# 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`.
-
-# OPTIONS
+`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.
-* --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.
-* --fixctime
+* --cgi
- 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.
+ Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
+ supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying
+ [[RecentChanges]].
-* --templatedir
-
- Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
- Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
+ 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
+ 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.
+* --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.
+
+ [[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
+
+* --version
+
+ Print ikiwiki version number.
+
+# CONFIG OPTIONS
+
+These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
+configuration options of their own.
+
+* --wikiname
+
+ The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
+
+* --templatedir
+
+ Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
+ Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as
+ configured at build time.
+
+* --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` or another
+ location as configured at build time.
+
* --wrappermode mode
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.
+
+ If you use tla, the `source` directory is assumed to be a tla import.
+
+ If you use mercurial, the `source` directory is assumed to be the
+ [[mercurial]] 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.
- 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.
+ svn is enabled by default.
- 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.
+* --svnrepo /svn/wiki
- Subversion is enabled by default.
+ 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
* --rss, --norss
- If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
- a blog.
+ If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate RSS feeds for pages that inline
+ a [[blog]].
-* --cgi
+* --atom, --noatom
+
+ If atom is set, ikiwiki will generate Arom feeds for pages that inline
+ a [[blog]].
- 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 to 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.
+
+* --url 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 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.
-* --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 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
Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
-* --setup configfile
+* --plugin name
- 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.
+ Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki.
+ Note that plugin names are case sensative.
- [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
+* --disable-plugin name
+
+ Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber"
+ to do away with html sanitization.
+
+* --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, --no-verbose
+
+ Be vebose about what is being done.
+
+* --syslog, --no-syslog
+
+ Log to syslog.
+
+* --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
+ with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
# AUTHOR