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+While ikiwiki is primarily a wiki compiler, which generates static html pages, it does use CGI for two important wiki features, online page editing and the [[RecentChanges]] display.
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+To enable CGI, you need to create and install an iniwiki.cgi wrapper. [[Setup]] explains how to do this.
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