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 [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
61 The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate
62 wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file, and rebuild the wiki.
63 If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with
68 If used with --setup --refresh, this makes it also update any configured
73 If the [[plugins/aggregate]] plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll
74 configured feeds and save new posts to the srcdir.
76 Note that to rebuild previously aggregated posts, use the --rebuild option
77 along with this one. --rebuild will also force feeds to be polled even if
78 they were polled recently.
82 Renders a single file, outputting the resulting html. Does not save state,
83 so this cannot be used for building whole wikis, but it is useful for
84 previewing an edited file at the command line. Generally used in conjunction
85 with --setup to load in a wiki's setup:
87 ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki.setup --render foo.mdwn
91 Print ikiwiki version number.
95 These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
96 configuration options of their own.
100 The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
104 Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
105 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as
106 configured at build time.
110 Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory.
111 Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the
112 source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki` or another
113 location as configured at build time.
117 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
121 Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
122 ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
124 * --rcs=svn, --no-rcs
126 Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
128 If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
129 a [[Subversion]] working copy.
131 If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
134 If you use tla, the `source` directory is assumed to be a tla import.
136 If you use mercurial, the `source` directory is assumed to be the
137 [[mercurial]] repository.
139 In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled pages edited via
140 the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
143 svn is enabled by default.
145 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
147 Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required
148 for using --notify with [[subversion]].
152 Specify the path inside your svn reporistory where the wiki is located.
153 This defaults to trunk; change it if your wiki is at some other location
154 inside the repository.
156 * --anonok, --noanonok
158 If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
160 By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
164 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate RSS feeds for pages that inline
169 If atom is set, ikiwiki will generate Arom feeds for pages that inline
174 Set this to the url to an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
175 updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the url
176 http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
178 This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
183 Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
185 * --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi
187 Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
188 building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
192 Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
193 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
194 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
196 * --adminemail you@yourhost
198 Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
202 Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
203 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
204 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
205 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
209 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
210 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
214 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
215 Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
216 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
220 Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
221 Note that plugin names are case sensative.
223 * --disable-plugin name
225 Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
226 to do away with html sanitization.
228 * --discussion, --no-discussion
230 Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
231 every page. The links are enabled by default.
235 Optionally, allows links to users of the wiki to link to pages inside a
236 subdirectory of the wiki. The default is to link to pages in the toplevel
237 directory of the wiki.
239 * --timeformat format
241 Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
242 strftime(3) function.
244 * --verbose, --no-verbose
246 Be vebose about what is being done.
248 * --syslog, --no-syslog
252 * --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
254 Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
255 without a web server.
259 Only send cookies over an SSL connection. This should prevent them being
260 intercepted. If you enable this option then you must run at least the
261 CGI portion of ikiwiki over SSL.
265 Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
266 system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
267 times of items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new
268 subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
269 with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
273 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
275 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care