---
name: "expireGititCache"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gitit"
version: "0.15.1.0+dfsg-2+b6"
release: "Debian 12 (Bookworm)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/expireGititCache"
---

# expireGititCache(1)

requests cache expiration for gitit pages

## NAME

expireGititCache - requests cache expiration for gitit pages

## SYNOPSIS

**expireGititCache** *gititUrl* *page1* \[*page2* *...*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**expireGititCache** requests to a **gitit**-powered wiki to expire the cache for specified pages. For example, is *gititUrl* is set to "http://localhost:5001" and *page1* is "Main page.page", then **expireGititCache** execute a POST request to the URL "http://localhost:5001/\_expire/Front page".

## RETURNS

**expireGititCache**'s return status is:

• **0** if the pages' caches were successfully expired or if pages weren't cached in the first place);

• **1** if fewer than two arguments were supplied;

• **3** if the wiki engine responded with something different from 200 OK to the request;

• **5** if *gititUrl* could not be parsed.

## AUTHOR

**Giovanni Mascellani** \<gio@debian.org\>

Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2011 Giovanni Mascellani\

This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.