X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/30afedcfe2799bb6cc4bf329bd273ad9d8dd6da3..a1519df7dd7b3619485171230d1a9f167b8e1fae:/doc/usage.mdwn?ds=inline diff --git a/doc/usage.mdwn b/doc/usage.mdwn index eec1856a7..47716696f 100644 --- a/doc/usage.mdwn +++ b/doc/usage.mdwn @@ -11,7 +11,8 @@ ikiwiki --setup configfile # 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`. +`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. @@ -55,16 +56,44 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in. In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl program that can call ikiwiki internal functions. + [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file. + 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. + If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with + --setup. - [[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 [[plugins/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. + +* --render file + + Renders a single file, outputting the resulting html. Does not save state, + so this cannot be used for building whole wikis, but it is useful for + previewing an edited file at the command line. Generally used in conjunction + with --setup to load in a wiki's setup: + + ikiwiki --setup ~/ikiwiki.setup --render foo.mdwn + +* --version + + Print ikiwiki version number. # CONFIG OPTIONS -These options configure the wiki. +These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional +configuration options of their own. * --wikiname @@ -73,13 +102,15 @@ These options configure the wiki. * --templatedir Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in. - Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`. + 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`. + source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki` or another + location as configured at build time. * --wrappermode mode @@ -100,6 +131,11 @@ These options configure the wiki. If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the [[git]] repository. + If you use tla, the `source` directory is assumed to be a tla import. + + If you use mercurial, the `source` directory is assumed to be the + [[mercurial]] repository. + 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. @@ -125,10 +161,24 @@ These options configure the wiki. * --rss, --norss - If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline + If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate RSS feeds for pages that inline a [[blog]]. -* --url http://url/ +* --atom, --noatom + + If atom is set, ikiwiki will generate Arom feeds for pages that inline + a [[blog]]. + +* --pingurl url + + 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 + + This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one + url to ping. + +* --url url Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode. @@ -137,7 +187,7 @@ These options configure the wiki. 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://url/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 @@ -147,7 +197,7 @@ These options configure the wiki. Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email. -* --diffurl http://url/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]] +* --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 @@ -180,14 +230,35 @@ These options configure the wiki. Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of every page. The links are enabled by default. +* --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. + * --timeformat format Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the strftime(3) function. -* --verbose +* --verbose, --no-verbose + + Be verbose 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. + +* --sslcookie - Be vebose about what is being done. + Only send cookies over an SSL connection. This should prevent them being + intercepted. If you enable this option then you must run at least the + CGI portion of ikiwiki over SSL. * --getctime