# SYNOPSIS
-ikiwiki [options] source templates destination
+ikiwiki [options] source destination
ikiwiki --setup configfile
# 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`.
-
-# OPTIONS
+`source` in the [[MarkDown]] language, 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.
-* --wikiname
+# MODE OPTIONS
- The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
+These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
-* --verbose
+* --refresh
- Be vebose about what it's doing.
+ 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 wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
users, as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
- 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.
+ 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.
+
+ 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 also pass the --refresh option, ikiwiki will instead just refresh
+ the wiki described in the setup file.
+
+ [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
+
+# CONFIG OPTIONS
+
+These options configure the wiki.
+
+* --wikiname
+
+ 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.
+ Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
+
+* --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`.
* --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 [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook.
+
* --svn, --nosvn
- 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.
+ 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 subversion enabled pages edited via the web will be committed to subversion. 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.
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
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.
-* --cgi
+* --rss, --norss
- Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying [[RecentChanges]].
+ If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
+ a blog.
- 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.
-
-* --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.
-* --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.
-* --setup configfile
+* --sanitize
- In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
- program that can call ikiwiki internal functions. Uses of this are
- various; the normal one is to automatically generate wrappers for a
- wiki based on data in a config file.
-
- Note that the wiki will be (re)built as part of the setup process to
- ensure that any changes take effect.
+ Enable [[HtmlSanitization]] of wiki content. On by default, disable with
+ --no-sanitize.
- [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
+* --hyperestraier
+
+ Enables use of the [[HyperEstraier]] search engine for full test page
+ searches.
+
+* --verbose
+
+ Be vebose about what it's doing.
# AUTHOR