3 ikiwiki - a wiki compiler
7 ikiwiki [options] source destination
9 ikiwiki --setup setupfile
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 The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate
36 wrappers for a wiki based on data in a setup file, and rebuild the wiki.
37 If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with
40 * --changesetup setupfile
42 Reads the setup file, adds any configuration changes specified by other
43 options, and writes the new configuration back to the setup file. Also
44 updates any configured wrappers. In this mode, the wiki is not fully
45 rebuilt, unless you also add --rebuild.
47 Example, to enable some plugins:
49 ikiwiki --changesetup ~/ikiwiki.setup --plugin goodstuff --plugin calendar
51 * --dumpsetup setupfile
53 Causes ikiwiki to write to the specified setup file, dumping out
54 its current configuration.
58 If used with --setup --refresh, this makes it also update any configured
63 This makes ikiwiki clean up by removing any files it denerated in the
64 `destination` directory, as well as any configured wrappers, and the
65 `.ikiwiki` state directory. This is mostly useful if you're running
66 ikiwiki in a Makefile to build documentation and want a corresponding
71 Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
72 supports editing pages, signing in, and registration.
74 To use ikiwiki as a [[CGI]] program you need to use --wrapper or --setup
75 to generate a wrapper. The wrapper will generally need to run suid 6755 to
76 the user who owns the `source` and `destination` directories.
80 Generate a wrapper binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
81 the other options, using the specified input files and `destination`
82 directory. The filename to use for the wrapper is optional.
84 The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
85 users, as a [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
87 Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
91 If the [[plugins/aggregate]] plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll
92 configured feeds and save new posts to the srcdir.
94 Note that to rebuild previously aggregated posts, use the --rebuild option
95 along with this one. --rebuild will also force feeds to be polled even if
96 they were polled recently.
100 Renders a single file, outputting the resulting html. Does not save state,
101 so this cannot be used for building whole wikis, but it is useful for
102 previewing an edited file at the command line. Generally used in conjunction
103 with --setup to load in a wiki's setup:
105 ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki.setup --render foo.mdwn
109 Run in post-commit mode, the same as if called by a [[post-commit]] hook.
110 This is probably only useful when using ikiwiki with a web server on one host
111 and a repository on another, to allow the repository's real post-commit
112 hook to ssh to the web server host and manually run ikiwiki to update
117 Print ikiwiki's version number.
121 These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
122 configuration options of their own. All of these options and more besides can
123 also be configured using a setup file.
127 The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
131 Specify the directory that [[templates|templates]] are stored in.
132 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as configured at
133 build time. If the templatedir is changed, missing templates will still
134 be searched for in the default location as a fallback. Templates can also be
135 placed in the "templates/" subdirectory of the srcdir.
137 Note that if you choose to copy and modify ikiwiki's templates, you will need
138 to be careful to keep them up to date when upgrading to new versions of
139 ikiwiki. Old versions of templates do not always work with new ikiwiki
144 Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory.
145 Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the
146 source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki` or another
147 location as configured at build time.
151 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
153 * --wrappergroup group
155 Specify what unix group the wrapper should be owned by. This can be
156 useful if the wrapper needs to be owned by a group other than the default.
157 For example, if a project has a repository with multiple committers with
158 access controlled by a group, it makes sense for the ikiwiki wrappers
159 to run setgid to that group.
161 * --rcs=svn|git|.., --no-rcs
163 Enable or disable use of a [[revision_control_system|rcs]].
165 The `source` directory will be assumed to be a working copy, or clone, or
166 whatever the revision control system you select uses.
168 In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled, pages edited via
169 the web will be committed.
171 No revision control is enabled by default.
173 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
175 Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki.
179 Specify the path inside your svn repository where the wiki is located.
180 This defaults to `trunk`; change it if your wiki is at some other path
181 inside the repository. If your wiki is rooted at the top of the repository,
186 If rss is set, ikiwiki will default to generating RSS feeds for pages
187 that inline a [[blog]].
191 If allowrss is set, and rss is not set, ikiwiki will not default to
192 generating RSS feeds, but setting `rss=yes` in the inline directive can
193 override this default and generate a feed.
197 If atom is set, ikiwiki will default to generating Atom feeds for pages
198 that inline a [[blog]].
202 If allowatom is set, and rss is not set, ikiwiki will not default to
203 generating Atom feeds, but setting `atom=yes` in the inline directive can
204 override this default and generate a feed.
208 Set this to the URL of an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
209 updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the URL
210 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
212 This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
217 Specifies the URL to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
219 * --cgiurl http://example.org/ikiwiki.cgi
221 Specifies the URL to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
222 building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
226 Specifies the URL to link to for page history browsing. In the URL,
227 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
230 * --adminemail you@example.org
232 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
236 Specifies the URL to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the URL,
237 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
238 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
243 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
244 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
248 Specifies a rexexp of source files, that would normally be excluded,
249 but that you wish to include in processing.
250 May be specified multiple times to add to include list.
254 Specifies a username of a user (or, if openid is enabled, an openid)
255 who has the powers of a wiki admin. Currently allows locking of any page,
256 and [[banning|banned_users]] users; other powers may be added later.
257 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
259 For an openid user specify the full URL of the login, including "http://".
263 Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
264 Note that plugin names are case sensitive.
266 * --disable-plugin name
268 Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
269 to do away with HTML sanitization.
273 Makes ikiwiki look in the specified directory first, before the regular
274 locations when loading library files and plugins. For example, if you set
275 libdir to "/home/you/.ikiwiki/", you can install a foo.pm plugin as
276 "/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/foo.pm".
278 * --discussion, --no-discussion
280 Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
281 every page. The links are enabled by default.
285 Controls how many backlinks should be displayed at the bottom of a page.
286 Excess backlinks will be hidden in a popup. Default is 10. Set to 0 to
287 disable this feature.
291 Optionally, allows links to users of the wiki to link to pages inside a
292 subdirectory of the wiki. The default is to link to pages in the toplevel
293 directory of the wiki.
297 Configures the extension used for generated html files. Default is "html".
299 * --timeformat format
301 Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
302 strftime(3) function.
304 * --verbose, --no-verbose
306 Be verbose about what is being done.
308 * --syslog, --no-syslog
312 * --usedirs, --no-usedirs
314 Toggle creating output files named page/index.html (default) instead of page.html.
316 * --prefix-directives, --no-prefix-directives
318 Toggle new '!'-prefixed syntax for preprocessor directives. ikiwiki currently
319 defaults to --prefix-directives.
321 * --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
323 Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
324 without a web server.
328 Only send cookies over an SSL connection. This should prevent them being
329 intercepted. If you enable this option then you must run at least the
330 CGI portion of ikiwiki over SSL.
332 * --gettime, --no-gettime
334 Extract creation and modification times for each new page from the
335 the revision control's log. This is done automatically when building a
336 wiki for the first time, so you normally do not need to use this option.
340 This allows setting an arbitrary configuration variable, the same as if it
341 were set via a setup file. Since most commonly used options can be
342 configured using command-line switches, you will rarely need to use this.
344 * --set-yaml var=value
346 This is like --set, but it allows setting configuration variables that
347 use complex data structures, by passing in a YAML document.
351 * ikiwiki --setup my.setup
353 Completly (re)build the wiki using the specified setup file.
355 * ikiwiki --setup my.setup --refresh
357 Refresh the wiki, using settings from my.setup, and avoid
358 rebuilding any pages that have not changed. This is faster.
360 * ikiwiki --setup my.setup --refresh --wrappers
362 Refresh the wiki, including regnerating all wrapper programs,
363 but do not rebuild all pages. Useful if you have changed something
364 in the setup file that does not need a full wiki rebuild to update
365 all pages, but that you want to immediatly take effect.
371 This controls what C compiler is used to build wrappers. Default is 'cc'.
375 This can be used to pass options to the C compiler when building wrappers.
379 * [[ikiwiki-mass-rebuild]](8)
380 * [[ikiwiki-update-wikilist]](1)
381 * [[ikiwiki-transition]](1)
385 Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>
387 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page via [mdwn2man](http://git.ikiwiki.info/?p=ikiwiki;a=blob;f=mdwn2man;hb=HEAD). Edit with care