X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/03020563327db62bcbecadea700f5f534158cef3..aefe5dd9cb270bd4fceb7922f0a0b09263d211ee:/doc/usage.mdwn diff --git a/doc/usage.mdwn b/doc/usage.mdwn index 3102245b2..2b104bcdb 100644 --- a/doc/usage.mdwn +++ b/doc/usage.mdwn @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ ikiwiki --setup configfile # DESCRIPTION `ikiwiki` is a wiki compiler. It builds static HTML pages for a wiki, from -`source` in the [[Markdown]] language (or others), and writes it out to +`source` in the [[ikiwiki/Markdown]] language (or others), and writes it out to `destination`. Note that most options can be shortened to single letters, and boolean @@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ These options control the mode that ikiwiki operates in. * --cgi Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and - supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying - [[RecentChanges]]. + supports editing pages, signing in, and registration. 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 @@ -109,11 +108,16 @@ configuration options of their own. * --templatedir - Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in. Default - is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as configured at + Specify the directory that the page [[templates|wikitemplates]] are stored in. + Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as configured at build time. If the templatedir is changed, missing templates will still be searched for in the default location as a fallback. + Note that if you choose to copy and modify ikiwiki's templates, you will need + to be careful to keep them up to date when upgrading to new versions of + ikiwiki. Old versions of templates do not always work with new ikiwiki + versions. + * --underlaydir Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory. @@ -125,52 +129,58 @@ configuration options of their own. Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it. -* --notify, --no-notify - - Enable email notification of commits. This should be used when running - ikiwiki as a [[post-commit]] hook. - -* --rcs=svn, --no-rcs - - Enable or disable use of a revision control system. +* --wrappergroup group - If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be - a [[Subversion]] working copy. + Specify what unix group the wrapper should be owned by. This can be + useful if the wrapper needs to be owned by a group other than the default. + For example, if a project has a repository with multiple committers with + access controlled by a group, it makes sense for the ikiwiki wrappers + to run setgid to that group. - If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the - [[git]] repository. +* --rcs=svn|git|.., --no-rcs - If you use tla, the `source` directory is assumed to be a tla import. + Enable or disable use of a [[revision_control_system|rcs]]. - If you use mercurial, the `source` directory is assumed to be the - [[mercurial]] repository. + The `source` directory will be assumed to be a working copy, or clone, or + whatever the revision control system you select uses. In [[CGI]] mode, with a revision control system enabled, pages edited via - the web will be committed. Also, the [[RecentChanges]] link will be placed - on pages. + the web will be committed. No revision control is enabled by default. * --svnrepo /svn/wiki - Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. This is required - for using --notify with [[Subversion]]. + Specify the location of the svn repository for the wiki. * --svnpath trunk Specify the path inside your svn repository where the wiki is located. This defaults to `trunk`; change it if your wiki is at some other path - inside the repository. + inside the repository. If your wiki is rooted at the top of the repository, + set svnpath to "". * --rss, --norss - If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate RSS feeds for pages that inline - a [[blog]]. + If rss is set, ikiwiki will default to generating RSS feeds for pages + that inline a [[ikiwiki/blog]]. + +* --allowrss + + If allowrss is set, and rss is not set, ikiwiki will not default to + generating RSS feeds, but setting `rss=yes` in the blog can override + this default and generate a feed. * --atom, --noatom - If atom is set, ikiwiki will generate Atom feeds for pages that inline - a [[blog]]. + If atom is set, ikiwiki will default to generating Atom feeds for pages + that inline a [[ikiwiki/blog]]. + +* --allowatom + + If allowatom is set, and rss is not set, ikiwiki will not default to + generating Atom feeds, but setting `atom=yes` in the blog can override + this default and generate a feed. * --pingurl URL @@ -214,10 +224,13 @@ configuration options of their own. * --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. + Specifies a username of a user (or, if openid is enabled, an openid) + who has the powers of a wiki admin. Currently allows locking of any page, + and [[banning|banned_users]] users; other powers may be added later. May be specified multiple times for multiple admins. + For an openid user specify the full URL of the login, including "http://". + * --plugin name Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki. @@ -228,17 +241,34 @@ configuration options of their own. Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber" to do away with HTML sanitization. +* --libdir directory + + Makes ikiwiki look in the specified directory first, before the regular + locations when loading library files and plugins. For example, if you set + libdir to "/home/you/.ikiwiki/", you can install a Foo.pm plugin as + "/home/you/.ikiwiki/IkiWiki/Plugin/Foo.pm". + * --discussion, --no-discussion Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of every page. The links are enabled by default. +* --numbacklinks n + + Controls how many backlinks should be displayed at the bottom of a page. + Excess backlinks will be hidden in a popup. Default is 10. Set to 0 to + disable this feature. + * --userdir subdir Optionally, allows links to users of the wiki to link to pages inside a subdirectory of the wiki. The default is to link to pages in the toplevel directory of the wiki. +* --htmlext html + + Configures the extension used for generated html files. Default is "html". + * --timeformat format Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the @@ -252,6 +282,15 @@ configuration options of their own. Log to syslog(3). +* --usedirs, --no-usedirs + + Toggle creating output files named page/index.html (default) instead of page.html. + +* --prefix-directives, --no-prefix-directives + + Toggle new '!'-prefixed syntax for preprocessor directives. ikiwiki currently + defaults to --no-prefix-directives. + * --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script, @@ -271,6 +310,25 @@ configuration options of their own. Subversion checkout. It is unoptimised and quite slow. It is best used with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages. +* --set var=value + + This allows setting an arbitrary configuration variable, the same as if it + were set via a configuration file. Since most options can be configured + using command-line switches, you will rarely need to use this, but it can be + useful for the odd option that lacks a command-line switch. + +# ENVIRONMENT + +* CC + + This controls what C compiler is used to build wrappers. Default is 'cc'. + +# SEE ALSO + +* [[ikiwiki-mass-rebuild]](8) +* [[ikiwiki-update-wikilist]](1) +* [[ikiwiki-transition]](1) + # AUTHOR Joey Hess