Page actions are applied to wiki pages, as a query string appended to the URL. Security can be applied to all default actions, and script actions with one exception, but not diag actions, through the use of passwords.

Default Actions

?action=attr

displays dialog for setting/changing password of the specified page or group of pages, see passwords, see also $EnablePostAttrClearSession if you do not want to have the session cleared after validating change General use of passwords

?action=browse

display the specified page (default action if no ?action= is present)

?action=crypt

displays a form for generating hashed passwords out of clear text for usage in your config.php

?action=diff

show a change history of the specified page, see page history History of previous edits to a page

?action=download&upname=file.ext

retrieve the page's attachment named file.ext, see $EnableDirectDownload

?action=edit

edit the specified page, see basic editing PmWiki's basic edit syntax

?action=login

prompt visitor for username/password, by default using Site.AuthForm

?action=logout

remove author, password, and login information

?action=print

display the specified page using the skin specified by $ActionSkin['print']

?action=refcount

bring up the reference count form, which allows the user to generate a list of links (all, missing, existing or orphaned) in or from specified groups. See Ref Count Link references counts on pages . Part of the core distribution but must be enabled by the administrator.

?action=search

displays searchbox on current page, see search Targeting and customising search results

?action=search&q=searchterm

performs search with searchterm and displays results on current page

?action=source

show page source

?action=atom

?action=rdf

?action=rss

?action=dc

If web feeds are enabled, returns a syndication feed based on the contents of the page or other options provided by the url, see web feeds Web feed notification of changes

?setprefs=SomeGroup.CustomPreferences

sets cookie to custom preferences page. See site preferences Customisable browser setting preferences: Access keys, edit form

?action=upload

display a form to upload an attachment for the current group, see uploads

Actions enabled by $EnableDiag

The following actions are available only if you set $EnableDiag = 1; in your configuration file. They can be used for debugging and should not be set in a production environment.

?action=ruleset

displays a list of all markups in 3 columns:

• column 1 = markup-name (1. parameter of markup() )
• column 2 = when will rule apply (2. parameter of markup() )
• column 3 = PmWiki's internal sort key (derived from #2)

?action=phpinfo

displays the output of phpinfo() and exits. no page will be processed

• doesn't make use of PmWiki's authorization mechanisms.

?action=diag

displays a dump of all global vars and exits. no page will be processed

• doesn't make use of PmWiki's authorization mechanisms.

Actions enabled by PmWiki Scripts

?action=analyze

see Site Analyzer and Analyze Results

?action=approvesites

see Url approvals Require approval of Url links

• doesn't make use of PmWiki's authorization mechanisms.

Actions enabled by Cookbook recipes

(more information about Custom Actions)

?action=admin

see Cookbook:UserAuth2

?action=backup

see Cookbook:BackupPages

?action=clearsky

see Cookbook:SearchCloud

?action=comment

see Cookbook:CommentBox

?action=comments

see Cookbook:Comments

?action=comment-rss

see Cookbook:CommentDb

?action=convert

see Cookbook:ROEPatterns

?action=converttable

Cookbook:ConvertTable

?action=copy

see Cookbook:MovePage

?action=downloaddeleted

?action=delattach

?action=undelattach

Cookbook:Attachtable

?action=delete

see Cookbook:DeleteAction

?action=discuss

see Cookbook:DiscussionTab

?action=downloadman

see Cookbook:DownloadManager

?action=expirediff

see Cookbook:ExpireDiff

?action=import

see Cookbook:ImportText

?action=move

see Cookbook:MovePage

?action=PageUrl

see Cookbook:CommentBoxPlus

?action=pageindex

see Cookbook:ListCategories

?action=pdf

see Cookbook:GeneratePDF or Cookbook:PmWiki2PDF

?action=publish

see Cookbook:PublishPDF

?action=purgeqns

see Cookbook:ASCIIMath

?action=pwchange

see Cookbook:UserAuth2

?action=imgtpl

(the imgtpl action is called automatically and should not be called by a link in a wiki page)

?action=createthumb

(the createthumb action is called automatically and should not be called by a link in a wiki page)

?action=mini

(this action is called automatically and should not be called by a link in a wiki page)

?action=purgethumbs

see Cookbook:ThumbList
see Cookbook:Mini

?action=recipecheck

see Cookbook:RecipeCheck

?action=regen

see Cookbook:PageRegenerate

?action=rename

?action=links

see Cookbook:RenamePage

?action=share

?action=unshare

see Cookbook:SharedPages

?action=sitemapaddgroups

?action=sitemapupdate

see Cookbook:Sitemapper

?action=totalcounter

see Cookbook:TotalCounter

?action=trash

?action=untrash

see Cookbook:Trash

?action=webadmin

see Cookbook:WebAdmin

?action=zap

see Cookbook:ZAP