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 Refresh the wiki, updating any changes pages. This is the default
36 behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.
40 Pull last changed time for all pages out of the revision control system.
41 This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation times of
42 items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new subversion
43 checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow.
47 Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
48 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
52 Generate a [[wrapper]] binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
53 the other options, using the specified input files and `destination`
54 directory. The filename to use for the wrapper is optional.
56 The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
57 users, as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
59 Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
63 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
67 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.
69 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.
71 Subversion is enabled by default.
73 * --anonok, --noanonok
75 If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
77 By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
81 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
86 Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying [[RecentChanges]].
88 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.
90 * --url http://someurl/
92 Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
94 * --cgiurl http://someurl/ikiwiki.cgi
96 Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script [[wrapper]]. Required when building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
98 * --historyurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
100 Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
101 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
102 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
104 * --diffurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
106 Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
107 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
108 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
109 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
113 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
114 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
118 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
119 Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
120 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
124 In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
125 program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
127 The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate
128 wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file, and rebuild the wiki.
129 If you also pass the --refresh option, ikiwiki will instead just refresh
130 the wiki described in the setup file.
132 [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
136 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
138 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care