# DESCRIPTION
-`ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static html pages for a wiki, from
-`source` in the [[MarkDown]] language, and writes it out to `destination`.
+`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.
# MODE OPTIONS
-These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
+These options control the mode that ikiwiki operates in.
* --refresh
Force a rebuild of all pages.
+* --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 only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with
+ --setup.
+
+* --dumpsetup configfile
+
+ Causes ikiwiki to write to the specified config 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, 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
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.
-* --setup configfile
+* --aggregate
- In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
- program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
+ If the [[plugins/aggregate]] plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll
+ configured feeds and save new posts to the srcdir.
- 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.
+ 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.
+
+* --version
- [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
+ Print ikiwiki's version number.
# CONFIG OPTIONS
-These options configure the wiki.
+These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
+configuration options of their own.
* --wikiname
* --templatedir
- Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
- Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
+ 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
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`.
+ 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
+* --wrappergroup group
- Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
- ikiwiki as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook.
+ 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.
-* --rcs=svn, --no-rcs
+* --rcs=svn|git|.., --no-rcs
- Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
+ Enable or disable use of a [[revision_control_system|rcs]].
- If you use svn ([[Subversion]]), the `source` directory is assumed to be
- a working copy, and is automatically updated before building the wiki.
+ 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.
+ In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled, pages edited via
+ the web will be committed.
- svn is enabled by default.
+ 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 reporistory where the wiki is located.
- This defaults to trunk; change it if your wiki is at some other location
- inside the repository.
+ 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
-* --anonok, --noanonok
+ If rss is set, ikiwiki will default to generating RSS feeds for pages
+ that inline a [[blog]].
- If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
+* --allowrss
- By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
+ 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.
-* --rss, --norss
+* --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.
- If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
- a [[blog]].
+* --pingurl URL
-* --url http://url/
+ 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
- Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
+ This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
+ URL to ping.
-* --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi
+* --url URL
- Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
+ Specifies the URL to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
+
+* --cgiurl http://example.org/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://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
+* --historyurl URL
- Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the 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.
+ [[ViewVC]] for this.
-* --adminemail you@yourhost
+* --adminemail you@example.org
Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
-* --diffurl http://url/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
- [[ViewCVS]] for this.
+ [[ViewVC]] for this.
* --exclude regexp
* --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.
+ For an openid user specify the full URL of the login, including "http://".
+
* --plugin name
- Enables the use of the specified plugin in the wiki. See [[plugins]] for
- details. Note that plugin names are case sensative.
+ 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.
+ 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.
-* --verbose
+* --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
- Be vebose about what is being done.
+ 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 --no-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 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
+ 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.
+* --set var=value
+
+ This allows setting an arbitrary configuration variable, the same as if it
+ were set via a configuration 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.
+
+# ENVIRONMENT
+
+* CC
+
+ This controls what C compiler is used to build wrappers. Default is 'cc'.
+
+# SEE ALSO
+
+* [[ikiwiki-mass-rebuild]](8)
+* [[ikiwiki-update-wikilist]](1)
+* [[ikiwiki-transition]](1)
+
# 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