X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/011603520f87a47f198306677d0b8a50ed2867e7..5f687c72b61550ef1fc20f438e5d66ce56e4f152:/doc/usage.mdwn diff --git a/doc/usage.mdwn b/doc/usage.mdwn index 2c9772574..aba213f21 100644 --- a/doc/usage.mdwn +++ b/doc/usage.mdwn @@ -86,6 +86,14 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki operates in. ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki.setup --render foo.mdwn +* --post-commit + + Run in post-commit mode, the same as if called by a [[post-commit]] hook. + This is probably only useful when using ikiwiki with a web server on one host + and a repository on another, to allow the repository's real post-commit + hook to ssh to the web server host and manually run ikiwiki to update + the web site. + * --version Print ikiwiki's version number. @@ -101,8 +109,8 @@ configuration options of their own. * --templatedir - Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in. Default - is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as configured at + Specify the directory that the page [[templates|wikitemplates]] 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. @@ -117,7 +125,7 @@ configuration options of their own. Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it. -* --notify +* --notify, --no-notify Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook. @@ -152,7 +160,8 @@ configuration options of their own. Specify the path inside your svn repository where the wiki is located. This defaults to `trunk`; change it if your wiki is at some other path - inside the repository. + inside the repository. If your wiki is rooted at the top of the repository, + set svnpath to "". * --rss, --norss @@ -220,17 +229,34 @@ configuration options of their own. Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber" to do away with HTML sanitization. +* --libdir directory + + 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". + * --discussion, --no-discussion Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of every page. The links are enabled by default. +* --numbacklinks n + + Controls how many backlinks should be displayed at the bottom of a page. + Excess backlinks will be hidden in a popup. Default is 10. Set to 0 to + disable this feature. + * --userdir subdir Optionally, allows links to users of the wiki to link to pages inside a subdirectory of the wiki. The default is to link to pages in the toplevel directory of the wiki. +* --htmlext html + + Configures the extension used for generated html files. Default is "html". + * --timeformat format Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the @@ -244,6 +270,10 @@ configuration options of their own. Log to syslog(3). +* --usedirs, --no-usedirs + + Toggle creating output files named page/index.html (default) instead of page.html. + * --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script, @@ -263,8 +293,15 @@ configuration options of their own. Subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages. +* --set var=value + + This allows setting an arbitrary configuration variable, the same as if it + were set via a configuration 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. + # AUTHOR -Joey Hess +Joey Hess -Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page via [mdwn2man](http://ikiwiki.kitenet.net/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/mdwn2man?root=ikiwiki&view=markup). Edit with care +Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page via [mdwn2man](http://ikiwiki.info/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/mdwn2man?root=ikiwiki&view=markup). Edit with care