Question

Will TWiki differentiate between pages that are created in TWiki and pages (*.txt and *.txt,v) that are copied from another installation? For example, will the search work for both these pages equally well ?

Is there any reason why we should copy the raw text from another TWiki installation into the edit window and save rather than just copy the *.txt and *.txt,v files at the operating system level ?

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-- ChengappaCB - 17 Jan 2008

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

Copying files from another installation works fine. There is no difference to creating the file, with the exception that copied files will not trigger mail notification.

Just make sure that the files don't contain access permissions for users missing in your new installation.

-- HaraldJoerg - 17 Jan 2008

Also, be careful of the:

• unix permissions: just to be sure, do a chmod a+rwX on everything you move/copy from other installs
• in the *,txt,v come from a Cairo install, you will have to rcs-unlock them, see: TWikiUpgradeGuide#Copy_your_old_webs_to_new_TWiki

-- ColasNahaboo - 18 Jan 2008

Thank you.

-- ChengappaCB - 18 Jan 2008