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 # SYNOPSIS
 
 
 # SYNOPSIS
 

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

 
 

-ikiwiki --setup configfile
+ikiwiki --setup setupfile

 
 # 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`.
-
-# OPTIONS
+`ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static HTML pages for a wiki, from
+`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, 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 operates 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.
 
 
 * --rebuild
 
   Force a rebuild of all pages.
 

+* --setup setupfile
+
+  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 setup file, and rebuild the wiki.
+  If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with
+  --setup.
+
+* --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.
+
+* --cgi
+
+  Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
+  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
+  the user who owns the `source` and `destination` directories.
+

 * --wrapper [file]
 
 * --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
   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.
+
+* --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.
+
+* --render file
+
+  Renders a single file, outputting the resulting html. Does not save state,
+  so this cannot be used for building whole wikis, but it is useful for
+  previewing an edited file at the command line. Generally used in conjunction
+  with --setup to load in a wiki's setup:
+
+       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.

 
 

-  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.
+* --version
+
+  Print ikiwiki's version number.
+
+# CONFIG OPTIONS
+
+These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
+configuration options of their own. All of these options and more besides can
+also be configured using a setup file.
+
+* --wikiname name
+
+  The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
+
+* --templatedir dir
+
+  Specify the directory that the page [[templates|wikitemplates]] 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.
+
+  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
+  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.
 
 
 * --wrappermode mode
 
   Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
 

-* --svn, --nosvn
+* --wrappergroup group

 
 

-  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 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.

 
 

-  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.
+* --rcs=svn|git|.., --no-rcs

 
 

-  Subversion is enabled by default.
+  Enable or disable use of a [[revision_control_system|rcs]].

 
 

-* --anonok, --noanonok
+  The `source` directory will be assumed to be a working copy, or clone, or
+  whatever the revision control system you select uses.

 
 

-  If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
+  In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled, pages edited via
+  the web will be committed.

 
 

-  By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
+  No revision control is enabled by default.

 
 

-* --cgi
+* --svnrepo /svn/wiki
+
+  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. If your wiki is rooted at the top of the repository,
+  set svnpath to "".
+
+* --rss, --norss
+
+  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 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.

 
 

-  Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying [[RecentChanges]].
+* --pingurl URL

 
 

-  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.
+  Set this to the URL of 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

 
 

-* --url http://someurl/
+  This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
+  URL to ping.

 
 

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

 
 

-* --cgiurl http://someurl/ikiwiki.cgi
+  Specifies the URL to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.

 
 

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

 
 

-* --historyurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
+  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 link to for page history browsing. In the url,
+* --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
   "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use

-  [[ViewCVS]] for this.
+  [[ViewVC]] for this.
+
+* --adminemail you@example.org
+
+  Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.

 
 

-* --diffurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
+* --diffurl URL

 
 

-  Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
+  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
   "\[[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.
+  [[ViewVC]] for this.

 
 * --exclude regexp
 
 
 * --exclude regexp
 


@@ -96,24 +228,131 @@ flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
 
 * --adminuser name
 
 
 * --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.
+  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; other powers may be added later.

   May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
 
   May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
 

-* --setup configfile
+  For an openid user specify the full URL of the login, including "http://".

 
 

-  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.
+* --plugin name
+
+  Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki. 
+  Note that plugin names are case sensitive.
+
+* --disable-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
+  strftime(3) function.
+
+* --verbose, --no-verbose
+
+  Be verbose about what is being done.
+
+* --syslog, --no-syslog
+
+  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,
+  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 creation 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
+  VCS checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
+  with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
+
+* --set var=value

   
   

-  Note that the wiki will be (re)built as part of the setup process to
-  ensure that any changes take effect.
+  This allows setting an arbitrary configuration variable, the same as if it
+  were set via a setup file. Since most options can be configured
+  using command-line switches, you will rarely need to use this, but it can be
+  useful for the odd option that lacks a command-line switch.
+
+# EXAMPLES
+
+* ikiwiki --setup my.setup
+
+  Completly (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 regnerating 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 immediatly take effect.
+
+# ENVIRONMENT
+
+* CC
+
+  This controls what C compiler is used to build wrappers. Default is 'cc'.
+
+# SEE ALSO

 
 

-  [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
+* [[ikiwiki-mass-rebuild]](8)
+* [[ikiwiki-update-wikilist]](1)
+* [[ikiwiki-transition]](1)

 
 # AUTHOR
 
 
 # AUTHOR
 

-Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
+Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>

 
 

-Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care
+Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page via [mdwn2man](http://git.ikiwiki.info/?p=ikiwiki;a=blob;f=mdwn2man;hb=HEAD).  Edit with care