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@@ -10,15 +10,16 @@ ikiwiki --setup configfile
 
 # DESCRIPTION
 
 
 # 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 [[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
 
 
 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
 
 
 * --refresh
 


@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
   directory. The filename to use for the wrapper is optional.
 
   The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
   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.
 
 
   Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
 


@@ -55,16 +56,52 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
   In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
   program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
 
   In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
   program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
 

+  [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
+

   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.
   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.
+  If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with
+  --setup.

 
 

-  [[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.
+
+* --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
+
+  Print ikiwiki's version number.

 
 # CONFIG OPTIONS
 
 
 # CONFIG OPTIONS
 

-These options configure the wiki.
+These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
+configuration options of their own.

 
 * --wikiname
 
 
 * --wikiname
 


@@ -72,83 +109,104 @@ These options configure the wiki.
 
 * --templatedir
 
 
 * --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.

 
 * --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
 
 * --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.
 
 
 * --wrappermode mode
 
   Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
 

-* --notify
+* --notify, --no-notify

 
   Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
 
   Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running

-  ikiwiki as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook.
+  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.

 
 

-* --svn, --nosvn
+  If you use tla, the `source` directory is assumed to be a tla import.

 
 

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

 
 

-  In [[CGI]] mode, with subversion enabled pages edited via the web will be
-  committed to subversion. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed
+  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.
 
   on pages.
 

-  Subversion 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
 
 * --svnrepo /svn/wiki
 
   Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required

-  for using --notify with [[subversion]].
+  for using --notify with [[Subversion]].

 
 * --svnpath trunk
 
 
 * --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 "".

 
 

-* --anonok, --noanonok
+* --rss, --norss

 
 

-  If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
+  If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate RSS feeds for pages that inline
+  a [[blog]].

 
 

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

 
 

-* --rss, --norss
-
-  If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
+  If atom is set, ikiwiki will generate Atom feeds for pages that inline

   a [[blog]].
 
   a [[blog]].
 

-* --url http://url/
+* --pingurl 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.
 
   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
   "\[[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.
 
 
   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
   "\[[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
 


@@ -158,37 +216,92 @@ These options configure the wiki.
 * --adminuser name
 
   Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
 * --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.
+  Currently allows locking of any page; other powers may be added later.

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

-* --sanitize
+* --plugin name
+
+  Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki. 
+  Note that plugin names are case sensitive.

 
 

-  Enable [[HtmlSanitization]] of wiki content. On by default, disable with
-  --no-sanitize.
+* --disable-plugin name

 
 

-* --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.

 
 

-  Enables the use of the specified plugin in the wiki. See [[plugins]] for
-  details. Note that plugin names are case sensative.
+* --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode

 
 

-* --hyperestraier
+  Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
+  without a web server.

 
 

-  Enables use of the [[HyperEstraier]] search engine for full test page
-  searches.
+* --sslcookie

 
 

-* --verbose
+  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.

 
 

-  Be vebose about what is being done.
+* --getctime

 
 

-* --fixctime
+  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, 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.

 
 

-  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.
+* --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.

 
 # 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://ikiwiki.info/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/mdwn2man?root=ikiwiki&view=markup).  Edit with care