add support for generating per-page rss feeds

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / usage.mdwn

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@@ -4,15 +4,19 @@ ikiwiki - a wiki compiler
 
 # SYNOPSIS
 
-ikiwiki [options] source templates destination
+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, using the specified html `templates` and writes it out to `destination`.
+`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.
+Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean
+flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose.
 
 * --wikiname
 
@@ -26,13 +30,25 @@ Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean flags suc
 
   Force a rebuild of all pages.
 
-* --wrapper
+* --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]].
 
-  Generate a [[wrapper]] binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by the other options, using the specified input files and `destination` directory.
+  Note that the generated wrapper will ignore all command line parameters.
 
-  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]].
+* --wrappermode mode
 
-  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.
+  Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it.
 
 * --svn, --nosvn
 
@@ -48,6 +64,12 @@ Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean flags suc
 
   By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki.
 
+* --rss, --norss
+
+  If rss is set, along with every html page rendered by ikiwiki, an rss
+  page will also be rendered, to allow users to subscribe to a rss feed of
+  changes to that page.
+
 * --cgi
 
   Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying [[RecentChanges]].
@@ -62,10 +84,44 @@ Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean flags suc
 
   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
+* --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 page history browsing. In the url, "[[]]" is replaced with the page to browse. It's common to use [[ViewCVS]] for this.
+  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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+Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>
+
+Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care