-The best way to run ikiwiki in a [[Subversion]] post-commit hook is using
-a wrapper, which can be generated using `ikiwiki --gen-wrapper`.
+If your wiki is kept in [[revision_control|rcs]], a post-commit hook is run
+every time you commit a change to your repository. To make the wiki be
+updated each time a commit is made, it can be run from (or as) a
+post-commit hook.
-First, set up the subversion checkout that ikiwiki will update and compile
-into your wiki at each subversion commit. Run ikiwiki a few times by hand
-to get a feel for it. Now, generate the wrapper by adding "--gen-wrapper"
-to whatever command line you've been using to run ikiwiki. For example:
-
- ~/wiki-checkout> ikiwiki . ~/public_html/wiki
- ~/wiki-checkout> ikiwiki . ~/public_html/wiki --gen-wrapper
- successfully generated ikiwiki-wrap
+The best way to run ikiwiki in a post-commit hook is using a wrapper, which
+ikiwiki is usually configured to generate using a setup file.
The generated wrapper is a C program that is designed to safely be made
suid if necessary. It's hardcoded to run ikiwiki with the settings
-specified when you ran --gen-wrapper, and can only be used to update and
+specified when you ran --wrapper, and can only be used to update and
compile that one checkout into the specified html directory.
-Now, put the wrapper somewhere convenient, and create a post-commit hook
-script in your subversion repository for the wiki. All the post-commit
-hook has to do is run ikiwiki-wrap (with no parameters).
-
-Depending on your Subversion setup, the post-commit hook might end up
-getting called by users who have write access to subversion, but not to
+Depending on your setup, the post-commit hook might end up
+getting called by users who have write access to the repository, but not to
your wiki checkout and html directory. If so, you can safely make
-ikiwiki-wrap suid to a user who can write there (*not* to root!). You might
+the wrapper suid to a user who can write there (*not* to root!). You might
want to read [[Security]] first.
+
+[[Setup]] explains setting this up in more detail.