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NAME

ikiwiki - a wiki compiler

SYNOPSIS

ikiwiki [options] source templates destination

ikiwiki --setup configfile

DESCRIPTION

ikiwiki is a wiki compiler. It builds static html pages for a wiki, from source in the [[MarkDown]] language, using the specified html templates and writes it out to destination.

OPTIONS

Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.

  • --wikiname

    The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".

  • --verbose

    Be vebose about what it's doing.

  • --rebuild

    Force a rebuild of all pages.

  • --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 except for --params, which will make it print out the parameters it would run ikiwiki with.

  • --wrappermode mode

    Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.

  • --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.

  • --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.

  • --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 to generate a wrapper. The wrapper will generally need to run suid 6755 to the user who owns the source and destination directories.

  • --url http://someurl/

    Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode.

  • --cgiurl http://someurl/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://svn.someurl/trunk/[[]]?root=wiki

    Specifies the url to link to for page history browsing. In the url, "[[]]" is replaced with the page to browse. 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.

  • --setup configfile

    In setup mode, ikiwiki reads the config file, which is really a perl program that can call ikiwiki internal functions. Uses of this are various; the normal one is to automatically generate wrappers for a wiki based on data in a config file.

    Note that the wiki will be (re)built as part of the setup process to ensure that any changes take effect.

    [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.

AUTHOR

Joey Hess joey@kitenet.net

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