• Name: Ian Bygrave
• Email: ian@bygravePLEASENOSPAM.me.uk
• Company Name:
• Company URL:
• Country: United Kingdom
• City: Cambridge
• Hear From:

My Links

• Contributed Plugins
  • FootNotePlugin
  • ExitPlugin
  • InterwikiPreviewPlugin
  • (SnibPlugin Work in Progress.)

• TODO:
  • Migrate my plugins to SVN

Migrating a plugin to SVN

1. Make a SubversionBasedTWikiInstall
2. Use the BuildContrib to make a new plugin with the same name.
3. Copy the content to that plugin.
4. Checkin.
5. ?

Making a SubversionBasedTWikiInstall

My environment:

• Ubuntu Linux 7.10 AMD64
• Apache 2

cd ~/public_html
svn co http://svn.twiki.org/svn/twiki/trunk
ln -s trunk/core twiki
cd twiki
./pseudo-install-twiki.pl `pwd`/data `hostname --fqdn` /~`whoami`/twiki/bin ${MyName}
htpasswd -c data/.htpasswd ${MyName}
cd ~/public_html
sudo chgrp -R www-data trunk
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Browse to http://`hostname --fqdn`/~`whoami`/twiki/bin/configure and fix warnings. Save and set a password.

cd ~/public_html/twiki
./pseudo-install.pl -l default

Browse to http://`hostname --fqdn`/~`whoami`/twiki/bin/view and attempt to register. Fails with You are already registered

Personal Preferences (details in TWikiVariables)

• Show tool-tip topic info on mouse-over of WikiWord links, on or off: (see details in TWikiPreferences)
  • Set LINKTOOLTIPINFO = off
• Horizontal size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXWIDTH = 70
• Vertical size of text edit box:
  • Set EDITBOXHEIGHT = 22
• Style of text edit box. width: 99% for full window width (default), width: auto to disable.
  • Set EDITBOXSTYLE = width: 99%
• Optionally write protect your home page: (set it to your WikiName)
  • Set ALLOWTOPICCHANGE = IanBygrave

Related topics

• ChangePassword
• TWikiPreferences has site-level preferences of TWiki.
• WebPreferences has preferences of the TWiki.Main web.
• TWikiUsers has a list of other TWiki users.