* Patch from James Westby to allow a description to be set for rss feeds.

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 # DESCRIPTION
 
 `ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static html pages for a wiki, from
 # 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.
 
 
 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.
 
 
 * --rebuild
 
   Force a rebuild of all pages.
 

-* --refresh
-
-  Refresh the wiki, updating any changes pages. This is the default
-  behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.
-
-* --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]
 
 
 * --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
   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.
 
 
   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 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.
+
+* --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.
 
 * --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.

 
 

-  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. 
+  If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be
+  a [[Subversion]] working copy.

 
 

-  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.
+  If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the
+  [[git]] repository.

 
 

-  Subversion is enabled by default.
+  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.
+
+  svn is enabled by default.
+
+* --svnrepo /svn/wiki
+
+  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
 
 
 * --anonok, --noanonok
 


@@ -79,29 +146,37 @@ flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
 * --rss, --norss
 
   If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
 * --rss, --norss
 
   If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline

-  a blog.
+  a [[blog]].

 
 

-* --cgi
+* --pingurl url

 
 

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

 
 

-  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.
+  This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
+  url to ping.

 
 

-* --url http://someurl/
+* --url url

 
   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://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.
 
 
   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
 
   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


@@ -119,17 +194,46 @@ flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
   Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
   May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
 
   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.
+  Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki. 
+  Note that plugin names are case sensative.

 
 

-  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.
+* --disable-plugin name

 
 

-  [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
+  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.
+
+* --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
 
 
 # AUTHOR