DokuWiki comes with a few PHP scripts meant to be executed from the (UNIX) commandline. All those scripts are located in the bin directory.

Usage: dwpage.php [opts] <action>
  
  Utility to help command line Dokuwiki page editing, allow
  pages to be checked out for editing then committed after changes
  
  Normal operation would be;
  
  
  
  ACTIONS
      checkout: see $ dwpage.php --help checkout
      commit: see $ dwpage.php --help commit
      lock: see $ dwpage.php --help lock
  
  OPTIONS
      -h, --help=<action>: get help
          e.g. $ ./dwpage.php -hcommit
          e.g. $ ./dwpage.php --help=commit

Allows you to update the search index.

Usage: indexer.php <options>
  
  Updates the searchindex by indexing all new or changed pages
  when the -c option is given the index is cleared first.
  
  OPTIONS
      -h, --help     show this help and exit
      -c, --clear    clear the index before updating

Usage: wantedpages.php [wiki:namespace]
  
  Outputs a list of wanted pages (pages which have
  internal links but do not yet exist).
  
  If the optional [wiki:namespace] is not provided,
  defaults to the root wiki namespace
  
  OPTIONS
      -h, --help=<action>: get help

I get only this:

$ ./bin/dwpage.php --help
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.7
Content-type: text/html

when I run it at DreamHost. Any ideas?

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Install the command-line interpreter for the php

Debian way:

$# apt-get install php5-cli
$# ...
$# php5 dwpage.php

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Can not be done since Dreamhost users are not root. Is there a way to pass arround this without needing to compile php myself and run everything from my $HOME?

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On Dreamhost you can run it like this:

$ /usr/local/php5/bin/php dwpage.php

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I was getting this:

www-data@samantha:/usr/share/dokuwiki/bin/$ php ./indexer.php
edv:systeme...
Warning: array_keys(): The first argument should be an array in /usr/share/dokuwiki/inc/indexer.php on line 57
Warning: join(): Bad arguments. in /usr/share/dokuwiki/inc/indexer.php on line 57

Turned out to be due to missing metadata. I changed inc/indexer.php as follows:

function idx_getPageWords($page) {
    ...
   if ($conf['deaccent']) {
    $links = p_get_metadata($page, 'relation references', true);
    ...
}

then it seemed to work properly.