ikiwiki [options] source destination
-ikiwiki --setup setupfile
+ikiwiki --setup setupfile [options]
# DESCRIPTION
`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.
+Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, boolean
+flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose, and
+options such as --verbose can also be spelled like -verbose.
# MODE OPTIONS
* --refresh
Refresh the wiki, updating any changed pages. This is the default
- behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.
+ behavior if no other mode action is specified (but note that --setup is
+ a mode action, and has different default behavior).
* --rebuild
* --setup setupfile
- 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 setup file, and rebuild the wiki.
+ Load options from the given setup file. If no other mode action is specified,
+ generate wrappers and rebuild the wiki, as if --rebuild --wrappers were used.
If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with
--setup.
+* --changesetup setupfile
+
+ Reads the setup file, adds any configuration changes specified by other
+ options, and writes the new configuration back to the setup file. Also
+ updates any configured wrappers. In this mode, the wiki is not fully
+ rebuilt, unless you also add --rebuild.
+
+ Example, to enable some plugins:
+
+ ikiwiki --changesetup ~/ikiwiki.setup --plugin goodstuff --plugin calendar
+
* --dumpsetup setupfile
Causes ikiwiki to write to the specified setup file, dumping out
If used with --setup --refresh, this makes it also update any configured
wrappers.
+* --clean
+
+ This makes ikiwiki clean up by removing any files it generated in the
+ `destination` directory, as well as any configured wrappers, and the
+ `.ikiwiki` state directory. This is mostly useful if you're running
+ ikiwiki in a Makefile to build documentation and want a corresponding
+ `clean` target.
+
* --cgi
Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
* --templatedir dir
- Specify the directory that the page [[templates|wikitemplates]] are stored in.
+ Specify the directory that [[templates|templates]] 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.
+ be searched for in the default location as a fallback. Templates can also be
+ placed in the "templates/" subdirectory of the srcdir.
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
Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
+* --include regexp
+
+ Specifies a rexexp of source files, that would normally be excluded,
+ but that you wish to include in processing.
+ May be specified multiple times to add to include list.
+
* --adminuser name
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.
+ and [[banning|banned_users]] users, as well as powers granted by
+ enabled plugins (such as [[moderating comments|plugins/moderatedcomments]]
+ and [[plugins/websetup]]. May be specified multiple times for multiple
+ admins.
For an openid user specify the full URL of the login, including "http://".
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".
+ libdir to "/home/you/.ikiwiki/", you can install a foo.pm plugin as
+ "/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/foo.pm".
* --discussion, --no-discussion
intercepted. If you enable this option then you must run at least the
CGI portion of ikiwiki over SSL.
-* --getctime
+* --gettime, --no-gettime
- Pull creation 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
- VCS checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used
- with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages.
+ Extract creation and modification times for each new page from the
+ the revision control's log. This is done automatically when building a
+ wiki for the first time, so you normally do not need to use this option.
* --set var=value
This allows setting an arbitrary configuration variable, the same as if it
- were set via a setup 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.
+ were set via a setup file. Since most commonly used options can be
+ configured using command-line switches, you will rarely need to use this.
+
+* --set-yaml var=value
+
+ This is like --set, but it allows setting configuration variables that
+ use complex data structures, by passing in a YAML document.
# EXAMPLES
* ikiwiki --setup my.setup
- Completly (re)build the wiki using the specified setup file.
+ Completely (re)build the wiki using the specified setup file.
* ikiwiki --setup my.setup --refresh
* ikiwiki --setup my.setup --refresh --wrappers
- Refresh the wiki, including regnerating all wrapper programs,
+ Refresh the wiki, including regenerating all wrapper programs,
but do not rebuild all pages. Useful if you have changed something
in the setup file that does not need a full wiki rebuild to update
- all pages, but that you want to immediatly take effect.
+ all pages, but that you want to immediately take effect.
+
+* ikiwiki --rebuild srcdir destdir
+
+ Use srcdir as source and build HTML in destdir, without using a
+ setup file.
+
+* ikiwiki srcdir destdir
+
+ Use srcdir as source to update changed pages' HTML in destdir,
+ without using a setup file.
# ENVIRONMENT
Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>
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