X-Git-Url: https://sipb.mit.edu/gitweb.cgi/ikiwiki.git/blobdiff_plain/4796acdae76a294199e8d8152c3c9ed53db808a2..63f09c7cef0eb10d8051a92ff626bf1b5f29b9b0:/doc/usage.mdwn diff --git a/doc/usage.mdwn b/doc/usage.mdwn index 8efb9a63d..0c7e7d036 100644 --- a/doc/usage.mdwn +++ b/doc/usage.mdwn @@ -4,57 +4,143 @@ 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`. - -# OPTIONS +`source` in the [[MarkDown]] language (or others), and writes it out to +`destination`. 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 changed pages. This is the default + behavior so you don't normally need to specify it. * --rebuild Force a rebuild of all pages. +* --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 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] - Generate a [[wrapper]] binary that is hardcoded to do action specified by + 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]]. + users, as a [[post-commit]] hook, or as a [[CGI]]. + + 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. + + [[ikiwiki.setup]] is an example of such a config file. + +* --wrappers + + If used with --setup --refresh, this makes it also update any configured + wrappers. + +* --aggregate - 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. + If the [[plugins/aggregate]] plugin is enabled, this makes ikiwiki poll + configured feeds and save new posts to the srcdir. + + Note that to rebuild previously aggregated posts, use the --rebuild option + along with this one. --rebuild will also force feeds to be polled even if + they were polled recently. + +* --version + + Print ikiwiki version number. + +# CONFIG OPTIONS + +These options configure the wiki. Note that [[plugins]] can add additional +configuration options of their own. + +* --wikiname + + The name of the wiki, default is "wiki". + +* --templatedir + + Specify the directory that the page [[templates]] are stored in. + Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/templates`, or another location as + configured at build time. + +* --underlaydir + + Specify the directory that is used to underlay the source directory. + Source files will be taken from here unless overridden by a file in the + source directory. Default is `/usr/share/ikiwiki/basewiki` or another + location as configured at build time. * --wrappermode mode Specify a mode to chmod the wrapper to after creating it. -* --svn, --nosvn +* --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. + + If you use svn, the `source` directory is assumed to be + a [[Subversion]] working copy. - 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. + If you use git, the `source` directory is assumed to be a clone of the + [[git]] repository. - 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. + If you use tla, the `source` directory is assumed to be a tla import. - Subversion is enabled by default. + If you use mercurial, the `source` directory is assumed to be the + [[mercurial]] repository. + + 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. + + svn 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]]. + +* --svnpath trunk + + Specify the path inside your svn reporistory where the wiki is located. + This defaults to trunk; change it if your wiki is at some other location + inside the repository. * --anonok, --noanonok @@ -62,36 +148,106 @@ flags such as --verbose can be negated with --no-verbose. By default, anonymous users cannot edit the wiki. -* --cgi +* --rss, --norss + + If rss is set, ikiwiki will generate rss feeds for pages that inline + a [[blog]]. + +* --pingurl url - Enable [[CGI]] mode. In cgi mode ikiwiki runs as a cgi script, and supports editing pages, signing in, registration, and displaying [[RecentChanges]]. + Set this to the url to an XML-RPC service to ping when an RSS feed is + updated. For example, to ping Technorati, use the url + http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping - 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. + This parameter can be specified multiple times to specify more than one + url to ping. -* --url http://someurl/ +* --url url Specifies the url to the wiki. This is a required parameter in [[CGI]] mode. -* --cgiurl http://someurl/ikiwiki.cgi +* --cgiurl http://url/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. + 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 url - 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 page history browsing. In the url, + "\[[file]]" is replaced with the file to browse. It's common to use + [[ViewCVS]] for this. + +* --adminemail you@yourhost + + Specifies the email address that ikiwiki should use for sending email. + +* --diffurl url + + 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. -* --setup configfile +* --adminuser name - 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; one is to automatically generate wrappers for a wiki based on - data in a config file. + 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. + +* --plugin name + + Enables the use of the specified [[plugin|plugins]] in the wiki. + Note that plugin names are case sensative. + +* --disable-plugin name + + Disables use of a plugin. For example "--disable-plugin htmlscrubber" + to do away with html sanitization. + +* --discussion, --no-discussion + + Enables or disables "Discussion" links from being added to the header of + every page. The links are enabled by default. + +* --timeformat format + + Specify how to display the time or date. The format string is passed to the + strftime(3) function. + +* --verbose, --no-verbose + + Be vebose about what is being done. + +* --syslog, --no-syslog + + Log to syslog. + +* --w3mmode, --no-w3mmode + + Enable [[w3mmode]], which allows w3m to use ikiwiki as a local CGI script, + without a web server. + +* --sslcookie + + Only send cookies over an SSL connection. This should prevent them being + intercepted. If you enable this option then you must run at least the + CGI portion of ikiwiki over SSL. + +* --getctime + + Pull last changed time for each new page 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. It is best used + with --rebuild, to force ikiwiki to get the ctime for all pages. # AUTHOR Joey Hess + +Warning: this page is automatically made into ikiwiki's man page, edit with care