# 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`.
+`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`.
+
+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.
+
+* --refresh
+
+ Refresh the wiki, updating any changes 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 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]].
+
+ 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.
-# OPTIONS
+ 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 most options can be shortened to single letters.
+ [[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".
+ The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
-* --verbose
+* --fixctime
-Be vebose about what it's doing.
+ 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.
-* --rebuild
+* --templatedir
-Force a rebuild of all pages.
+ Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
+ Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
-* --wrapper
+* --underlaydir
-Generate a [[wrapper]] binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by the other options, using the specified input files and `destination` directory.
+ 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`.
-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]].
+* --wrappermode mode
-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.
+ Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
* --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.
+ Subversion is enabled by default.
* --anonok, --noanonok
-If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
+ 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.
+ 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]].
-
-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.
+ If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
+ a blog.
* --url http://someurl/
-Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
+ Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
* --cgiurl http://someurl/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
+
+ 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]]
-* --historyurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/[[]]?root=wiki
+ 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.
-Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url, "[[]]" is replaced with the page to browse. It's common to use [[ViewCVS]] for this.
+* --exclude regexp
+
+ Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
+ May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
+
+* --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.
+ May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
+
+* --hyperestraier
+
+ Enables use of the [[HyperEstraier]] search engine for full test page
+ searches.
+
+* --verbose
+
+ Be vebose about what it's doing.
# AUTHOR
-Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
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+Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
+
+Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care