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@@ -10,15 +10,16 @@ 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`.
+`ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static HTML pages for a wiki, from
+`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.
 
 # MODE OPTIONS
 
-These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
+These options control the mode that ikiwiki operates in.
 
 * --refresh
 
@@ -29,11 +30,30 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
 
   Force a rebuild of all pages.
 
+* --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.
+  If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with
+  --setup.
+
+* --dumpsetup configfile
+
+  Causes ikiwiki to write to the specified config file, dumping out
+  its current configuration.
+
+* --wrappers
+
+  If used with --setup --refresh, this makes it also update any configured
+  wrappers.
+
 * --cgi
 
   Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
-  supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying
-  [[RecentChanges]].
+  supports editing pages, signing in, and registration.
 
   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
@@ -41,100 +61,164 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
 
 * --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
-  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.
 
-* --setup configfile
+* --aggregate
 
-  In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
-  program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
+  If the [[plugins/aggregate]] plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll
+  configured feeds and save new posts to the srcdir.
 
-  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.
+  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]] is an example of such a config file.
+	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.
 
 # CONFIG OPTIONS
 
-These options configure the wiki.
+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".
 
-* --fixctime
-
-  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.
-
 * --templatedir
 
-  Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
-  Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
+  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.
+
+  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
+  ikiwiki. Old versions of templates do not always work with new ikiwiki
+  versions.
 
 * --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
 
   Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
 
-* --svn, --nosvn
+* --wrappergroup group
+
+  Specify what unix group the wrapper should be owned by. This can be
+  useful if the wrapper needs to be owned by a group other than the default.
+  For example, if a project has a repository with multiple committers with
+  access controlled by a group, it makes sense for the ikiwiki wrappers
+  to run setgid to that group.
+
+* --rcs=svn|git|.., --no-rcs
 
-  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. 
+  Enable or disable use of a [[revision_control_system|rcs]].
 
-  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.
+  The `source` directory will be assumed to be a working copy, or clone, or
+  whatever the revision control system you select uses.
 
-  Subversion is enabled by default.
+  In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled, pages edited via
+  the web will be committed.
 
-* --anonok, --noanonok
+  No revision control is enabled by default.
 
-  If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
+* --svnrepo /svn/wiki
 
-  By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
+  Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki.
+
+* --svnpath trunk
+
+  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. If your wiki is rooted at the top of the repository,
+  set svnpath to "".
 
 * --rss, --norss
 
-  If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
-  a blog.
+  If rss is set, ikiwiki will default to generating RSS feeds for pages
+  that inline a [[blog]].
+
+* --allowrss
+
+  If allowrss is set, and rss is not set, ikiwiki will not default to
+  generating RSS feeds, but setting `rss=yes` in the inline directive can
+  override this default and generate a feed.
+
+* --atom, --noatom
+
+  If atom is set, ikiwiki will default to generating Atom feeds for pages
+  that inline a [[blog]].
+
+* --allowatom
+
+  If allowatom is set, and rss is not set, ikiwiki will not default to
+  generating Atom feeds, but setting `atom=yes` in the inline directive can
+  override this default and generate a feed.
+
+* --pingurl URL
 
-* --url http://someurl/
+  Set this to the URL of 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
 
-  Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
+  This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one
+  URL to ping.
 
-* --cgiurl http://someurl/ikiwiki.cgi
+* --url URL
 
-  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 wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
 
-* --historyurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
+* --cgiurl http://example.org/ikiwiki.cgi
 
-  Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
+  Specifies the URL to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when
+  building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
+
+* --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.
+  [[ViewVC]] for this.
+
+* --adminemail you@example.org
 
-* --diffurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
+  Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
 
-  Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
+* --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
   revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
-  [[ViewCVS]] for this.
+  [[ViewVC]] for this.
 
 * --exclude regexp
 
@@ -143,21 +227,113 @@ These options configure the wiki.
 
 * --adminuser name
 
-  Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
-  Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
+  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.
 
-* --hyperestraier
+  For an openid user specify the full URL of the login, including "http://".
+
+* --plugin name
+
+  Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki. 
+  Note that plugin names are case sensitive.
+
+* --disable-plugin name
+
+  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
+  strftime(3) function.
+
+* --verbose, --no-verbose
+
+  Be verbose about what is being done.
+
+* --syslog, --no-syslog
+
+  Log to syslog(3).
+
+* --usedirs, --no-usedirs
+
+  Toggle creating output files named page/index.html (default) instead of page.html.
+
+* --prefix-directives, --no-prefix-directives
+
+  Toggle new '!'-prefixed syntax for preprocessor directives.  ikiwiki currently
+  defaults to --no-prefix-directives.
+
+* --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode
+
+  Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script,
+  without a web server.
+
+* --sslcookie
+
+  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
+
+  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, such as 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.
+
+* --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.
+
+# ENVIRONMENT
+
+* CC
 
-  Enables use of the [[HyperEstraier]] search engine for full test page
-  searches.
+  This controls what C compiler is used to build wrappers. Default is 'cc'.
 
-* --verbose
+# SEE ALSO
 
-  Be vebose about what it's doing.
+* [[ikiwiki-mass-rebuild]](8)
+* [[ikiwiki-update-wikilist]](1)
+* [[ikiwiki-transition]](1)
 
 # AUTHOR
 
-Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
+Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>
 
-Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care
+Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page via [mdwn2man](http://git.ikiwiki.info/?p=ikiwiki;a=blob;f=mdwn2man;hb=HEAD).  Edit with care