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, and registration.
38 To use ikiwiki as a [[CGI]] program you need to use --wrapper or --setup
39 to generate a wrapper. The wrapper will generally need to run suid 6755 to
40 the user who owns the `source` and `destination` directories.
44 Generate a wrapper binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
45 the other options, using the specified input files and `destination`
46 directory. The filename to use for the wrapper is optional.
48 The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
49 users, as a [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
51 Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
55 In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
56 program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
58 [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
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 only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with
67 If used with --setup --refresh, this makes it also update any configured
72 If the [[plugins/aggregate]] plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll
73 configured feeds and save new posts to the srcdir.
75 Note that to rebuild previously aggregated posts, use the --rebuild option
76 along with this one. --rebuild will also force feeds to be polled even if
77 they were polled recently.
81 Renders a single file, outputting the resulting html. Does not save state,
82 so this cannot be used for building whole wikis, but it is useful for
83 previewing an edited file at the command line. Generally used in conjunction
84 with --setup to load in a wiki's setup:
86 ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki.setup --render foo.mdwn
90 Run in post-commit mode, the same as if called by a [[post-commit]] hook.
91 This is probably only useful when using ikiwiki with a web server on one host
92 and a repository on another, to allow the repository's real post-commit
93 hook to ssh to the web server host and manually run ikiwiki to update
98 Print ikiwiki's version number.
102 These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
103 configuration options of their own.
107 The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
111 Specify the directory that the page [[templates|wikitemplates]] are stored in.
112 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as configured at
113 build time. If the templatedir is changed, missing templates will still
114 be searched for in the default location as a fallback.
116 Note that if you choose to copy and modify ikiwiki's templates, you will need
117 to be careful to keep them up to date when upgrading to new versions of
118 ikiwiki. Old versions of templates do not always work with new ikiwiki
123 Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory.
124 Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the
125 source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki` or another
126 location as configured at build time.
130 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
132 * --wrappergroup group
134 Specify what unix group the wrapper should be owned by. This can be
135 useful if the wrapper needs to be owned by a group other than the default.
136 For example, if a project has a repository with multiple committers with
137 access controlled by a group, it makes sense for the ikiwiki wrappers
138 to run setgid to that group.
140 * --rcs=svn|git|.., --no-rcs
142 Enable or disable use of a [[revision_control_system|rcs]].
144 The `source` directory will be assumed to be a working copy, or clone, or
145 whatever the revision control system you select uses.
147 In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled, pages edited via
148 the web will be committed.
150 No revision control is enabled by default.
152 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
154 Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki.
158 Specify the path inside your svn repository where the wiki is located.
159 This defaults to `trunk`; change it if your wiki is at some other path
160 inside the repository. If your wiki is rooted at the top of the repository,
165 If rss is set, ikiwiki will default to generating RSS feeds for pages
166 that inline a [[ikiwiki/blog]].
170 If allowrss is set, and rss is not set, ikiwiki will not default to
171 generating RSS feeds, but setting `rss=yes` in the blog can override
172 this default and generate a feed.
176 If atom is set, ikiwiki will default to generating Atom feeds for pages
177 that inline a [[ikiwiki/blog]].
181 If allowatom is set, and rss is not set, ikiwiki will not default to
182 generating Atom feeds, but setting `atom=yes` in the blog can override
183 this default and generate a feed.
187 Set this to the URL of an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
188 updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the URL
189 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
191 This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
196 Specifies the URL to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
198 * --cgiurl http://example.org/ikiwiki.cgi
200 Specifies the URL to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
201 building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
205 Specifies the URL to link to for page history browsing. In the URL,
206 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
209 * --adminemail you@example.org
211 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
215 Specifies the URL to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the URL,
216 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
217 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
222 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
223 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
227 Specifies a username of a user (or, if openid is enabled, an openid)
228 who has the powers of a wiki admin. Currently allows locking of any page,
229 and banning of users; other powers may be added later. May be specified
230 multiple times for multiple admins.
232 For an openid user specify the full URL of the login, including "http://".
236 Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
237 Note that plugin names are case sensitive.
239 * --disable-plugin name
241 Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
242 to do away with HTML sanitization.
246 Makes ikiwiki look in the specified directory first, before the regular
247 locations when loading library files and plugins. For example, if you set
248 libdir to "/home/you/.ikiwiki/", you can install a Foo.pm plugin as
249 "/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/Foo.pm".
251 * --discussion, --no-discussion
253 Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
254 every page. The links are enabled by default.
258 Controls how many backlinks should be displayed at the bottom of a page.
259 Excess backlinks will be hidden in a popup. Default is 10. Set to 0 to
260 disable this feature.
264 Optionally, allows links to users of the wiki to link to pages inside a
265 subdirectory of the wiki. The default is to link to pages in the toplevel
266 directory of the wiki.
270 Configures the extension used for generated html files. Default is "html".
272 * --timeformat format
274 Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
275 strftime(3) function.
277 * --verbose, --no-verbose
279 Be verbose about what is being done.
281 * --syslog, --no-syslog
285 * --usedirs, --no-usedirs
287 Toggle creating output files named page/index.html (default) instead of page.html.
289 * --prefix-directives, --no-prefix-directives
291 Toggle new '!'-prefixed syntax for preprocessor directives. ikiwiki currently
292 defaults to --no-prefix-directives.
294 * --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
296 Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
297 without a web server.
301 Only send cookies over an SSL connection. This should prevent them being
302 intercepted. If you enable this option then you must run at least the
303 CGI portion of ikiwiki over SSL.
307 Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
308 system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
309 times of items in weblogs, such as when building a wiki from a new
310 Subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
311 with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
315 This allows setting an arbitrary configuration variable, the same as if it
316 were set via a configuration file. Since most options can be configured
317 using command-line switches, you will rarely need to use this, but it can be
318 useful for the odd option that lacks a command-line switch.
324 This controls what C compiler is used to build wrappers. Default is 'cc'.
328 * [[ikiwiki-mass-rebuild]](8)
329 * [[ikiwiki-update-wikilist]](1)
333 Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>
335 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