ikiwiki [options] source destination
-ikiwiki --setup configfile
+ikiwiki --setup setupfile [options]
# DESCRIPTION
`ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static HTML pages for a wiki, from
-`source` in the [[Markdown]] language (or others), and writes it out to
+`source` in the [[ikiwiki/Markdown]] language (or others), and writes it out to
`destination`.
-Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean
-flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
+Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, boolean
+flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose, and
+options such as --verbose can also be spelled like -verbose.
# MODE OPTIONS
* --refresh
Refresh the wiki, updating any changed pages. This is the default
- behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.
+ behavior if no other mode action is specified (but note that --setup is
+ a mode action, and has different default behavior).
* --rebuild
Force a rebuild of all pages.
+* --setup setupfile
+
+ Load options from the given setup file. If no other mode action is specified,
+ generate wrappers and rebuild the wiki, as if --rebuild --wrappers were used.
+ If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with
+ --setup.
+
+* --changesetup setupfile
+
+ Reads the setup file, adds any configuration changes specified by other
+ options, and writes the new configuration back to the setup file. Also
+ updates any configured wrappers. In this mode, the wiki is not fully
+ rebuilt, unless you also add --rebuild.
+
+ Example, to enable some plugins:
+
+ ikiwiki --changesetup ~/ikiwiki.setup --plugin goodstuff --plugin calendar
+
+* --dumpsetup setupfile
+
+ Causes ikiwiki to write to the specified setup file, dumping out
+ its current configuration.
+
+* --wrappers
+
+ If used with --setup --refresh, this makes it also update any configured
+ wrappers.
+
+* --clean
+
+ This makes ikiwiki clean up by removing any files it generated in the
+ `destination` directory, as well as any configured wrappers, and the
+ `.ikiwiki` state directory. This is mostly useful if you're running
+ ikiwiki in a Makefile to build documentation and want a corresponding
+ `clean` target.
+
* --cgi
Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
- supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying
- [[RecentChanges]].
+ supports editing pages, signing in, and registration.
To use ikiwiki as a [[CGI]] program you need to use --wrapper or --setup
to generate a wrapper. The wrapper will generally need to run suid 6755 to
Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
-* --setup configfile
-
- In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
- program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
-
- [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
-
- The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate
- wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file, and rebuild the wiki.
- If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with
- --setup.
-
-* --wrappers
-
- If used with --setup --refresh, this makes it also update any configured
- wrappers.
-
* --aggregate
If the [[plugins/aggregate]] plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll
ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki.setup --render foo.mdwn
+* --post-commit
+
+ Run in post-commit mode, the same as if called by a [[post-commit]] hook.
+ This is probably only useful when using ikiwiki with a web server on one host
+ and a repository on another, to allow the repository's real post-commit
+ hook to ssh to the web server host and manually run ikiwiki to update
+ the web site.
+
* --version
Print ikiwiki's version number.
# CONFIG OPTIONS
These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
-configuration options of their own.
+configuration options of their own. All of these options and more besides can
+also be configured using a setup file.
-* --wikiname
+* --wikiname name
The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
-* --templatedir
+* --templatedir dir
- Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in. Default
- is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as configured at
+ Specify the directory that [[templates|templates]] are stored in.
+ Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as configured at
build time. If the templatedir is changed, missing templates will still
- be searched for in the default location as a fallback.
+ be searched for in the default location as a fallback. Templates can also be
+ placed in the "templates/" subdirectory of the srcdir.
-* --underlaydir
+ Note that if you choose to copy and modify ikiwiki's templates, you will need
+ to be careful to keep them up to date when upgrading to new versions of
+ ikiwiki. Old versions of templates do not always work with new ikiwiki
+ versions.
+
+* --underlaydir dir
Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory.
Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the
Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
-* --notify
-
- Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
- ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
+* --wrappergroup group
-* --rcs=svn, --no-rcs
+ Specify what unix group the wrapper should be owned by. This can be
+ useful if the wrapper needs to be owned by a group other than the default.
+ For example, if a project has a repository with multiple committers with
+ access controlled by a group, it makes sense for the ikiwiki wrappers
+ to run setgid to that group.
- Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
+* --rcs=svn|git|.., --no-rcs
- If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
- a [[Subversion]] working copy.
+ Enable or disable use of a [[revision_control_system|rcs]].
- If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
- [[git]] repository.
-
- If you use tla, the `source` directory is assumed to be a tla import.
-
- If you use mercurial, the `source` directory is assumed to be the
- [[mercurial]] repository.
+ The `source` directory will be assumed to be a working copy, or clone, or
+ whatever the revision control system you select uses.
In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled, pages edited via
- the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
- on pages.
+ the web will be committed.
No revision control is enabled by default.
* --svnrepo /svn/wiki
- Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required
- for using --notify with [[Subversion]].
+ Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki.
* --svnpath trunk
Specify the path inside your svn repository where the wiki is located.
This defaults to `trunk`; change it if your wiki is at some other path
- inside the repository.
+ inside the repository. If your wiki is rooted at the top of the repository,
+ set svnpath to "".
* --rss, --norss
- If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate RSS feeds for pages that inline
- a [[blog]].
+ If rss is set, ikiwiki will default to generating RSS feeds for pages
+ that inline a [[blog]].
+
+* --allowrss
+
+ If allowrss is set, and rss is not set, ikiwiki will not default to
+ generating RSS feeds, but setting `rss=yes` in the inline directive can
+ override this default and generate a feed.
* --atom, --noatom
- If atom is set, ikiwiki will generate Atom feeds for pages that inline
- a [[blog]].
+ If atom is set, ikiwiki will default to generating Atom feeds for pages
+ that inline a [[blog]].
+
+* --allowatom
+
+ If allowatom is set, and rss is not set, ikiwiki will not default to
+ generating Atom feeds, but setting `atom=yes` in the inline directive can
+ override this default and generate a feed.
* --pingurl URL
Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
+* --include regexp
+
+ Specifies a rexexp of source files, that would normally be excluded,
+ but that you wish to include in processing.
+ May be specified multiple times to add to include list.
+
* --adminuser name
- Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
- Currently allows locking of any page; other powers may be added later.
- May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
+ Specifies a username of a user (or, if openid is enabled, an openid)
+ who has the powers of a wiki admin. Currently allows locking of any page,
+ and [[banning|banned_users]] users, as well as powers granted by
+ enabled plugins (such as [[moderating comments|plugins/moderatedcomments]]
+ and [[plugins/websetup]]. May be specified multiple times for multiple
+ admins.
+
+ For an openid user specify the full URL of the login, including "http://".
* --plugin name
Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
to do away with HTML sanitization.
+* --libdir directory
+
+ Makes ikiwiki look in the specified directory first, before the regular
+ locations when loading library files and plugins. For example, if you set
+ libdir to "/home/you/.ikiwiki/", you can install a foo.pm plugin as
+ "/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/foo.pm".
+
* --discussion, --no-discussion
Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
every page. The links are enabled by default.
+* --numbacklinks n
+
+ Controls how many backlinks should be displayed at the bottom of a page.
+ Excess backlinks will be hidden in a popup. Default is 10. Set to 0 to
+ disable this feature.
+
* --userdir subdir
Optionally, allows links to users of the wiki to link to pages inside a
subdirectory of the wiki. The default is to link to pages in the toplevel
directory of the wiki.
+* --htmlext html
+
+ Configures the extension used for generated html files. Default is "html".
+
* --timeformat format
Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
Log to syslog(3).
+* --usedirs, --no-usedirs
+
+ Toggle creating output files named page/index.html (default) instead of page.html.
+
+* --prefix-directives, --no-prefix-directives
+
+ Toggle new '!'-prefixed syntax for preprocessor directives. ikiwiki currently
+ defaults to --prefix-directives.
+
* --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
intercepted. If you enable this option then you must run at least the
CGI portion of ikiwiki over SSL.
-* --getctime
+* --gettime, --no-gettime
+
+ Extract creation and modification times for each new page from the
+ the revision control's log. This is done automatically when building a
+ wiki for the first time, so you normally do not need to use this option.
+
+* --set var=value
+
+ This allows setting an arbitrary configuration variable, the same as if it
+ were set via a setup file. Since most commonly used options can be
+ configured using command-line switches, you will rarely need to use this.
+
+* --set-yaml var=value
+
+ This is like --set, but it allows setting configuration variables that
+ use complex data structures, by passing in a YAML document.
+
+# EXAMPLES
+
+* ikiwiki --setup my.setup
+
+ Completely (re)build the wiki using the specified setup file.
+
+* ikiwiki --setup my.setup --refresh
+
+ Refresh the wiki, using settings from my.setup, and avoid
+ rebuilding any pages that have not changed. This is faster.
+
+* ikiwiki --setup my.setup --refresh --wrappers
+
+ Refresh the wiki, including regenerating all wrapper programs,
+ but do not rebuild all pages. Useful if you have changed something
+ in the setup file that does not need a full wiki rebuild to update
+ all pages, but that you want to immediately take effect.
+
+* ikiwiki --rebuild srcdir destdir
+
+ Use srcdir as source and build HTML in destdir, without using a
+ setup file.
+
+* ikiwiki srcdir destdir
+
+ Use srcdir as source to update changed pages' HTML in destdir,
+ without using a setup file.
+
+# ENVIRONMENT
+
+* CC
+
+ This controls what C compiler is used to build wrappers. Default is 'cc'.
+
+* CFLAGS
+
+ This can be used to pass options to the C compiler when building wrappers.
+
+# SEE ALSO
- Pull last changed time for each new page out of the revision control
- system. This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation
- times of items in weblogs, such as when building a wiki from a new
- Subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
- with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
+* [[ikiwiki-mass-rebuild]](8)
+* [[ikiwiki-update-wikilist]](1)
+* [[ikiwiki-transition]](1)
# AUTHOR
-Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
+Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>
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