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 # SYNOPSIS
 
 
 # SYNOPSIS
 

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

 
 # 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`.
+`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
+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.
+# MODE OPTIONS

 
 

-* --wikiname
+These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.

 
 

-The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
+* --refresh

 
 

-* --verbose
-
-Be vebose about what it's doing.
+  Refresh the wiki, updating any changes pages. This is the default
+  behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.

 
 * --rebuild
 
 
 * --rebuild
 

-Force a rebuild of all pages.
+  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]

 
 

-* --wrapper
+  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.

 
 

-Generate a [[wrapper]] binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by the other options, using the specified input files and `destination` directory.
+  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.
+
+  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.
+
+  [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
+
+# CONFIG OPTIONS
+
+These options configure the wiki.
+
+* --wikiname

 
 

-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]].
+  The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".

 
 

-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.
+* --fixctime
+
+  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.
+
+* --templatedir
+
+  Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
+  Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
+
+* --wrappermode mode
+
+  Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.

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

 
 

-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/
 
 
 * --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
 
 
 * --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.

 
 

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

 
 

-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.
+  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.
+
+* --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.
+
+* --verbose
+
+  Be vebose about what it's doing.

 
 # AUTHOR
 
 
 # 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