X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/be55f6fd7cf1a251c3977f857a44ee2769e39d8b..3b3278857c748ca62edabdafcd8fb0cf56825726:/doc/usage.mdwn diff --git a/doc/usage.mdwn b/doc/usage.mdwn index 9e260adc2..511bb687a 100644 --- a/doc/usage.mdwn +++ b/doc/usage.mdwn @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ ikiwiki --setup configfile # DESCRIPTION -`ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static html pages for a wiki, from -`source` in the [[MarkDown]] language (or others), and writes it out to +`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 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ 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 @@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in. * --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 @@ -58,8 +57,13 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in. 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. - [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file. +* --dumpsetup configfile + + Causes ikiwiki to write to the specified config file, dumping out + its current configuration. * --wrappers @@ -84,9 +88,17 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in. 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 version number. + Print ikiwiki's version number. # CONFIG OPTIONS @@ -99,9 +111,15 @@ configuration options of their own. * --templatedir - Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in. - Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as - configured at build time. + 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 @@ -114,93 +132,93 @@ configuration options of their own. Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it. -* --notify +* --wrappergroup group - Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running - ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook. + 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, --no-rcs +* --rcs=svn|git|.., --no-rcs - Enable or disable use of a revision control system. + Enable or disable use of a [[revision_control_system|rcs]]. - If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be - a [[Subversion]] working copy. + The `source` directory will be assumed to be a working copy, or clone, or + whatever the revision control system you select uses. - If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the - [[git]] repository. + In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled, pages edited via + the web will be committed. - 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. - - svn is enabled by default. + No revision control is enabled by default. * --svnrepo /svn/wiki - Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required - for using --notify with [[subversion]]. + Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. * --svnpath trunk - Specify the path inside your svn reporistory where the wiki is located. - This defaults to trunk; change it if your wiki is at some other location - inside the repository. - -* --anonok, --noanonok + 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 "". - If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki. +* --rss, --norss - By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki. + If rss is set, ikiwiki will default to generating RSS feeds for pages + that inline a [[ikiwiki/blog]]. -* --rss, --norss +* --allowrss - If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate RSS feeds for pages that inline - a [[blog]]. + If allowrss is set, and rss is not set, ikiwiki will not default to + generating RSS feeds, but setting `rss=yes` in the blog can override + this default and generate a feed. * --atom, --noatom - If atom is set, ikiwiki will generate Arom feeds for pages that inline - a [[blog]]. + If atom is set, ikiwiki will default to generating Atom feeds for pages + that inline a [[ikiwiki/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 blog can override + this default and generate a feed. -* --pingurl url +* --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 + 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 This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one - url to ping. + URL to ping. -* --url url +* --url URL - Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode. + Specifies the URL to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode. -* --cgiurl http://url/ikiwiki.cgi +* --cgiurl http://example.org/ikiwiki.cgi - Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script wrapper. Required when + 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 +* --historyurl URL - Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the 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@yourhost +* --adminemail you@example.org Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email. -* --diffurl url +* --diffurl URL - Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the 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 @@ -209,25 +227,51 @@ configuration options of their own. * --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. + 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 sensative. + 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. + 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 @@ -235,11 +279,20 @@ configuration options of their own. * --verbose, --no-verbose - Be vebose about what is being done. + Be verbose about what is being done. * --syslog, --no-syslog - Log to 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 @@ -256,12 +309,31 @@ configuration options of their own. 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, for example when building a wiki from a new - subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used + 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 + + This controls what C compiler is used to build wrappers. Default is 'cc'. + +# SEE ALSO + +* [[ikiwiki-mass-rebuild]](8) +* [[ikiwiki-update-wikilist]](1) +* [[ikiwiki-transition]](1) + # AUTHOR -Joey Hess +Joey Hess -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://ikiwiki.info/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/mdwn2man?root=ikiwiki&view=markup). Edit with care