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# NAME
ikiwiki - a wiki compiler
# SYNOPSIS
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 (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 operates in.
* --refresh
Refresh the wiki, updating any changed pages. This is the default
behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.
* --rebuild
Force a rebuild of all pages.
* --cgi
Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying
[[RecentChanges]].
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
the user who owns the `source` and `destination` directories.
* --wrapper [file]
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 [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
* --setup configfile
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 only want to build any changed pages, you can use --refresh with
--setup.
* --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
* --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. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional
configuration options of their own.
* --wikiname
The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
* --templatedir
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.
* --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` or another
location as configured at build time.
* --wrappermode mode
Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
* --notify, --no-notify
Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running
ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook.
* --rcs=svn|git|.., --no-rcs
Enable or disable use of a [[revision_control_system|rcs]].
The `source` directory will be assumed to be a working copy, or clone, or
whatever the revision control system you select uses.
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.
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|rcs/svn]].
* --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]].
* --atom, --noatom
If atom is set, ikiwiki will generate Atom feeds for pages that inline
a [[blog]].
* --pingurl 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 URL
Specifies the URL to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
* --cgiurl http://example.org/ikiwiki.cgi
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
[[ViewVC]] for this.
* --adminemail you@example.org
Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
* --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
[[ViewVC]] for this.
* --exclude regexp
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.
* --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.
* --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.
# SEE ALSO
* [[ikiwiki-mass-rebuild]](8)
# AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joey@ikiwiki.info>
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
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