Managing Webs
Adding, renaming and deleting webs are manual operations done directly on the server
Overview
Managing TWiki webs requires direct access to the installation files on the host server. There are currently no browser-based equivalents of the Rename/move/delete topic tools for working with webs.
Adding a New Web
Adding new webs is quick and easy - you can have a basic web up and running in a couple of minutes:
- Create a new directory under
twiki/data/
, ex: twiki/data/Newweb
- the name has to start with a capital and cannot be a WikiWord
- Copy in the contents of
twiki/data/_default
.
For detailed instructions, see
TWiki Installation Guide: Adding a New Web.
Renaming or Deleting a Web
NOTE: If you plan to rename the TWiki.Main web, remember that TWiki stores user and group topics in
%MAINWEB%
, default named
Main
. That means, every
WikiName signature -
Main.SomeUserName
- points to it and would need updating (unless the variable,
%MAINWEB%.SomeUserName
, is used throughout).
- Prepare your site: Search each web for links to the target web, searching topic text for
Oldwebname.
, including the dot so you'll find references like Oldwebname.SomeTopic
.
- Make changes as required, to
Newwebname.SomeTopic
or better yet, to %MAINWEB%.SomeTopic
.
- Edit the TWikiPreferences topic: Rename or delete the web from the
WIKIWEBLIST
variable.
- Edit the TWikiWebsTable topic: Rename or delete the web from the table.
- Login to the TWiki server, via Telnet or FTP.
- Go to
twiki/data
and rename or remove the web directory.
- Go to
twiki/templates
and rename or remove the web directory if present.
- Go to
twiki/pub
and rename or remove the web directory if present.
--
MikeMannix? - 14 Sep 2001
to top