X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/7a1e12675ec5f1ea605d4de06a0b82079073fb20..d343748126ba933cb565cd218d83d98c7b9ccaff:/doc/usage.mdwn diff --git a/doc/usage.mdwn b/doc/usage.mdwn index 011cf53a2..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. @@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in. 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. @@ -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 @@ -88,14 +119,22 @@ These options configure the wiki. * --notify Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running - ikiwiki as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook. + ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook. * --rcs=svn, --no-rcs Enable or disable use of a revision control system. - If you use svn ([[Subversion]]), the `source` directory is assumed to be - a working copy, and is automatically updated before building the wiki. + If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be + a [[Subversion]] working copy. + + 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 @@ -122,10 +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. @@ -134,7 +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 @@ -144,7 +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 @@ -164,8 +217,8 @@ These options configure the wiki. * --plugin name - Enables the use of the specified plugin in the wiki. See [[plugins]] for - details. Note that plugin names are case sensative. + Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki. + Note that plugin names are case sensative. * --disable-plugin name @@ -177,14 +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