X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/773731743df52d2ef2d8ce93c095be981bb9bfc8..ffc0be87d7eca4de4dbc91d740d36b7b40bfa911:/doc/usage.mdwn diff --git a/doc/usage.mdwn b/doc/usage.mdwn index debe04e1f..f2f0fba9a 100644 --- a/doc/usage.mdwn +++ b/doc/usage.mdwn @@ -4,15 +4,14 @@ ikiwiki - a wiki compiler # SYNOPSIS -ikiwiki [options] source templates destination +ikiwiki [options] source destination ikiwiki --setup configfile # DESCRIPTION `ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static html pages for a wiki, from -`source` in the [[MarkDown]] language, using the specified html `templates` -and writes it out to `destination`. +`source` in the [[MarkDown]] language, and writes it out to `destination`. # OPTIONS @@ -31,6 +30,23 @@ flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose. 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 + + 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`. + * --wrapper [file] Generate a [[wrapper]] binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by @@ -40,9 +56,7 @@ flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose. 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]]. - Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters - except for --params, which will make it print out the parameters it would - run ikiwiki with. + Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters. * --wrappermode mode @@ -62,6 +76,11 @@ flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose. By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki. +* --rss, --norss + + If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline + a blog. + * --cgi Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying [[RecentChanges]]. @@ -94,15 +113,21 @@ flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose. Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing. May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list. +* --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. + May be specified multiple times for multiple admins. + * --setup configfile In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl - program that can call ikiwiki internal functions. Uses of this are - various; the normal one is to automatically generate wrappers for a - wiki based on data in a config file. - - Note that the wiki will be (re)built as part of the setup process to - ensure that any changes take effect. + 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 also pass the --refresh option, ikiwiki will instead just refresh + the wiki described in the setup file. [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.