`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
+# MODE OPTIONS
- The name of the wiki, default is "wiki".
+These options control the mode that ikiwiki is operating in.
-* --verbose
+* --refresh
- Be vebose about what it's doing.
+ Refresh the wiki, updating any changes pages. This is the default
+ behavior so you don't normally need to specify it.
* --rebuild
Force a rebuild of all pages.
-* --fixctime
+* --cgi
- 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.
+ Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and
+ supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying
+ [[RecentChanges]].
-* --templatedir
-
- Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
- Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
+ 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]
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".
+
+* --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.
+
+* --templatedir
+
+ Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in.
+ Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`.
+
* --wrappermode mode
Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline
a blog.
-* --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.
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.
+* --verbose
- [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file.
+ Be vebose about what it's doing.
# AUTHOR
sipb-www / ikiwiki.git / blobdiff