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`.
18 Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean
19 flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
23 The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
27 Be vebose about what it's doing.
31 Force a rebuild of all pages.
35 Pull last changed time for all pages out of the revision control system.
36 This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation times of
37 items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new subversion
38 checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow.
42 Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
43 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
47 Generate a [[wrapper]] binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
48 the other options, using the specified input files and `destination`
49 directory. The filename to use for the wrapper is optional.
51 The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
52 users, as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
54 Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
58 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
62 Enable or disable use of [[subversion]]. If subversion is enabled, the `source` directory is assumed to be a working copy, and is automatically updated before building the wiki.
64 In [[CGI]] mode, with subversion enabled pages edited via the web will be committed to subversion. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed on pages.
66 Subversion is enabled by default.
68 * --anonok, --noanonok
70 If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
72 By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
76 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
81 Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying [[RecentChanges]].
83 To use ikiwiki as a [[CGI]] program you need to use --wrapper to generate a wrapper. The wrapper will generally need to run suid 6755 to the user who owns the `source` and `destination` directories.
85 * --url http://someurl/
87 Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
89 * --cgiurl http://someurl/ikiwiki.cgi
91 Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script [[wrapper]]. Required when building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
93 * --historyurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
95 Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
96 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
99 * --diffurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
101 Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
102 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
103 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
104 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
108 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
109 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
113 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
114 Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
115 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
119 In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
120 program that can call ikiwiki internal functions. Uses of this are
121 various; the normal one is to automatically generate wrappers for a
122 wiki based on data in a config file.
124 Note that the wiki will be (re)built as part of the setup process to
125 ensure that any changes take effect.
127 [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
131 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
133 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care