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 # SYNOPSIS
 
 
 # SYNOPSIS
 

-ikiwiki [options] source templates destination
+ikiwiki [options] source destination
+
+ikiwiki --setup configfile

 
 # DESCRIPTION
 
 
 # DESCRIPTION
 

-`ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static html pages for a wiki, from `source` in the [[MarkDown]] `language`, using the specified html `templates` and writes it out to `destination`.
+`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
+`destination`.
+
+Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean
+flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
+
+# MODE OPTIONS
+
+These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
+
+* --refresh
+
+  Refresh the wiki, updating any changed pages. This is the default
+  behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.
+
+* --rebuild
+
+  Force a rebuild of all pages.
+
+* --cgi
+
+  Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
+  supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying
+  [[RecentChanges]].
+
+  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
+  the user who owns the `source` and `destination` directories.
+
+* --wrapper [file]
+
+  Generate a wrapper binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
+  the other options, using the specified input files and `destination`
+  directory. The filename to use for the wrapper is optional.
+
+  The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
+  users, as a [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
+
+  Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.

 
 

-# OPTIONS
+* --setup configfile

 
 

-Note that most options can be shortened to single letters.
+  In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
+  program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
+
+  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.
+
+  [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
+
+* --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
+  configured feeds and save new posts to the srcdir.
+
+  Note that to rebuild previously aggregated posts, use the --rebuild option
+  along with this one. --rebuild will also force feeds to be polled even if
+  they were polled recently.
+
+* --version
+
+  Print ikiwiki version number.
+
+# CONFIG OPTIONS
+
+These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
+configuration options of their own.

 
 * --wikiname
 
 
 * --wikiname
 

-The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
+  The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".

 
 

-* --verbose
+* --templatedir

 
 

-Be vebose about what it's doing.
+  Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
+  Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as
+  configured at build time.

 
 

-* --rebuild
+* --underlaydir
+
+  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
+  source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki` or another
+  location as configured at build time.
+
+* --wrappermode mode
+
+  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.

 
 

-Force a rebuild of all pages.
+* --rcs=svn, --no-rcs

 
 

-* --wrapper
+  Enable or disable use of a revision control system.

 
 

-Generate a [[wrapper]] binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by the other options, using the specified input files and `destination` directory.
+  If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
+  a [[Subversion]] working copy.

 
 

-The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted users, as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
+  If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
+  [[git]] repository.

 
 

-Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters except for --params, which will make it print out the parameters it would run ikiwiki with.
+  If you use tla, the `source` directory is assumed to be a tla import.

 
 

-* --svn, --nosvn
+  If you use mercurial, the `source` directory is assumed to be the
+  [[mercurial]] repository.

 
 

-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. 
+  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.

 
 

-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.
+  svn is enabled by default.

 
 

-Subversion 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]].
+
+* --svnpath trunk
+
+  Specify the path inside your svn reporistory where the wiki is located.
+  This defaults to trunk; change it if your wiki is at some other location
+  inside the repository.

 
 * --anonok, --noanonok
 
 
 * --anonok, --noanonok
 

-If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
+  If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.

 
 

-By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
+  By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.

 
 

-* --cgi
+* --rss, --norss
+
+  If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
+  a [[blog]].
+
+* --pingurl url
+
+  Set this to the url to an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is
+  updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the url
+  http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
+
+  This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
+  url to ping.
+
+* --url url
+
+  Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
+
+* --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi
+
+  Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
+  building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
+
+* --historyurl url
+
+  Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
+  "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
+  [[ViewCVS]] for this.
+
+* --adminemail you@yourhost
+
+  Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
+
+* --diffurl url

 
 

-Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying [[RecentChanges]].
+  Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
+  "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
+  revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
+  [[ViewCVS]] for this.

 
 

-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.
+* --exclude regexp

 
 

-* --url http://someurl/
+  Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
+  May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.

 
 

-Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
+* --adminuser name

 
 

-* --cgiurl http://someurl/ikiwiki.cgi
+  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 the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script [[wrapper]]. Required when building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
+* --plugin name

 
 

-* --historyurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/[[]]?root=wiki
+  Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki. 
+  Note that plugin names are case sensative.

 
 

-Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url, "[[]]" is replaced with the page to browse. It's common to use [[ViewCVS]] for this.
+* --disable-plugin name
+
+  Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
+  to do away with html sanitization.
+
+* --discussion, --no-discussion
+
+  Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of
+  every page. The links are enabled by default.
+
+* --timeformat format
+
+  Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the
+  strftime(3) function.
+
+* --verbose, --no-verbose
+
+  Be vebose about what is being done.
+
+* --syslog, --no-syslog
+
+  Log to syslog.
+
+* --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
+
+  Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
+  without a web server.
+
+* --sslcookie
+
+  Only send cookies over an SSL connection. This should prevent them being
+  intercepted. If you enable this option then you must run at least the 
+  CGI portion of ikiwiki over SSL.
+
+* --getctime
+
+  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, for example 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.

 
 # AUTHOR
 
 
 # AUTHOR
 

-Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
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+Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
+
+Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care