Question

I'm having the same problem as: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Support/WebTopicCreatorNotWorking

I want to create a new topic in a web. So I click on the "Create New Topic" link in the left bar and fill out the form to create a new topic called TestTopic, it jumps to the Main web and says "Note: This topic does not exist". When I click on the bottom link for 'Create TestTopic' it loops back to WebTopicCreator and repeats the same process. There doesn't seem to be a way to create a new topic using the WebTopicCreator form.

Unlike the previous answer to this question, this is an unmodified install of TWiki 4.1.2.

Environment

-- TWikiGuest - 17 May 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or someone answered one of your questions - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status selector is below the edit box.

What skin are you using? CreateTopic should jump direct to edit after the form is completed; it sounds like your version is jumping to view. Also, do you have write access to that web?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 18 May 2007

Ahh thanks that got me thinking. Mine is jumping straight to view because I had a redirect option in my Apache config. I wanted the root URL address to jump straight to a subweb instead of the Main subweb. So I did something like: RedirectMatch /$ http://address/twiki/bin/view/SubWeb RedirectMatch /twiki(/([A-Z].*)?)?$ http://address/twiki/bin/view$1

Getting rid of that fixed my topic generation problem. Thanks!

-- TWikiGuest - 18 May 2007

Happened to me too. In my case it was an Apache RewriteRule - I was trying to redirect http://server-name to the Main Wiki Home ... first attempt was too generic: RewriteRule /*/$ twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome [R,L] second attempt is checking that the string "/twiki/" does Not appear in path of request: RewriteRule ^(?:(?!/twiki/).)*$\r?\n? twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome [R,L]

-- TWikiGuest - 09 Jul 2007