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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`.
# 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.
* --templatedir
Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
* --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/\[[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.
* --diffurl http://svn.someurl/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.
* --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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