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Command-Line Interface
Since v0.21, Pepperminty Wiki now has a command-line interface. This can be used for a number of maintenance tasks - including (but not limited to) updating the search index and the didyoumean typo correction engine index (the latter of which can currently only be updated through the CLI, but as it stabilises this should change).
To use it, you should be comfortable with the terminal (or command-line). If you do not intend to use it or don't have command-line access to your web server, you should disable it by unchecking the cli_enabled setting in the master control settings, or setting it to false in peppermint.json.
First, cd to be next to the index.php file of your wiki (if you have multiple wikis with symlinks to index.php - which is fully supported by the way - then you should cd to be next to the symlink of the target wiki`):
cd path/to/directory
Now you can interact with Pepperminty Wiki's CLI. Display the basic help text like so:
php index.php
This will tell you about a number of different subcommands, but the 2 you'll probably be interested in are shell and exec. The shell command is the one you'll want first. Use it like this:
php index.php shell
This takes you to the Pepperminty Wiki shell. Type help here and hit enter to show the list of shell commands supported. To try out a command, simply type it and hit enter to display usage information. For example, type search to display the available search subcommands.
A subcommand of the search command is rebuild, which rebuilds the search index fromt he command line. You can call it like so:
search rebuild
After every command has executed, the following will be displayed:
<<<< 0 <<<<
This is an indicator of the exit code of the last command executed. The exit code functions the same as you may be familiar with in your favourite regular shell, such as bash or zsh. An exit code of 0 indicates success.
The reason for this is the exec subcommand of main index.php. Once you are back in your regular shell terminal (type exit to exit the Pepperminty Wiki shell), type this:
php index.php exec help
The exec command can be used to call commands from the Pepperminty Wiki shell directly in from your main shell (e.g. bash, zsh, fish, etc.). As another example, here's how you'd rebuild the search index with the exec subcommand:
php index.php exec search rebuild