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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, 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.

  • --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 [[Subversion]] [[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 [[Subversion]] [[post-commit]] hook.

  • --svn, --nosvn

    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.

    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.

    Subversion 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]].

  • --url http://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.

  • --sanitize

    Enable [[HtmlSanitization]] of wiki content. On by default, disable with --no-sanitize.

  • --plugin name

    Enables the use of the specified plugin in the wiki. See [[plugins]] for details. Note that plugin names are case sensative.

  • --hyperestraier

    Enables use of the [[HyperEstraier]] search engine for full test page searches.

  • --verbose

    Be vebose about what is being done.

  • --fixctime

    Pull last changed time for all pages 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.

AUTHOR

Joey Hess joey@kitenet.net

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