* --refresh
- Refresh the wiki, updating any changes pages. This is the default
+ Refresh the wiki, updating any changed pages. This is the default
behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.
* --rebuild
* --wrapper [file]
- Generate a [[wrapper]] binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
+ 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 [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
+ users, as a [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
-* --fixctime
-
- Pull last changed time for all pages 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.
-
* --templatedir
Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
-* --svn, --nosvn
+* --notify
+
+ Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
+ ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
+
+* --rcs=svn, --no-rcs
+
+ Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
+
+ If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
+ a [[Subversion]] working copy.
+
+ If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
+ [[git]] repository.
+
+ 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.
+
+ svn is enabled by default.
+
+* --svnrepo /svn/wiki
- 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.
+ Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required
+ for using --notify with [[subversion]].
- 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.
+* --svnpath trunk
- Subversion is enabled by default.
+ 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
* --rss, --norss
If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
- a blog.
+ a [[blog]].
-* --url http://someurl/
+* --url http://url/
Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
-* --cgiurl http://someurl/ikiwiki.cgi
+* --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.
+ Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
+ building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
-* --historyurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
+* --historyurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
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.
-* --diffurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
+* --adminemail you@yourhost
+
+ Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
+
+* --diffurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
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
Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
-* --hyperestraier
+* --plugin name
+
+ Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
+ Note that plugin names are case sensative.
+
+* --disable-plugin name
+
+ Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
+ to do away with html sanitization.
- Enables use of the [[HyperEstraier]] search engine for full test page
- searches.
+* --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
- Be vebose about what it's doing.
+ Be vebose about what is being done.
+
+* --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.
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