3 ikiwiki - a wiki compiler
7 ikiwiki [options] source destination
9 ikiwiki --setup configfile
13 `ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static html pages for a wiki, from
14 `source` in the [[MarkDown]] language, and writes it out to `destination`.
16 Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean
17 flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
21 These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
25 Refresh the wiki, updating any changes pages. This is the default
26 behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.
30 Force a rebuild of all pages.
34 Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
35 supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying
38 To use ikiwiki as a [[CGI]] program you need to use --wrapper or --setup
39 to generate a wrapper. The wrapper will generally need to run suid 6755 to
40 the user who owns the `source` and `destination` directories.
44 Generate a [[wrapper]] binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by
45 the other options, using the specified input files and `destination`
46 directory. The filename to use for the wrapper is optional.
48 The wrapper is designed to be safely made suid and be run by untrusted
49 users, as a [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]].
51 Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
55 In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl
56 program that can call ikiwiki internal functions.
58 The default action when --setup is specified is to automatically generate
59 wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file, and rebuild the wiki.
60 If you also pass the --refresh option, ikiwiki will instead just refresh
61 the wiki described in the setup file.
63 [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
67 These options configure the wiki.
71 The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
75 Pull last changed time for all pages out of the revision control system.
76 This rarely used option provides a way to get the real creation times of
77 items in weblogs, for example when building a wiki from a new subversion
78 checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow.
82 Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
83 Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
87 Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
91 Enable or disable use of [[subversion]]. If subversion is enabled, the `source` directory is assumed to be a working copy, and is automatically updated before building the wiki.
93 In [[CGI]] mode, with subversion enabled pages edited via the web will be committed to subversion. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed on pages.
95 Subversion is enabled by default.
97 * --anonok, --noanonok
99 If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
101 By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
105 If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
108 * --url http://someurl/
110 Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.
112 * --cgiurl http://someurl/ikiwiki.cgi
114 Specifies the url to the ikiwiki [[CGI]] script [[wrapper]]. Required when building the wiki for links to the cgi script to be generated.
116 * --historyurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki
118 Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url,
119 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use
120 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
122 * --diffurl http://svn.someurl/trunk/\[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=\[[r1]]&r2=\[[r2]]
124 Specifies the url to link to for a diff of changes to a page. In the url,
125 "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse, "\[[r1]]" is the old
126 revision of the page, and "\[[r2]]" is the new revision. It's common to use
127 [[ViewCVS]] for this.
131 Specifies a rexexp of source files to exclude from processing.
132 May be specified multiple times to add to exclude list.
136 Specifies a username of a user who has the powers of a wiki admin.
137 Currently allows locking of any page, other powers may be added later.
138 May be specified multiple times for multiple admins.
142 Be vebose about what it's doing.
146 Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
148 Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care