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 is operating in.
--refresh
Refresh the wiki, updating any changed pages. This is the default behavior so you don't normally need to specify it. If used with -setup also updates any configured wrappers.
--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
anddestination
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.
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.
CONFIG OPTIONS
These options configure the wiki.
--wikiname
The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
--templatedir
Specify the directory that the page templates are stored in. Default is
/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates
.--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
.--wrappermode mode
Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
--notify
Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running ikiwiki as a post-commit hook.
--rcs=svn, --no-rcs
Enable or disable use of a revision control system.
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.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.
--svnrepo /svn/wiki
Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required for using --notify with subversion.
--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
If anonok is set, it will allow anonymous web users, who have not signed in, to make changes to the wiki.
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.
--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.
--cgiurl http://url/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 http://url/trunk/[[file]]?root=wiki
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.
--adminemail you@yourhost
Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email.
--diffurl http://url/trunk/[[file]]?root=wiki&r1=[[r1]]&r2=[[r2]]
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.
--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 in the wiki. Note that plugin names are case sensative.
--disable-plugin name
Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber" to do away with html sanitization.
--discussion, --no-discussion
Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of every page. The links are enabled by default.
--timeformat format
Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the strftime(3) function.
--verbose
Be vebose about what is being done.
--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, for example 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.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess joey@kitenet.net
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