X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/4b36dee35a55b08d6d6f3bb3840220a4956f2540..a1519df7dd7b3619485171230d1a9f167b8e1fae:/doc/usage.mdwn diff --git a/doc/usage.mdwn b/doc/usage.mdwn index 048072df6..47716696f 100644 --- a/doc/usage.mdwn +++ b/doc/usage.mdwn @@ -56,10 +56,12 @@ 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. - - [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file. + If you only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with + --setup. * --wrappers @@ -68,20 +70,29 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in. * --aggregate - If the aggregate plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll configured - feeds and save new posts to the srcdir. + 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. Note that plugins can add additional +These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional configuration options of their own. * --wikiname @@ -91,13 +102,15 @@ configuration options of their own. * --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 @@ -118,6 +131,11 @@ configuration options of their own. 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. @@ -143,7 +161,12 @@ configuration options of their own. * --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]]. + +* --atom, --noatom + + If atom is set, ikiwiki will generate Arom feeds for pages that inline a [[blog]]. * --pingurl url @@ -207,20 +230,36 @@ configuration options of their own. 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 vebose about what is being done. + 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 + + 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