165 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
169 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
170 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
174 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
175 Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
176 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
180 Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
181 Note that plugin names are case sensative.
183 * --disable-plugin name
185 Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
186 to do away with html sanitization.
188 * --discussion, --no-discussion
190 Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
191 every page. The links are enabled by default.
193 * --timeformat format
195 Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
196 strftime(3) function.
200 Be vebose about what is being done.
204 Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
205 system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
206 times of items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new
207 subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
208 with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
212 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
214 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care